We caught up with GlobalScholar.com CEO Kal Raman who prior to joining GlobalScholar.com, he was the SVP of WW hardlines at amazon.com since Aug 2004. At amazon.com, Kal was in charge of the world wide hardlines business and also in charge of retail technology and online marketing for the entire company.
Kal held variety of jobs at drugstore.com from 1998-2004. He was the CEO of drugstore.com from 2001-04 and also served as COO and CIO.
We asked him the following questions:
Please give us a brief description of GlobalScholar.com?
What promted you to start GlobalScholar.com?
Was it difficult to raise funds for Globalscholar.com?
Your advise to others who are trying to raise funds?
You recently acquired a software company, How does that help globalscholar?
Which company do you look at as competition?
Who or What would you credit with your phenomenal individual success?
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Founded in 2000, MouthShut.com is an User Generated Content Company. It has evolved into an online community where consumers come together to write and read reviews and compare hundreds of products and services. It is also a repository which offers consumers the option of recording and posting video reviews.
WATShow recently met up with Faisal Farooqui, CEO, Moutshut.com, for a little tête-à-tête and asked him a few questions like
Why should brands care about Mouthshut.com?
How is Mouthshut.com different from others in the market?
How did the Rickshaw branding happen?
Are you looking to raise funds? If yes, then how much?
A word of advice for brands to combat negative feedback.
3 pointers for internet start ups in the country.
And finally, here comes the interview with the man himself….
What is the update on Yahoo!’s Mobile Strategy? Monetization Avenues?
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Once again, after a long weekend Siesta, WATShow is back! We caught up with Mr. Rohit Sharma, the COO of Zapak Digital Entertainment Limited.
We tried to get a few insights from Rohit Sharma by questioning him about:
1) Zapak’s Applications on Social Networks
2) Zapak’s movement away from gaming to entertainment and email
3) Future of Zapak Girls
4) In Game Advertising or Subscription Based Revenue – What’s the way forward for Zapak?
Recently Zapak has been in the news for stuff they are doing around Zapak Kids & Bhoothnath, The MTv Roadies, Cartoon Network, and an excusive zone on the Kolkatta Knight Riders Website.
We are back! This time with an exclusive interview with the CEO of one of the biggest mobile VAS companies in India i.e. Mauj Telecom’s Manoj Dawane. Here are the questions we fired at Mr.Dawane:
1) Which are the areas that are still untapped in the VAS (Value Added Services) Market?
2) What is your take on P2P Sharing on Mobiles?
3) What’s your take on Mobile TV and its Future?
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WATShow is back.. Its taken us a bit of time this month to get going with WATShow but nonetheless we are here with another exclusive WATShow!
This time we have featured Manish Agarwal, VP Marketing at Rediff.com to share his thoughts on the following:
1) iShare and its Strategy
2) Local Content
3) Web 2.0
Manish is quite candid on his views about Local content and also slips in a few insights on iShare’s Strategy! Do check out the video below and let us know your thoughts!
After a looong weekend WATShow is back! We caught up with someone who would primarily be associated with the offline media industry but who is well versed with the online video and its potential.
We spoke to Jai Maroo the Director of Shemaroo and posed the following questions to him..
1) Do you think video entertainment is the next big thing online?
2) Do you think Indians will take to the concept of video sharing?
3) How will bandwidth constraints affect the growth of videos online?
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Cleartrip recently got funding of 18.5 Million Dollars but just before they got that we were lucky enough to catch up with Hrush Bhatt for an exclusive interview with WATShow.
We questioned Hrush on the following:
1) What’s the differentiation between Cleartrip and other Online Travel Portals?
2) How important is logistics in online travel business?
3) Why did Cleartrip launch Rail Search?
4) What’s the idea behind the blog?
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