Desi startup spotlight - Slideshare

Looks like I'm late to the Slideshare party, but I'm pretty excited to find it. Slideshare allows you to upload your slides (MS Powerpoint, etc) and share it in slick Flash format. Plus there is all the collaborative/community commenting goodness making it a well executed Web2.0 product.

I forget which desi-oriented blog I originally read this hypothesis on - but desi-techy startups are usually on the backend, delivering systems to be used by other techies i.e. their clients are usually
the IT departments of enterprises. Being more anecdotal than statistical, I've yet to research this; but Slideshare is definitely not of this mold.

Not only is Slideshare a front-and-centre-user-community-web-two-oh company, but the desi executives are neither the CTO nor the CIO.

Slideshare.net

If the rest of you are in Australia because of your techy chops, when are we going to see a desi-Aussie Vinod Khosl(m)a(te)?

 

Submitted by shrimpy on Wed, 06/06/2007 - 22:57.
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shrimpy:

Will postpone the volume comparison (desi tech-startups that are backend vs non), but it is interesting to note that the webmail first-mover, Hotmail, was started by Sabeer Bhatia.

06/06/2007 - 23:06
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shrimpy:

A bit delayed, but not too late. Those interested in listening to Rashmi Sinha (http://www.webdirections.org/program/speakers/#sinha) the founder of Slideshare, can purchase registrations for this month's Web Directions conference for the web industry. Plenty of interesting speakers and workshops: http://www.webdirections.org

09/18/2007 - 12:04
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shrimpy:

Some business-desi-spotting updates from SAJA Forum: http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/09/desi-spotting-t.html

09/20/2007 - 10:51