Dr. Harald Otto Stricker

Co-founder and managing director

The Ayurvedafinder researches and identifies the best Ayurveda centers in the world and presents them to our users.

Yoga.info is an editorial website for excellent Yoga places worldwide.

Ayurveda is the 5000 years old traditional Indian medicine and knowledge of life. Ayurveda.in helps Indians and foreigners find their suitable Ayurvedic places in India. Our approach is to work in the service of yoga in a not for profit approach.

Yoga.in is the largest directory for Yoga centres in India. The aim of yoga.in is to help Indians and foreigners to find their yoga place in India. The website is simple and easy to understand. Our approach is to work in the service of Yoga in a not for profit approach.

The second book on the topic 'Yoga in India', with has a text part on yoga, interviews around yoga, many yoga excercises from Indian yoga centres and gurus and a strong imagery. The book is published by Irisiana Verlag (publishing group Random House GmbH, Munich).

We travelled through India to more than 30 yoga places. We published and distributed the book 'Yoga in India - a guide to the top 24 yoga places in India' till it was sold out in December 2013.

Director, founding partner and major sharholder at Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. Greynium is owner of the portal oneindia.com and the classifieds website click.in. In beginning 2010 we had on an Internet reach of 6+ million monthly unique visitors, which makes oneindia to one of the top 500 worldwide websites and to one of the top 15 biggest domestic based Indian websites. In April 2010 we sold Greynium to NetCore Solutions Pvt Ltd, Mumbai. Learning: How to do business in India.

Earth.org was a collaboratively written travel guide in a non-for-profit approach (similar to Wikipedia). The vision was to provide free and reliable travel information, which we consider as hard to find in between so much advertising. The team was 100% remotly working from all around the world. In 2010 we decided not to continue with Earth.org - it was a too big task for a fully private funding. Learning: The idea was nice, maybe we should have started with Berlin only, not with our entire planet!

Founder of the Indian classifieds website www.click.in (first named oneindia.in). The aim was to create a simple and easy to use classifieds website for India. It went well, click.in became one of the leading classifieds websites in India. In March 2006 click.in was integrated into Greynium Information Technologies. In 2010 Greynium (and with it www.click.in) was sold to NetCore Solutions Pvt Ltd, one of India’s largest digital communications companies. Learning: Classifieds is a wonderful business.

My most crazy venture: Tried to set up an online auction site like eBay for India, together with Indian partners in Bangalore, South India. At the time of our VC-taks in June 2004 eBay entered into the Indian market and we decided not to continue. Learning: The market for online auctions leads to a natural monopoly (which makes it attractive) - but there is only space for one player, especially if this one is called eBay.

A free lottery with winning chances up to one million German Mark. Lotty.de was originated out of the simple thought that everything in the Internet is for free and everyone wants to have a lot of money. It was also ment to be an antagonist to the powerful German state Lotto. In the end we sold the operating business www.lotty.de and we had to wound up the corporation "lotty Aktiengesellschaft". Learning: The sweepstake business is a business with the data of users.

Education in Banking (Finance and Banking Certificate).

The thesis treated the topic of environmental problems in underdeveloped countries. Title (de): Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Umweltqualität, Verlag: P.C.O.