10th Edition of Eureka!, bigger and mightier

Another opportunity knocking for the entrepreneural types - Eureka!08, the Annual IITB Business Plan Competition. In it's 10th anniversary, it's much bigger and grander, with total prize money of Rs. 21 lakhs, and a chance to showcase your brainchild infront of eager VCs and to represent India at the Intel-UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship Challenge.

Eureka is easily one of the largest B-Plan competitions in India and provides a great platform for serious entrepreneurs, easily justified by the many successful comapanies over the past years.

So if you have a plan, or have an idea, better start rolling the midnight coffee sessions to meet the Oct 4th deadline. May the force be with you!

Bhavish

Last week for the AWS Start-Up Challenge

As most of you reading this blog would already know Amazon has an amazing set of Web Services for storage, computing, database and a key value storage service christened S3, EC2, SimpleDB and Dynamo respectively. Since, their launch Amazon's web services wing have had their ups and downs. But nonetheless, AWS proves to be a valuable resource for any startup who wants to get their web product out there quickly and efficiently.

AWS announced an arena for startups leveraging the AWS infrastructure to build their businesses. Well, its the last one week before they stop accepting submissions. So, if you are a startup using the AWS infrastructure, go on and register yourself in the contest. More details of the AWS Start-Up Challenge can be obtained from their CTO Werner Vogels' blog post.

-Prashanth

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Hello, World!

Both Prashanth and I have been blogging in our own little spheres for a while now. So we decided to "synergize" our efforts and interests in computers, technology and startups and start up a new blog. So after a few weeks of deliberation, here it is: desitech.in!

We'll be focusing on the computer industry in India, especially the startup scene in Bangalore (though we hope to cover other major cities soon too). We hope to make it fun, exciting and engaging, with columns on general computer technology, in addition to startup coverage and other articles and exclusives.

We are really excited about this, and I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun!

Bhavish