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e-sammy

This entrepreneur hopes to make it big by targeting small enterprises. Paramesh Banerji, 29, the CEO of indiaisonline.com, has positioned his site as an asp (Application Service-Provider) for the Small & Medium Enterprises (Sammys) segment. For instance, the site has applications for consignment-tracking that companies can use to track their shipments. A site targeted at Indian Sammys, launched by a UK-based academic (Banerji is a advisor to Middlesex University), and promoted by a company (Indiaisonline Inc.) based in New York-that's truly global.

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Virtual Ideas

An idea is all you'll need to make it in the wired economy, right? Wrong. Mere ideas do not a dot.com make. True, there are VCs and angels waiting to turn your dreams into gold, but selling an idea is not exactly a cakewalk. And most VC's prefer to invest in a dot.com that's up and running. So, what do you do? Where do you get started? Whom do you hire? The ability, or the lack of it, to tackle these issues make or break a good idea. bt dot.com presents every e-biz entrepreneurs guide to getting started.

e-ideas

The fizz may have gone out of his life, but the excitement hasn't. Former Cadbury Schweppes CEO Ashok Jain, 42, who confesses to a ''sense of ennui'' after Coke acquired Schweppes, has launched www.ideasnyou.com. The company hosts vortals on popular subjects and doubles up as an e-consultancy. And he has roped in consultant Rama Bijapurkar, Cadbury's C.Y. Pal, and Ambit's Ashok Wadhwa as directors. The first idea at ideasnyou.com seems to be just fine.

e-connections

After 6 years in Public Relations, 2 of which were as Head of Perfect Relations' London office, Kenny Ramanand, 30, has extended his pr expertise on-line by launching webgyor.com, a company that hopes to serve as an e-nabled information exchange between pr agencies, the communication departments of companies and journalists. One of his first moves after quitting Perfect Relations was to hire the agency to publicise Webgyor's cause. That's pr for you.

e-treasure

After 6 years in the Navy, 4 years with TV 18, and 2 years with Mantraonline, Vikas Verma, 37, knows a great idea when he sees one. So, this organisation man has moved into unchartered territory with khuljasimsim.com, which promises the best bargains for a host of products across 6 cities. His domain-name may be unique, but will it catch the customers' fancy?

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