Paggu interview with Funpiper’s Founder Ajitesh Shukla

Posted by Amitabh Shukla on July 7, 2009 in Interviews

Paggu interview with Funpiper’s Founder Ajitesh Shukla

An interview with Funpiper.com founder Ajitesh Shukla.

Paggu: “How was your weekend?” was your concept. How it got changed?
Ajitesh: funpiper.com has evolved into event & parties portal in last two years solely based on the feedback of the users and what users would like to see. Thus, in the start, the site was primarily a micro-blogging website which asked its users “How was your weekend?”. Then it evolved as a weekend planning portal. And, then it evolved as event & parties planning portal which allowed users to do weekend planning. And, finally today, it covers all aspects of event management, which is PLAN, PROMOTE & BROADCAST

Paggu: How many heads are going into funpiper?
Ajitesh: Currently the team includes three persons. Some contributing full time and others part time.

Paggu: Who are your competitions.
Ajitesh: Direct Competitors include BuzzinTown.com, EventsInIndia.com, Ayojak.com, Kyakare.com etc.

Paggu: How you plan to take up with your competitions?
Ajitesh: By partnering with institutions, event management companies, event managers

Paggu: What are the new features coming up with funpiper?
Ajitesh: Some of the new upcoming features include enhanced widgets, social applications

Paggu: What are funpiper widgets?
Ajitesh: funpiper widgets allow event owner to promote their event on blogs and websites by embedding HTML code. Also, widgets allow event owners to provide a quick means to website/blog visitors to join event easily. These widgets provide quick info on event.

Paggu: What is twitfunr?
Ajitesh: twitfunr is a twitter-based service which is integrated with event planner and lets you do following while you are planning your event:

Paggu: What is your revenue model?
Ajitesh: Subscription and advertisement based model

Paggu: What are your future plans?
Ajitesh: Future plans include signing up with partners to cover their event and provide them with event management solution.

Paggu: Any Suggestions for new Entrepreneurs?
Ajitesh: Don’t lose sight of the vision; Focus on Karma and Have faith! It will definitely work out for you.

Website: Funpiper
Founder: Ajitesh – B.Tech(IIT KGP)/1999/Energy Engg.
About: Event & Parties planning portal which allows users to do weekend planning. It covers all aspects of event management, which is PLAN, PROMOTE & BROADCAST.

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About Amitabh Shukla

I am founder of paggu.com. I am into search engine optimization, wordpress, design & usability. I would love to hear from startups and could be contacted at > paggu at in dot com.

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  1. thanks for covering funpiper.com

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