After a long wait, we are launching fan stores of Twitter Celebs at bluegape. We have a long cue at the back and slowly we are taking all of ‘em live within a week.

Here are first four stores that we are taking live today :

Kris Nair : http://bluegape.com/krisnair

Aloke Bajpai : http://bluegape.com/alokebajpai

Mansingh Nepram : http://bluegape.com/mansinghnepram

Arpit Agarwal : http://bluegape.com/arpitagarwal

You can also be celebrity with bluegape. Logon to http://bluegape.com/twittercelebs/

bluegape.com was started with a vision to build India’s Biggest Fan Merchandising store.

People buy merchandise of ‘Brands’ like ‘Coldplay’ ‘Pink Floyd’ ‘Sachin Tendulkar’ ‘Batman’ and the likes whom they follow religiously and are ‘Fan’ of from bluegape fan store.

Now we are taking the brand to the next level.

We are working on big idea and for which we are hiring ‘Content Marketing’ intern at bluegape.

Requirement :

1. Good Writing Skills
2. Finished 2nd or 3rd year of under graduation
3. Should be willing to relocate to Delhi and work from our Office (i.e. : In Naraina Industrial Area, New Delhi)

Write a mail to us at founders@bluegape.com and mention ‘why should we hire you’.

P.S. : This is not a paid intern but we will cover your expenses in Delhi.

bluegape.com was started with a vision to build India’s Biggest Fan Merchandising store.

People buy merchandise of ‘Brands’ like ‘Coldplay’ ‘Pink Floyd’ ‘Sachin Tendulkar’ ‘Batman’ and the likes whom they follow religiously and are ‘Fan’ of from bluegape fan store.

Now we are taking the brand to the next level.

We are working on big idea and for which we need your help.

We would love to know which ‘Brand’ you are a ‘Fan’ of? ‘Brand’ which you follow each and every update of?

Please write to us at founders@bluegape.com with ‘Brands’ you are Fan of, your contact number and we will get back to you.

Cheers,

Team bluegape.com

We have just launched Twitter celebrity @bluegape (Twitter Celeb). You can calculate your twitter score and have your tweets printed on merchandise. Others will buy the merchandise and you get the royalty. Well, not just anyone because you need to cross two filters to become a TwitterCeleb @Bluegape.

1) Your celebrity score should atleast be greater than 200 to start the Fan Store with bluegape (which we counts)

2) The content curation team check the quality of your tweet with respect to possibility of printing on a merchandise.

Go, try it out, see if you’re a Twitter Celeb. We will wait for your feedback.

P.S. : I still tweet @sbaghla

We are glad to inform you all that we have raised a seed round of funding from Aniket Khera, Rahul Bhatia and one more Internet Entrepreneur.

We are trying to become one stop destination for all brands who want to launch their Fan Merchandising in India, be it Mountain Dew with their ‘darr ke aage jeet hai’ tagline or Vodafone with their ‘Zoozoos characters’ or Yashraj Films for their ‘any movie’. We are also speaking to some international brands who want to launch their Fan Merchandising in India.

We will use this money to improve our services. We promise to deliver the best products of your favorite brands

I am one of the biggest Fan of Delhi based venture ‘yourquote’. Because of the Originality of Idea, and the way it was executed ‘initially’. I was following each and every update when ‘yourquote’ was about to launch. I was hoping to see one great Indian Startup making an impact globally through ‘yourquote’.

The day I saw the facebook update of Amol that he has left ‘yourquote’, I was sad to foresee death of a great Indian startup. Few days later when I saw the update of Rishabh that he has also left the venture and joined some company as COO, it was again shocking.

As soon as I realized that Rishabh has almost left ‘yourquote’ as an orphaned baby, I called him to meet immediately. I met Rishabh in Select City walk and gave an acquisition offer with an all cash deal i.e. : multicrores. I am kidding. It was multi lakhs offer, of what I had in bluegape bank account. See, I got ready to take the risk of an all cash deal to buyout such a great startup. Even I paid 10% advance of the deal. I made all the agreement but backed out on the day I have to pay rest of the money after realizing legal complexities that founders have created in last one year. My advance was left with Rishabh. I got criticized in team for wasting 10% of bluegape’s money.

