Comments on: GupShup, a Twitter-Like Service, Gets $10 Million

By: » Helion’s Ashish Gupta: How I Became An Entrepreneur The Kamla Show - India’s premier podcast about India and the Global Indian » Bangalore, Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Franci

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:41:38 +0000

[...] founders of Junglee eventually lucked out and got money from friends and family with the help of Rakesh Mathur. He has an interesting story to share about how Rakesh got involved with Junglee. Interestingly, [...]

By: Bharat

Bharat — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:12:42 +0000

Om, is this news confirmed. As according to this post http://www.watblog.com/2008/07/07/helionvc-denies-funding-smsgupshup-while-smsgupshup-is-silent-on-the-issue/

it seems that the funding is not done. There are few other micro-blogging services in India as well. http://tagg.in is one of them, its much faster according to my experience.

By: ashim

ashim — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:07:06 +0000

India has a far more reach of mobile (about 250 million mobile-literate as compared to 65 million pc literate). SMS is already being used in India for a lot of utilitarian services like sending climate forecast to farmers and selecting best prices for selling their crops/vegetables.

By: Newly Hatched! « Alt+Tabs of the Mind

Newly Hatched! « Alt+Tabs of the Mind — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:24:30 +0000

[...] you can read about SMSGupShup on GigaOm. However, I do not believe the traffic numbers that SMSGupShup have published and still believe [...]

By: Milward

Milward — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:25:26 +0000

SMS on Gupshup have long delays and sometimes do not reach the designated address.

By: omfut

omfut — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:54:45 +0000

Om, SMS messaging is expensive in North America compared to Asian countries. SMS messages are very cheap in India. That explains why the service has picked up so well. Also, in India they don’t charge you for incoming SMS messages, it’s only for outgoing messages. Any idea on how SMSGupShup is generating revenue. In other words, what is their revenue model? Are they still trying to figure out the revenue model like twitter or they have found one?

By: Nitin Badjatia

Nitin Badjatia — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:45:47 +0000

Sorry, on the previous post, I was pointing to the last paragraph in the VentureBeat post…

By: Nitin Badjatia

Nitin Badjatia — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:43:59 +0000

Om,

I’m sure you caught this story over at VentureBeat, but I’ll link to it for others to read:

http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/19/think-twitters-the-biggest-microblogging-service-take-a-look-at-sms-gupshup/

Pretty amazing how technology is actually enabling regional languages and cultures to stay alive and vibrant.