Author Archives: Jitendra Gupta

5 ways to sell your service to local businesses

Posted on October 2, 2011

Local marketing is hot. With existing services like yellow pages, local ads etc. no longer being effective and with innovations in Mobile and location based technologies, smart entrepreneurs are building services targeting local markets like never before. So if you … Continue reading →

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New post on VentureBeat

Posted on July 12, 2011

Google’s Punchd acquisition to push mobile wallet uptake

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Punchh in 60 seconds – from NRA

Posted on June 12, 2011

Thanks Jaime!!!

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Restaurant Loyalty Programs

Posted on February 17, 2011

New blog post at Punchh Blog: http://blog.punchh.com/2011/02/17/restaurant-loyalty-program/  

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Consolidate and Conquer

Posted on January 31, 2011

New Blog Post at Punchh Blog:   http://blog.punchh.com/2011/01/30/consolidate-and-conquer/

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Google Places – the good, the bad and the ugly

Posted on January 12, 2011

Google places iPhone app was announced today. This is the first rev of something that is likely going to be pretty big. A quick review:   Good: Lots of data, Aggregated feedback (Yelp, CitySearch etc.) Bad: Very basic interface, no … Continue reading →

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Google mobile payment service

Posted on January 5, 2011

Today there was an interesting article in BusinessWeek that confirmed what we were expecting since Eric Schmidt announced support of NFC in the latest revision of Android OS late last year. The article talks about how A single NFC chip … Continue reading →

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Local market upheaval

Posted on January 3, 2011

Local markets have been tough for high-tech companies. If you talk to investors or entrepreneurs, you typically hear a sad story of distribution issues, technology issues, costs etc. What you rarely hear are issues related to value proposition to local … Continue reading →

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OpenTable – ROI?

Posted on November 14, 2010

Great piece by Mark Pastore owner of Incanto, a nice italian place in San Francisco. Mark makes a couple of really important points in his nicely written post: 1. With OpenTable, restaurants no longer own the relationship with customers. This means … Continue reading →

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Google to hand out devices to local businesses

Posted on September 27, 2010

Recently Techcrunch had a piece on Google giving away 8M devices to local businesses to facilitate checkins, reviews and more…Now to be honest, I actually had a little insider info about his coming down the Google pike. Now that I … Continue reading →

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