My startup adventures …
It has been a while since I posted on my blog. 6 months exactly. Yes …I was quite busy with my 2 Startups.
1st one: I have blogged about this in this past. It is obviously Minekey, the startup that I have been incubating out of IIT Kharagpur for a little over a Year now. Past 6 months we have made some good progress and witnessed some interesting twists and turns. Over the last one year, I have been closely working with an academic and research team at IIT Kharagpur to productize and bring to market some of the academic research innovations in the Personalized Search and Recommendations space. By May this year, we had developed an Alpha version of a Personalized News Portal based on this technology. We spent the next 3 months talking to Alpha Users, Potential Investors, Customers, Partners and Analyst. While every one was quite impressed with the technology, usability and the features the product offered; invariably every one suggested that we should look at a potential business model of licensing this technology to Publishers and Content Portals to help them surface most relevant content to every user thereby improving the user experience and maximizing their revenue.We took the feedback quite seriously and went back to the drawing board to develop a Content Surfacing/ Recommendations Web Service that could potentially be used by the Publishers and Content Portals. We’ll be launching the service in early 2007. Good News: We just closed VC funding and the First Customer.
2nd One: >I have finally found some one who I have decided to spend the rest of my life with. Yes …I am getting hitched on December 27th in India at Bangalore. If any of you folks are going to be around in Bangalore and can make it for the wedding, please let me know your address and I’ll send across an invitation. Look forward to seeing you there.Unlike the 1st one, we intend to boot strap this startup all the way through 
and the 2 major share holders are committed to see through all the different phases of evolution of this startup.
I’ll be off to India for business and wedding from Mid December till mid January. Now that these 2 startups are slowly getting off the ground …I am hoping I’ll be able to post more from time to time hopefully in 2007.
Happy Holidays and Wish you all a very happy 2007.
Delip,
congrats to get started on both these ventures. Man it rarely happens to a founder who can time his marriage with the funding.:)
But I know you can do it all
Wish you all the best in your new ventures and new phase of life with Rachana.
Ben
ben
Dec 4, 2006 at 9:06 am
D-Congratulatiosn on both of your happy & successful announcements of engagement and start up funding. Jai Guru Dev, Lee
Lee
Dec 4, 2006 at 11:38 am
Hey Delip,
Many COngratulations on both the start ups.
Wish u and Rachana lots of luck.
JaiGuruDev !!!
Vivek
Dec 4, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Great!!
So what you have been wishing for you finally got…I am so happy for ya..Congrats again!
I’m with Comcast in corporate engg. as Dir. Engg. based out of Philly area. Let’s talk when you get a chance.
Shamim
Shamim Akhtar
Dec 5, 2006 at 8:22 am
Hey Andra – remember me from KGP ‘94???
Congratulations and best of luck!
-Z
Zombie
Dec 29, 2006 at 4:19 am
Congratulations Delip for both of your startups
Ruchit Garg
Jan 2, 2007 at 11:18 am
Vow Delip
Congratulations on getting married.If you remember we worked for some time together in Euclid.I am married and have a kid. More when we talk
Puneet Kakar
Jan 15, 2007 at 5:45 am
Hey Dude
Congratulations on yr second startup.Great job accomplished!!!!If you remember we worked together quite some time back.Lets speak whenever we get a chance
puneet kakar
Jan 16, 2007 at 5:11 am
Hi Dilip,
In case you check this comment, I am looking for reference to present our plan to Vani, NEA, any help will be greatly appreciated.
Bhaskar
Bhaskar Roy, Ex-IIT,KGP
Feb 12, 2007 at 8:49 am
Hi Dilip,
Looking out for your email per our discussion from ealier today.
Thanks,
Matt
mstarr@logicworks.net
Matt Starr
Feb 13, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Congrats, for both the startups !
I’m one of the rather silent readers of your blog. But now, i had to speak up. 
identitycrisis
Apr 19, 2007 at 7:18 am
Congrats for both the startups Dilip.
Raghu
Apr 22, 2007 at 11:56 pm
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