The Indian Startup

Adding your twitter feed to your blog at theindianstartup.com is easy.  Go to your blog’s dashboard and click on the Widgets menu under Appearance.

In the Widgets menu, drag the widget called Twitter into one of your blog’s sidebar boxes.  Add a title and your Twitter user name and click save.  You are good to go.

When you first register at theindianstartup.com, you fill out some basic information fields.  However, to make the most out of the community, you should add as much information as possible to your profiles.  This will help other members find you easily as well as improve your recognition within the community.

• Log into theindianstartup.com
• Hover over the ‘My Account’->’Profile’ menu in the grey bar at the top of every page
• Click on ‘Edit Profile’
• Enter/Update your member profile data
• Click Save Changes

To edit your company profile:

• Browse to the ‘Edit Profile’ page as explained above
• Click on ‘company information’ at the top of the edit screen
• Enter/Update your company data
• Click Save Changes

Change your profile picture:

• Hover over the ‘My Account’->’Profile’ menu in the grey bar at the top of every page
• Click on ‘Change Avatar’
• Click the Browse button to select a picture file
• Click Upload

If you still have any difficulty in editing your profile, please email us at support (at) theindianstartup.com.

Do you already have a company or entrepneurship blog elsewhere? You can transfer your blog with all its content from almost any platform, host it over here for free and benefit from the exposure to our community.

To move a blog:

1. Start a new blog at theindianstartup.com
2. Goto your blog’s dashboard at ‘http://yourblog.theindianstartup.com/wp-admin’
3. Click on the ‘Tools’ tab in the menu
4. Now click on the ‘Import’ tab and you will see a list of supported platforms there
5. Choose your existing blog platform and follow the instructions that follow.

Once you are happy with the import, please delete your old blog posts as search engines penalize duplicate content and it may confuse your readers.  You might want to leave a message on your old blog with a link to your blog at theindianstartup.com

Please email support (at) theindianstartup.com if you have any questions or need assistance with moving your blog.

In the past week, a new album component was added to member profiles.  We hope that members will use this to add pictures of their products, logo,  offices, events and anything else they might want to share with the rest of the community.  Your ‘Album’ can be accesed from your member profile page.

This is the first implementation of the album component.  We hope to gradually release album components for groups as well as well as adding functionality to add videos, documents etc.

Blogs at theindianstartup.com are created Google Analytics ready.  All you have to do is goto your blog’s dashboard.  Goto the Settings menu and you will find a Google Analytics submenu there.  Click on this, paste your account number in the provided box and click update.  Thats it.  This means that you do not have to mess around with the code to track your statistics.  

I was not planning to write this tip so soon but seeing that we already have some blogs up, I thought I would let members know that they can start tracking their statistics.  I will probably update this with a complete tutorial soon but meanwhile, if you have any questions, please contact me in the Feedback group or by PM.