Comments for Amar Goel http://amargoel.com an Entrepreneur -- founded Komli and PubMatic Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:19:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Indian Startups Can’t Compete Against the Biggies, Can They? by sameer http://amargoel.com/2008/01/19/indian-startups-cant-compete-against-the-biggies-can-they/#comment-479 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:19:14 +0000 http://amargoel.com/2008/01/19/indian-startups-cant-compete-against-the-biggies-can-they/#comment-479 Agreed !

Any startup initially will have tough time against biggies… but ultimately if the idea is great, it will definitely sell !

]]> Comment on Are Portals the new Department Stores? by PB http://amargoel.com/2008/02/25/are-portals-the-new-department-stores/#comment-457 Thu, 28 May 2009 15:36:11 +0000 http://amargoel.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-457 I think most of the bigger portals are aware of this – which is why the stress on trying to compete on the paid search game, or the gobbling up of ad networks. What may work for portals is that they can bring scale to any ad network they start or acquire.

]]> Comment on Indian Startups Can’t Compete Against the Biggies, Can They? by Dhruv Shanker http://amargoel.com/2008/01/19/indian-startups-cant-compete-against-the-biggies-can-they/#comment-455 Fri, 08 May 2009 05:09:48 +0000 http://amargoel.com/2008/01/19/indian-startups-cant-compete-against-the-biggies-can-they/#comment-455 It IS a little harder today for two guys in a Indian garage to make it big, but then again they also have a lot more tools at their disposal now..

India got a bit of a late start on the whole Internet business that’s all.. Who says we cant catch up?

]]> Comment on Are Portals the new Department Stores? by Saurav Patnaik http://amargoel.com/2008/02/25/are-portals-the-new-department-stores/#comment-454 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:00:36 +0000 http://amargoel.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-454 Congratulations on the Pubmatic funding story :)

]]> Comment on Venturing into venture capital? Be ready. by Abhishek Manocha http://amargoel.com/2007/07/12/venturing-into-venture-capital-be-ready/#comment-450 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:26:55 +0000 http://amargoel.com/2007/07/12/venturing-into-venture-capital-be-ready/#comment-450 yeah Amar,

very insightful, looks like really coming from someone who has done that before.

Abhishek Manocha

Houses on rent in Bangalore

]]> Comment on Venturing into venture capital? Be ready. by Charmaine http://amargoel.com/2007/07/12/venturing-into-venture-capital-be-ready/#comment-440 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:20:34 +0000 http://amargoel.com/2007/07/12/venturing-into-venture-capital-be-ready/#comment-440 This was a great post. I’m about to embark on the unknown VC world and needless to say it is very scary. I am an inventor with a baby product and looking for any advice you can give re: funding.

Your realistic purview as to what to expect has certainly given me a moment to pause and to become much more prepared for what to expect. Keep those articles coming… Very Helpful

]]> Comment on Are Portals the new Department Stores? by amargoel http://amargoel.com/2008/02/25/are-portals-the-new-department-stores/#comment-423 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:45:22 +0000 http://amargoel.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-423 I think you are right Shameek, there will be some large generalists, and then specialists focused on a niche. Different advertisers and publishers will have different needs, different audiences, and traffic patterns — so inventory will constantly flow from one to the other.

]]> Comment on Are Portals the new Department Stores? by Shameek http://amargoel.com/2008/02/25/are-portals-the-new-department-stores/#comment-422 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:51:13 +0000 http://amargoel.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-422 On a related note, we might see a parallel evolution in the ad network space – we might see that vertical ad networks come up to be “category killers” – we will probably see one or two biggie general purpose ad networks who slog it out along with vertical specialists for each segment.

]]> Comment on Are Portals the new Department Stores? by Induslady http://amargoel.com/2008/02/25/are-portals-the-new-department-stores/#comment-421 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:28:08 +0000 http://amargoel.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-421 Hello Amar,

Great blog post that solidifies an upcoming trend. In a world where search can bring you the best content instantly, aggregation has no value. In the analogy you mentioned, I think portals situation is worse than department stores. In physical world, moving from store to store to find the best products cost time and money. So, a department store might have a convenience value. In the online world, search does it for you without cost and money. So there is really not much user value in aggregation. Vertical sites that are super-deep with rich content and have a pretty homogenous set of reader base would be the way forward:)

]]> Comment on Are Portals the new Department Stores? by Shameek http://amargoel.com/2008/02/25/are-portals-the-new-department-stores/#comment-420 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:13:06 +0000 http://amargoel.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-420 I think most of the bigger portals are aware of this – which is why the stress on trying to compete on the paid search game, or the gobbling up of ad networks. What may work for portals is that they can bring scale to any ad network they start or acquire.

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