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		<title>All about Proto.in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we get closer to the Bangalore edition of Proto and the excitement builds up for India&#8217;s premier startup event,  here&#8217;s an awesome conceptualization about Proto.in by the folks from Pictualize.

Date : Jan 23-24, 2009
Venue: Nimhans Convention Center
Btw, if you haven&#8217;t already registered, now&#8217;s a good time to do so, go ahead and register now.
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		<link>http://techcruising.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/all-about-protoin/</link>
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		<title>Pitching your startup to VCs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might have already read this, but was pretty good that I wanted to post it on my blog.
Canaan Partners, recently released a slide deck on Slideshare called &#8221; Canaan Entrepreneur Pitchbook&#8221; .
It&#8217;s a workbook style presentation that is intended to help entrepreneurs give the right pitch to VCs and angel investors. If you have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcruising.wordpress.com&blog=915231&post=239&subd=techcruising&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://techcruising.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/pitching-your-startup-to-vcs/</link>
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		<title>Is the entertainment industry recession proof ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Makes me wonder as I look at Yahoo! Buzz &#8211; year in review 2008.  These are the top 10 search terms in Yahoo search.


Britney spears (Music /Entertainment)
WWE (Sports Entertainment)
Barack Obama (Politics)
Miley Cyrus ( Entertainment)
RuneScape (Online gaming entertainment)
Jessica Alba (Movie star / entertainment)
Naruto (Entertainment)
Lindsay Lohan (Movie star / entertainment)
Angelina Jolie (Movie star / entertainment)
American Idol (TV [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcruising.wordpress.com&blog=915231&post=232&subd=techcruising&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://techcruising.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/is-the-entertainment-industry-recession-proof/</link>
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		<title>World Usability Day 2008, Bangalore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
World Usability Day (WUD) is a global initiative of the Usability Professionals’ Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, in November, over 300 events are organized in over 40 countries around the world to raise awareness for the general public, and train professionals in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcruising.wordpress.com&blog=915231&post=229&subd=techcruising&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://techcruising.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/world-usability-day-2008-bangalore/</link>
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		<title>Featured on the Product Management View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure to announce that I will now be guest blogging for the Product Management View &#8211; a blog focussed on product management and strategy , run by world class product managers from various backgrounds and vast experience in this field.I am pleased to be associated with them and look forward to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcruising.wordpress.com&blog=915231&post=227&subd=techcruising&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://techcruising.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/featured-on-the-product-management-view/</link>
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		<title>Understanding the new &#8220;social&#8221; consumer behavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished going through the Consumer experience report, from Razorfish a survey which has documented the online behavior and characteristics of more than 1,000 “connected” consumers on the internet. This was refreshing to read in the midst of all grim news and presentations from VC firms and the layoffs in internet firms.
The Consumer experience [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcruising.wordpress.com&blog=915231&post=219&subd=techcruising&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://techcruising.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/understanding-the-new-social-consumer-behavior/</link>
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		<title>Where your apple taxes go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One for the apple fanboys! Love this one.

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		<link>http://techcruising.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/where-your-apple-taxes-go/</link>
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		<title>Understanding spatial search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So what is spatial search ?
In today&#8217;s context, where the Internet is the starting point for finding any information you need about anything in the world, and of course most of us use Google. The problem with traditional search is that it does not support or have information about the geographical dimension.
Why is spatial search [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcruising.wordpress.com&blog=915231&post=212&subd=techcruising&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://techcruising.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/understanding-spatial-search/</link>
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		<title>FailCamp &#8211; learning from other entrepreneurs about failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FailCamp&#8217;s idea is simple &#8211; get a bunch of inspired people together and enable them to learn from each other and from other entrepreneurs who have battled (or give in to) failure in their startups.
This is a wonderful initiative and I am keenly looking forward to this event in Chennai.

Here are the event details
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		<link>http://techcruising.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/failcamp-learning-from-other-entrepreneurs-about-failure/</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Disruptive Technologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following is Gartner&#8217;s list of Top ten disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012

Multicore and hybrid processors
Virtualisation and fabric computing
Social networks and social software
Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms
Web mashups
User Interface
Ubiquitous computing
Contextual computing
Augmented reality
Semantics

What do you think ?
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		<link>http://techcruising.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/top-ten-disruptive-technologies/</link>
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