Findoye allows you to engage in meaningful conversations with tangible outcomes
Findoye is a thought platform to connect, contribute and collaborate. It is all about doing and achieving something together. It’s a virtual hangout, where you find like-minded people, resources and...
View ArticleDon’t go Uber board
The severity of complying with rules and regulations of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been brought to the fore considering recent revelations as in the case of the taxi service provider Uber’s...
View ArticleCube26 ships Gesture Control Software on 1M+ Devices in 1 Year
Cube26, the makers of gesture technology allows devices to recognise users, interpret human gestures, and understand their emotions. Founded by Saurav Kumar, Aakash Jain and Abhilekh Agarwal, the...
View ArticleStartup city in focus – Pune: 15 startups to watch out from Pune
India has always been a land of entrepreneurs. Just look at all the kirana stores in your neighborhood – small-time, low-risk businesses, but entrepreneurship, no less. In terms of technology and...
View ArticleHow one hospital’s negligent service led to a healthcare startup
The home care industry in India is worth nearly $2-$4 billion, growing 25% annually. By 2025, it is estimated that nearly 20% of the Indian population would be senior citizens, and 70% of those over 65...
View ArticleJunglee sees 34% spate in clicks during 2014 spring/summer season, men’s...
E-commerce in India has come a long way. While we see a lot of action happening as far as online marketplace and etail stores are concerned, aggregation format has also been growing with decent pace...
View ArticleFive things South African tech needs: Adii Pienaar founder of WooThemes
And it’s probably not Bitcoin. In the last couple of years, startups – especially within the tech sector – have (finally) been given a bit more time in the spotlight. I’d say that this has mostly...
View ArticleThe Glitch captures all screens, bets on mobile
Almost three years ago, Yourstory had gate-crashed a party at ‘The Glitch’. From an up and coming production house that catered mainly to the digital platforms with 23 members in the team, they have...
View Article‘Keep marketing for later, first focus on product assortment,’ Vikram Chopra...
We recently caught up with Vikram Chopra, Co-founder of FabFurnish, who was in Bangalore recently, to learn more about FabFurnish. Vikram Chopra and Mehul Agrawal, Co-founders of FabFurnish, started...
View ArticleThe importance of failure in success: a serial entrepreneur’s journey
Srinivasa Raghavan was the quintessential “out-standing” student. “I used to be irregular to school, used to fail my classes, and was always being scolded by my teachers.” A stereotypical slacker,...
View ArticleiMed-S, an app to help you find suitable substitutes for expensive medicines
Whenever we fall ill, most of us follow the same protocol: visit our family doctor or a specialist depending on the ailment, get a prescription from the doctor and then purchase medicines without a...
View ArticleUnable to raise capital, Yebhi halts its marketplace model; pivots to a...
Finally, Yebhi has had to shut down its online marketplace platform. It has now pivoted to being a fashion discovery and redirection site. The new business model will now list products from scores of...
View ArticleStories of heroic teachers and how they are changing the world
Aristotle came steeped in great teaching traditions. His teacher was Plato, who in turn had been tutored by Socrates. Aristotle himself was teacher to Alexander, commonly dubbed as history’s greatest...
View ArticleClipPod is making Google Calendar a collaborative platform
Probably the rat race to be productive is making us more unproductive. How many productivity apps have you installed on your mobile in the past 6-8 months? Are you still in search for the perfect...
View ArticleMessage in a 2 minute bottle
We all love to speak. Most of us do. Well. maybe some of us do. And that “some of us” means most of us, as entrepreneurs. I would say a problem, bigger than the classic entrepreneurial problem of...
View ArticleHow the world’s youngest headmaster, Babar Ali, is helping his students grow
Stories of heroic teachers and how they are changing the world “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves,...
View ArticleOnline Test Preparation startups being built from India
Teachers’ Day is celebrated in appreciation of Teachers but the day on which it is celebrated depends from country to country. In India, the birthdate, 5 September 1888, of the second President of...
View ArticleRevolutionizing Education through Comics – the Octofeb story
When Raghavmurari, a Computer Science engineer, couldn’t figure out basic electronic problems at home which required some concepts he learnt in school he knew he was sitting right in the middle of a...
View ArticleThe compensation paradox
Hiring good people and retaining them is very difficult. Most companies – and many employees – believe that the only way to do this is by continually increasing their compensation. For many companies,...
View ArticleThe Teacher behind the Leader: The exceptional human beings that guided and...
Behind every successful and admirable person is a remarkable teacher the world knows little about. The heroes we discuss here know how they are indebted to the teachers who saw greatness in them,...
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