After reading this book, I can give you 10 reasons why ‘yourquote’ failed. What not to do in a startup :

1) Don’t discuss serious matter/criticism over emails. Handle them face to face. First time when one of the founder criticized other over an email that took ‘yourquote’ one step closed to death.

2) Never ever sleep with employee no matter how hot, seductive she is. The day Amol made intimate relation with Shikha that was another step close to death of ‘yourquote’. Employees might sleep with each other but as a founder you have to maintain a feet of distance.

3) Never let relationship take more attention than your startup. After sixth fight with Priya, Amol should have broken up. Relationships are hard and handling two of them at a time is impossible.

4) The day Amol realized that Rishabh is spending more time with Anjali than ‘yourquote’. Amol should have tried to bring Rishabh on track for 15 days and after that firing was the only option. Amol must have fired him right away. I know it sounds terrible but it might have saved ‘yourquote’.

5) CEO, CMO, CTO titles are good for nothing. I felt terrible when Amol and Rishabh were fighting for the Title of CEO. The title should have been given out of respect to other co-founder. These titles are made to be earned with the quality of work.

6) Tech guys deserve lot of respect. Tech guy of ‘yourquote’ had one year left in college but he was the only choice for Amol and Rishabh. When he demanded for 30% shares & instead of that Amol offered him 10%, the deal could have settled at 20%. Letting him go was the biggest mistake. It was pure internet business. Tech guy deserves that.

7) Don’t rush for money, put all the time in building great business. And let the money rush for you. Amol and Rishabh spent more time participating in business plans, elevator pitch sessions than on brainstorming sessions among team.

Internet company with two non-tech founders is not a good idea. Amol and Rishabh both had no clue of coding and scaling an Internet business without tech knowledge in founding team is impossible.

9) Never blame each other for the delay. Try to make things work anyhow. When one investor criticized Amol and Rishabh for no progress in tech side. Rishabh started the blame game. That was the most stupid thing I can imagine in a startup.

10) Startups are tough, cry less, work more !

P.S. : All of ‘em are my personal opinions.

P.P.S. : Few rockstars are building India’s Biggest Fan Merchandising store at bluegape.com

P.P.P.S. : I still tweet @sbaghla

Look at this picture : The Pope is presented a signed Lionel Messi Jersey with a personal message at the Vatican. The Pope, Like Messi, is from Argentina.

Now can you imagine it in India, some big persona presented a Hockey Team Jersey ? When you wear a Jersey of your favorite team or club, it gives a special feel of ownership. Remember how special people feel after holding tricolor merchandise in India v/s Pakistan cricket match ? We ignore fan merchandise in India. Be it sports, movie, brand or anything. Fan Merchandise is not only a great promotional tool but it also opens up a new stream for revenue. Disney alone made $ 37 billion from Fan Merchandise last year.

We are a bunch of rockstars at bluegape.com, who are trying to make Fan Merchandise a new fashion statement in India. Whatever we are doing is unique and different. It will be done for the first time in India on such a massive scale which makes our each day fucking exciting.

In west, even KFC have their Fan Merchandise whether you’re left wing, right wing or somewhere in between

Few brands have already trusted us and we have their Fan Merchandise store at bluegape.com ! If you are a brand and looking to launch Fan Merchandise, get in touch with us at founders@bluegape.com !! Happy Gaping

Do you like music?

Sure, most of the people do. But do you breathe music? Sleep with music? Cry with music? Be happy with music? and Just so in love with music?

Then our musicfellas fan store is the perfect choice for you!

And when we blend the lovers of music the ‘musicfellas‘ and the ‘rockstars’ who are building the India’s biggest Fan Merchandising store. Surely the recipe would bring out something awesome. Yes! The Musicfellas fan store. It’s now live at bluegape!

