FYI I am an Indian, but not a fool like you. I can accept the facts.

yes, broadband is main thing lacking in india
not many indian advertisers online and im sure thier pay per click is much lower than US
@10,
products are not low hanging, windows,yahoo! mail, google search, adsense are all products.

Bastards!

Will always want Indians to go after the low hanging fruits. In 5 years world would have moved to the next big thing and Indians will still be chasing low hanging fruits.

India isn’t that different from what the Internet was like for the west in the early 90’s with a bit of difference in regards to knowing what works and technical advancement that already exists in 2008.

One of the problems for native companies is that the elite/middle-class general education/culture is so americanised/english that there’s less of a need to be local.
However, I think if those companies continue going, and raise their profiles locally, and think locally rather than aping what’s worked in the west, when the core population that might not be so enamoured with all things western being “cool” they will find their market.

Also, much like Japan, its likely that their won’t really be pc-web/1.0 and it will jump straight to subsidised/low-cost smart-phones.

People should remember that the original version of the web was released in 1991, it started gaining traction in 1994, gaining money/investment in 1997, and web 2.0 took off in 2006/7, while we’re still early stages for mobile, so its a long road ahead for india, let alone the rest of the world with less advanced communicaton networks -but the advantage they gain is being able to learn from western development and experience, though India is the largest maker of generic pharmaceuticals!

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

THere ar plenty in the busines, what they eed at this stage unlike Valley is the Mentoring and nrturing of ideas, the local market is huge and untapped there hasn’t been any theory or university leasons to trp local markets in INDIA.

India is rich in its culture and diversifying values, but its been used for very diff. reasons, there has been lot of “me too” products within INDIA environment, I do have hopes they run provided they build the local essence.

There have been large use case scenarios,l ike ZOHO which is developed in INDIA but not used within INDIAN market, why not?? its matter of fact they haven’t targeted the right set of users in INDIA

some figures :

INDIA has about 60 million Govt employees, would anyone help them sort there things out, in saying they can make products which helps INDIAn environment??

Always aiming to get the pie out of dollars, need not justify, hope VC’s get lot of clues

there have been many products which are doing well locally, Mike should have a look at bringing Tech Crunch to INDIA.

Sri…
http://www.yulop.com

People are still using 56kbps connection and you can’t surf internet on such low speed leave apart starting a new start up.

r u being serious or sarcastic??

Canaan partners need to do some more research.

As a bit of a political hawk I am big fan of military support for Israel. However, this does not mean I want to see us bleed. We are facing serious economical issues and our future is somewhat uncertain. We need to reinvest in broad set of technologies that help keep America strong. That means investing in US in gamut of areas from everything IT related, to green, nano, and etc.

Instead we seem to help bolster India’s China’s and Israel’s economy through investment and outsourcing. Short term profit thinking is short-sighted.

the mobile market is gangbusters in india and pc’s are still very expensive. imho, real scale for any startup can only come by smart tapping of mobile interaction models and simply translate the web 1.0 ideas.

Perfect.

I hope that Indian tech-startups will start realizing that ’services’ boom won’t last long and they will have to move to creating products through innovation. With TCS/IBM announcing cuts in their workforce, I don’t think other companies will mind following them.

But VCs & Angels focusing on India is a good news!

@1 , I agree with you. I see that most of the startups are mere clones of US startups. Take example of Guruji (copying Google), Yaari (copying Orkut, Facebook etc.)… the list is big, you know!