Our founder, Sahil Parikh, pens down his thoughts on starting businesses and cloud computing tools at PrudentCloud.

Startups are a rage in emerging economies. Look at India, China or Brazil, you will find hundreds of startups sprouting all across the country. It just has become so easy to start and market a web business (even in developing countries) – increased broadband penetration, inexpensive computers, smart-phones, easy access to the Internet, free-for-all social networking tools and above all, the availability of software tools that were either out of the reach of a small business or expensive and cumbersome to setup.

Startups today have no IT infrastructure of their own. They are lean, agile, and small. They work virtually using applications that are hosted in the Cloud. According to Wikipedia, a typical Cloud Computing provider deliver common business applications online which are accessed from another web service or software like a web browser, while the software and data are stored on servers.

You can crank up your startup idea over a weekend and automate every essential function of the business by using services in the Cloud. Here is a blueprint on how to achieve utopia:

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DeskAway was chosen as one of the 10 best Indian web startups of 2009 by Indian Web 2 blog.

DeskAway is one of the best Project Management Tool available online, free as well as paid its one of the first such web start-up from India that made mark on web inspite of already available competitors such as BaseCamp, Collab, Zoho etc.

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Thanks Indian web 2 team!

We are all geared up for 2010 and hope to feature in these lists for next year too!