india.next*

Yahoo! was one of the sponsors of Proto.in conference at Chennai in Jan. It was really motivating to see so many participants who had flown in from across the country to be at the conference. It really is awesome to see firsthand the energy and motivation within our entrepreneurs to build a product ecosystem in India. We are currently at an early phase of building a sustainable and rapidly growing portfolio of product innovators in India.

At proto.in I presented Yahoo's perpectives and experience in innovating and incubation new product concepts (Deck Uploaded). But Harshil Karia from Watblog captured some of the key essence of my talk here.

I can't lay the stress enough on the key points. It applies universally to all product innovators (big or small). Good to keep in mind.

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Hello readers,

It's been a rapid month trying to get the site up and live. It took a lot of volunteering from several folks across Yahoo! to get this finally out and I am loving this opportunity to finally have an outlet for the creative voice from folks over in Yahoo! Bangalore (yblr) & India.

So what is India.Next*? Well many things. For one this is one place where you will find cool creations, hacks [sic] from within yblr and without [sic] in the open (read more about it here and here). Additionally this is our outlet for trying out new products and services we incubate (alpha/beta) and we hope that you will actively consume these as we serve out and give us your critical (positive :-p) feeback. More over time we will be establishing a forum of interaction between our experts, intrapreneurs, leaders and the community (you!) that will foster product innovation in India. I am really excited about all these outcomes that we are planning for and can't wait to get all of this established very quickly. But for all good things there must be some wait.

You ask (rightly so) "The site is up but where is the content!" It's coming as we speak and the site content and structure will change and grow dramatically in the coming weeks. Please stay tuned for more!

I want to thank all the folks in and outside yahoo! who have helped shape this site and the goals we want to achieve.

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