Startup 101

When I was working on my microfinance venture two years ago I realized that I didnt understand some of the basic mechanics on startups. Here are some simple tips for your startup ideas. Feel free to add more relevant links to these webbooks.
How to write a Business Plan
Marketing 101
How to fund your startup

Mashedge and impact on education

Helping Schools Leverage the power of the Internet!

Mashedge allows schools (teachers and students) to string together pieces of knowledge scattered on the internet as web books. It significantly reduces the information overload for its users by channeling large amounts of information in the familiar format of a book. Teachers organize materials as a web book making it available for class notes and assignments. Web books on a particular topic are arranged into book shelves creating a free virtual library for the school, reusable by the next batch of students.

Web book - Math Grade 6

Book Shelf - Math Curriculum 1 through 10

Mashedge book on India's Election

Want to get an inside story on India's election? Curious as to how much it costs to conduct such a massive election? Then read the Mashedge web book on Inside India's Election.

Follow Mashedge on Facebook and Twitter

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Mashedge: Guide to Swine Flu

We have made a book to help readers find the best information online on the swine flu. Check it out at Guide to Swine Flu.

Mashedge: The Story of Twitter: From Its Blogs

We have made a web book called The Story of Twitter: From its Blogs. This book displays the power of Mashedge in making a meaningful web book from content scattered in the blogs.

This is how we made the book:

1. First, we created a private web book with a skeletal outline of its table of contents.
2. We browsed through the blog archives from day 1 and picked articles that were significant and added them to the appropriate chapter.
3. We created new chapters on the fly as and when we needed them.
4. We rearranged the chapters into a meaningful order.
5. We added chapter summary based on the content we added to each chapter.
6. Finally, we made the book public and made it read-only.

The whole exercise took 3-4 hours and the main overhead was in selecting the articles from the archives. Going forward, maintaining the web book is easy. Whenever you come across new information, simply link it in to the book and you are done.

The reason we made it read-only to the public is to guard the integrity of the web book. We intend to transfer the ownership of the web book to Twitter so that they can maintain it going forward.

Any company, or a blogger out there can do the same thing with their content and make it easy for their users/customers to find information about their products.

Mashedge on Twitter

We are now on Twitter! You can follow us on Twitter and get the latest updates on Mashedge wherever you are- instantaneously.