Directi Case Study Competition 2010 on Location Based Social Networking Services

I spent a fun day at the Directi office today, judging the finalists in the Directi Case Study Competition 2010 on location based social networking services.The brief to the business school students was to "explore creative uses of location based soc

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From Bootstrapping To $300M In Value: Meet The Founder Of Directi (TCTV)

When the press gathered to shoot pictures and videos of the likes of Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Niklas Zennstrom (Skype), Chad Hurley (YouTube) and Michael Birch (Bebo) last Thursday when I arrived at my hotel in Dublin, where the F.ounders event was being held, I was surprised to see a fifth man get prompted to be included by the event organizers. Particularly because I didn't recognize who this guy was, and not even his name rang a bell. Over the course of the next few days, I've gotten to know him, and he has a fantastically inspiring story to tell alright: meet Divyank Turakhia, one of India's youngest and most successful pirates - sorry, technology entrepreneurs.

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