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How three IITians launched Holidify to discover little known places
During their college days at IIT-Bombay, Kovid Kapoor, Rohit Shroff, and Prateek Chauhan were always on the lookout for weekend holiday destinations. Their friends too scouted for little known places...
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[Techie Tuesdays] Roundup – Techies who inspired us
We feel writing about interesting technologists is one of the best jobs in the world. In the last two months, we have profiled eight brilliant minds, some of whom were quite young, while some did not...
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Hitachi acquires Prizm Payments – one of India’s fast growing payment...
Hitachi, the US$80+ billion Japanese engineering and electronics conglomerate has today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Prizm Payment Services Pvt Ltd., one of India’s fast...
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The REPL story of real estate consulting
REPL (Rudrabhishek Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.) is a consultancy firm that provides solutions related to architecture, planning, geographical information systems, engineering, strategic, consultancy and...
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Courseeplus: Connecting knowledge providers with seekers
In 2012, Chidambaresan Ananthan, an alumnus of National Engineering College, and his three friends – Ponprakash Ponnusamy, Ponkumaresh Jothi and Kathiravan Dhanapathy — were on the lookout for a few...
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Technology and Entrepreneurship: Two new books identify opportunities for...
Two new books describe opportunities and strategies for startups, with particular emphasis on the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India. Parthajeet Sarma (Smart Phones, Dumb People?) and Vineet Bajpai...
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MTolls – trying to make toll plazas and parking lots smarter and the...
Let’s say you have to catch a flight and you are driving down to the airport. More often than not, you will not factor the time it takes to cross the toll plazas, to pay at the parking lots and the...
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2013, the year of Enterprise software startups. Was it?
At the beginning of the year, we came up with a prediction for 2013 saying that it is going to be the year of enterprise software startups. Gartner projected the enterprise application software to grow...
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Pearson and Village Capital invest $150k in Experifun and Sudiksha Knowledge...
The Pearson Affordable Learning Fund and Village Capital initiated a campaign earlier in July via which they were two invest $150,000 in Indian education companies (Pearson launched the Affordable...
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How to build your brand the Prasoon Joshi way
Prasoon Joshi An ambassador of creativity and storytelling, Prasoon Joshi’s journey from Almora in Uttarakhand to Mumbai the city of dreams, has lessons for everyone. He has done more than justice to...
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A hotelier ventures into office supplies e-commerce with Zoffio
Abhishek Kamani hails from a family with a strong business background that goes back many generations. He oversees the India operations of The Zuri Group Global, the parent company of Zuri Hotels. This...
View ArticleBinny Bansal, co-founder of Flipkart in conversation with Shradha Sharma at...
Flipkart, the poster company of Indian ecommerce, had a very humble beginning. The company started in 2009 from a two-bedroom apartment and is now valued at $1.6 billion. Binny Bansal, one of the...
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‘Think Places’ with a travel expert to plan a personalized & palatable trip
Krishna Teja, a computer science graduate from University of Toronto, went on a backpacking trip to Europe in 2011. While, the trip was quite enjoyable for him, the planning wasn’t much of a good...
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From 15 to 500+ clients in 18 months: Tracking Zaakpay’s growth
Upasana Taku Zaakpay is an NCR based company in the business of making online payments easier in India. The company was founded by Upasana Taku back in 2011 and has been venture backed by Sequoia...
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A marketplace for grey and blue-collared jobs: Nanojobs
We have several online platforms that help job-seekers find white collar jobs. But when it comes to blue and grey-collared jobs such as plumbing, driving, carpentry and so on, there have been just a...
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LeadEnrich, a B2B marketing data management platform from QEDbaton founders
Conceptualized by B2B marketing experts with extensive experience and backed by QEDbaton, LeadEnrich is a full service marketing data management platform, providing cutting-edge solutions to enable...
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Announcing third EduStar of 2013 – Focus Academy for Career Enhancement (FACE)
The EduStars 2013 finale is just 10 days away and we’ve been incredibly busy, going through the large number of startup applications that we received. While so much is said about the sorry state of the...
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Now mystery shop through Red Quanta phone app
If you love shopping, what can be better than getting paid back for the shopping you do? While this is not possible in everyday life, such a possibility exists if you are a Mystery Shopper – where the...
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Is there anybody out there, listening to the machines? Yes, Flutura
On 20 April 2010, when half the world was asleep, an underwater rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico: the infamous Macondo blowout. BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burnt, sank and leaked 4.9 million...
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Two sisters take their legacy of travel and winter wear ahead with Prrems
In 1970, an Indian lady traveled to the US on a whim. It was only after she reached there that she realized she didn’t have enough money on her. In a foreign land without any aid at hand, she somehow...
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