Check it out at : http://bluegape.com/musicfellas

We have brought the coolest merchandise for the musicfellas fans through which they can flaunt their musical side. Show the music addict in you in style with our coolest range of musicfellas merchandise.

10 symptoms that show you’re a music addict! 

1. You like to sleep while listening to music (and most of the times you fall asleep with your headphones on!)
2. You can spend more than your budget to get the best earphones (and have no regrets!)
3. You love watching music channels more than any other thing on TV (and love to turn up the volume, even if you get scolded by your neighbors)
4. You like to imagine you an your lover in a romantic song (andtotally feel like the actors in that song!)
5. A sad song starts humming in your mind whenever you’re not in a good mood( and you become sadder!)
6. A random song always keeps playing in your mind ( and no matter how hard you try, you just can’t take it off your mind!)
7. You love to listen to your mp3 ringtone( and probably dancing on it!)
8. You love singing along with your favorite song (and most of the times forget how loud you’re becoming)
9. You like to turn up the music to its maximum volume. (and feel like you’re in your own world!)
10. You have at least 2000 songs in your laptop (and you’ve listened to each song at least once!)

Have these symptoms in you? You surely need the music doctor at the bluegape clinic

Get the  fabulous  merchandise of musicfellas exclusively at bluegape.com

Happy Gaping!

Yes, its the Earth Day!  So, its the whole world’s b’day. We at bluegape.com wish you all and to ourselves A very Happy Birthday.

Let’s celebrate this wonderful day dedicated to our land, our home, our mother…..”EARTH”

We at bluegape love the environment, and we put our best efforts to contribute our best in sustaining the beauty of Earth.

We have launched an event to support this wonderful cause: http://bluegape.com/earthday

As the time is passing, we humans are becoming more mean, more self-centered. We don’t even care about what we are doing to our earth which we call as ‘Mother’.

10 things you should ‘RETHINK’ about before doing to your home land….

1. Do you throw all the waste material in your drawing room? Then, why throw garbage on roads? Take a resolution to always throw waste material only in dustbins.
2. Would you like to bathe in a bath tub full of industry chemicals? Then, why pollute rivers with the industry waste? Take a resolution keep our rivers/water resources as clean as possible or at least raise a voice against something happening like that.
3. Would you like to breathe in smoke while sitting comfortably in your room? Then why pollute the fresh air with smoke? Take a resolution to avoid using four wheelers as much as possible, use a bicycle instead.
4. Would you like to have a shower of acid rain? Then, why let our homeland suffer the consequences of acid rain alone? Take a resolution to avoid wasting our energy resources and plant as much trees as possible.
5. Would you like to have a platter of plastic as your meal? Why feed earth with tons of plastic which is degrading the quality of land each day? Take a resolution to avoid using plastic bags and use paper bags instead.
6. Would you like if someone will keep honking a horn in your ears? Then why spread unnecessary noise? Take a resolution to keep the volumes low of your speakers/horns/etc. Let this earth be a peaceful place
7. Don’t you like your drinks filled with ice? Then, why make this earth deprived of ice? Take a resolution to adopt measures to avoid global warming. You won’t like the ice melted in your drink, neither does the earth!
8. Would you like to stay without food for a week? Then, why let a millions of people deprived of food? Take a resolution to avoid wasting food in parties/weddings etc. rather use it for the needy.
9. What would happen if one day you don’t have water drink? There is no life without water. Take a resolution to stop wasting water because every drop is precious.
10. Would you like living without your A.C.? Your car? Your laptop? Your mobile? Remember, nothing is unlimited and everything has an end point. Take a resolution not to waste electricity, fuel and energy sources.

We love environment, we love nature, we love this wonderful planet Earth!

Save Earth because life on any other planet is yet to be discovered Love Earth. Save Earth!

Visit our Earth day gallery at bluegape.com