Though most would agree with me on that we have outgrown shopping cart based shopping engines or auction engines and even local deals in 100 indian languages, many more would yet not agree that the foodie revolution online and local directories from reccomendations to home delivery are also outgrown, Crest carrying now available statistics ont he sub sector with $13 million investment probably counting 13,000 such websites.

However those in business before Jungle e would get an advantage from the 9 mln odd shoppers Walready on the internet and the quadrupling of this population in the next 3-4 yearsas people struggle with double shifts to keep their new jobs.

What is not done yet and is getting a lot of attention is the Homework and competitive exam business which can also find roaring supporters online, it being very difficult to find enough real estate in 2000 cities to spread out physically and it being an opportunity to serve the O levels and the K levels across US and Europe. But Digital boundaries are unlikely to suffice and entrepreneurs need to have the licence to bring the best of Global collaborations in the Indian Education/ knowledge sector to the country

 Most of the other 95% web based efforts not being booted or started up would be busy providing increasingly free and self serving services like techncal hosting, maintenance and CRM services to social media marketing and it will be a t least 10 years wbefore these occupations morph into Ford Model T models to be mass produced commercially, till then part of the back bone you and I need online.

Posted via email from The India Investment Post