Sunday, September 7, 2008

Hottest Start ups - IV - BlogVani.com

Entrepreneur's Details
Name Cyril Gupta
Age 28
Hometown New Delhi
Family background Business
More than 1 company? No
Education High School
Graduated from National Open School
Former employer PublicSoft India
Former designation Chief Software Developer
Area of responsibility Software Developer
Favorite book/movie


Business description

Blogvani.com has quickly emerged as India's most popular haunt for Hindi bloggers, and readers of Hindi blogs. From a content presenter, it is evolving into a community which brings together now thousands, and later lakhs of hindi language internet users.

The website is considered the face of Hindi blogging and has been covered regularly in many leading national newspapers and journals. In this first phase Blogvani.com has platforms for Hindi & Marathi bloggers. By the year's end, it will be available in all leading Indian languages, and in English!

By The Numbers Show/Hide
2006 2007
No. of employees 0-5 0-5
No. of locations 0-1 0-1
No. of customers over 50 over 50
Turnover Under 10 lacs Under 10 lacs
Profits preprofit preprofit
Primary source of initial funding Personal savings
Primary source of additional funding Personal savings
Raised institutional capital? No

Stranger in a strange land - R A Heinlein


How does the business make money?

We plan to introduce a shopping portal in our website and use our 1600 strong blogger network to advertise, bloggers will be given a commission against sales.

Team information
M S Gupta, Co-Founder


Competition Show/Hide
Competitors No competitors who can compete
How different if your product or service? It has... Substitutes that differ in function
In what way is your product or service different? It's the leader in its segment so far


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