I have to say today arriving in Dehli we definitely saw the other side of India. A white Rolls Royce was parked outside our new hotel, which is absolutely stunning. Kind of wasted when you are here by yourself on Valentine’s Day but it’s definitely a beautiful place. Wednesday morning Sourav (our Indian business partner) [...]

Starting Up with Wipro (John Wakeman, OmPrompt)

John Wakeman presents OmPrompt Day three of this fabulous Web Mission saw all of the 15 companies pitch their innovative businesses to the ‘Global Director of External Innovations and Head of Start up Relations’ for the 150,000 person global behemoth that is Wipro. How does a Company of 150K people innovate? Well, we were told [...]

Grant Grafton (Sub10 Systems) catches up after the British High Commission/Yourstory.in event

Grant Grafton presents Sub10 Systems After 2 really intensive days of activity and suffering from lack of sleep (we were on a bus to Akshaya Kitchen at 0600 and hadn’t got to bed until 0100 that morning!), the news that we were off to an event hosted jointly by the British Deputy High Commissioner and [...]

Where are we going here? (Martin Brassell, Inngot)

In Bangalore, this is a frequent question, often asked when travelling in the back of a tuk-tuk, threading your way at implausible speeds through inadequate gaps. But it also seems quite an apt question to ask about the city’s situation in general. We know there is tremendous growth going on here. Yet to Western eyes, [...]

Gravity fed kitchens: Visiting Akshaya Patra (Mark Rock, Audioboo)

Mark Rock presents Audioboo Ltd When you arrive in Bangalore from the UK at 5am on a Sunday morning and then agree to get up at 6am on the Tuesday after a very full Monday, it has to be for something special. And it was. Today, the Web Mission made an inspiring visit to one [...]

Monday Diary from Ben Barton (Zondle)

Infosys We started the day visiting Infosys’ Electronic City campus (about 1hour from the centre of Bangalore). They are an inspiration to everyone who wants to create something really important in a market. $7bn revenues, 155k employees and it all started with 7 guys and $250. We met Kris Gopalakrishnan (Co-Founder) and CN Raghupathi (VP [...]

Monday Diary from Bruce Hellman (uMotif)

A short update today, as it’s 12.10am and the bus leaves at 6am to the Akshaya Patra Kitchen, a Harvard Business School case study for low cost scalable innovation, feeding 1m children per day! Morning Fellow Web Mission company pitches – there may be potential for us to work with Stream Communications who provide communication networks, Omnisoft who [...]

Big or Small – We All Need to Sell Business Outcomes (Justin Butler, Ambiental)

Justin Butler presents Ambiental Web Mission’s visit to Infosys today was both inspiring and unnerving. Inspiring in that a group of 7 Indian entrepreneurs, with $250 of seed capital in 1981 have succeeded in building a multi billion dollar corporation that has enriched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in India and around [...]

Powered by Intellect (Martin Brassell, Inngot)

Martin Brassell presents Inngot The first thing that hits you when you walk into the beautifully appointed conference facility at Infosys is their slogan, writ large across 21 plasma screens: ‘Powered by intellect – driven by values’. It’s an apt choice of words, because there’s no doubt that for this world-class IT services provider, turning [...]

School Life in Bangalore (Andrew Cuthbert, Omnisoft)

Having visited many schools round the world from Rio de Janero, to Rwanda and areas round the UK. I had the pleasure of visiting a small private school in Bangalore after being invited by Daniel Oxenhandler who had formerly taught in Spain and now with Idex fellows, and accompanied by Ben Barton from Zondle again [...]

Tuk-Tuk-ing through Bangalore

Mark Rock (Audioboo) describes his first ride in one of India’s iconic tuk-tuks

“Like, Love then Respect” – Ben Barton (Zondle) reports on Sunday

Ben Barton presents Zondle We arrived at 5am and got a bus to the hotel for breakfast. Bangalore is a big, busy place, but the food is lovely (curry for Breakfast) We then went straight into work, with introductions from the team looking after us here and some some amazing insights from ‘SG’ the guy [...]

Andrew Cuthbert (Omnisoft) reflects on Sunday in Bangalore

Andrew Cuthbert presents Omnisoft Services We landed in Bangalore at round 5.00am Bangalore time. It was a great first day – I met up with Saurav our partner here and discovered that our revenue model is very valid here. This was a great reinforcement of the project. The Mission gave us an opportunity to meet [...]

“Zig when others Zag” – Mark Rock talks to SG (Celsius 100)

Listen to ‘Zig when others Zag – SG on Web Mission’ on Audioboo

Bruce Hellman (uMotif) shares his objectives for Web Mission 2013

Bruce Hellman presents uMotif As many of you know, uMotif was selected to join another UK Government-backed Trade Mission, following the successful Future Health Mission to Boston last year. I’m now on the Web Mission and in Bangalore! I thought I’d share my objectives for the trip: To develop a better understanding of the Indian healthcare [...]

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