Gunjan Doshi

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Heavy vs. Light Users

May 19th, 2009 No Comments

The Digital Future study found very large differences between the online hours of heavy users and light users. Light users spent an average of 2.8 hours per week online, compared to heavy users who average 42 hours a week online.
Internet Non-Users: Reasons for Not Being Online? — The most common reason for not using [...]

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Mobile Ad Spend

May 19th, 2009 No Comments

mobile advertising market is expected to rise to $16.2 billion in 2011 up from $1.5 billion in 2006 Source: Yahoo

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Halal foods - an $632 billion market segment

May 17th, 2009 No Comments

the halal food market has exploded in the past decade and is now worth an estimated $632 billion annually, according to the Halal Journal, a Kuala Lumpur-based magazine. That is about 16% of the entire global food industry. Throw in the fast-growing Islam-friendly finance sector and the myriad other products and services — cosmetics, real [...]

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A huge untapped market - 70% of businesses do not have a website?

May 17th, 2009 No Comments

Nearly 70% of small businesses don’t have Web sites, says an annual survey by Verizon Communications. The USA’s 5.6 million small employers are the nation’s economic engine, producing a majority of new jobs and often leading the nation into economic recovery.Source

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1000 startups fail for every one successful one. Really?

May 17th, 2009 No Comments

Any idea what the ratio is between the Googles and Facebooks and other startups? Know how many companies fail every year in Silicon Valley? Anybody want to guess? Do you know what the ratio is? I’m sorry? Over a thousand to one. Now, one of the nice things about human nature is every one of [...]

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A dying industry - Land Telephone Lines?

May 15th, 2009 No Comments

More than one of every five American homes (20.2%) had only wireless telephones (also known as cellular telephones, cell phones, or mobile phones) during the second half of 2008, an increase of 2.7 percentage points since the first half of 2008.Another Dying Industry - Land Telephone Lines.

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Social Media really? Power of few!

May 11th, 2009 No Comments

Of the 215,000 video channels on Kyte, nearly all are created by consumers, but only about 1,000 account for more than 90 percent of the mobile videos streamed via the service. And those 1,000 channels are invariably the work of professionals or the cell-phone videos of famous people such as musicians Lady Gaga (iTunes link) [...]

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Youtube - a $470 million headache for Google?

April 29th, 2009 No Comments

YouTube, which reportedly loses $470 million a year, has to make money somehow, said Douglas MacMillan in BusinessWeek, and advertisers have been “squeamish” about hawking their products next to “unsavory, user-generated videos.” Hulu, with its roster of new shows, has been an advertising success—and that’s why studios are being stingier with YouTube.”YouTube takes on Hulu [...]

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Startups more than a weekend activity?

April 29th, 2009 No Comments

only 12 out of the 116 startups (approximately 10 percent) launched after Startup Weekends held from July 2007 to April 2009 can still be considered active, and 35 out of the bunch (approx. 30 percent) are currently offline. Most of the projects carry the ‘idle’ status, which means there have been no visible changes to [...]

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A 3 Year, 5000 mile horse ride - following your passion!

April 19th, 2009 No Comments

A middle-aged British woman and two Chinese companions on Saturday set off on an epic horse ride that will see them cross China, Central Asia and Europe; and arrive in London for the 2012 Olympics. Megan Lewis, a 60-year-old British pony breeder and head of the expedition, said the three-year trek from Beijing to London [...]

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