Bhopal youngster gets 10,000+ people to sell their waste via TheKabadiwala.com
Anurag Asati is an IT engineer who hails from Bhopal and knew at the onset that he wanted to create some impact in the world with the skills he had. It all started one day when Anurag was asked to get...
View ArticleBook2look.com helps you find all about books and buy them online
Technology has brought tectonic shifts in the way books are discovered and distributed. The traditional print books have given way to electronic books (e-books) that can be read on e-book readers,...
View ArticleAcumen and Grameen Foundation study poverty rates and impact of Ziqitza...
We live in a country where pizza arrives at our doorsteps faster than ambulances. Mumbai and other cities in India lack reliable ambulance or emergency medical response services. To get to the...
View ArticleHow a one-man startup from India got into Y-Combinator Summer Batch of 2014
In March this year, we wrote about mobile app Aawaz. It enables you to call friends and family for free which makes the cellular network redundant, and roaming an obsolete concept. Since then it has...
View ArticleZomato makes its fourth overseas acquisition, nabs Poland based Gastronauci.pl
Zomato the fast growing restaurant discovery service from India has announced that it has has acquired Gastronauci, Poland’s leading restaurant search service. The online and mobile restaurant search...
View Article[Awesome Startup Employee] Alex Kudientsov of Teabox – pushing the standards...
India’s e-commerce industry is in a state of frenzy with Flipkart raising $1 billion in funding, Snapdeal raising strategic investment from Ratan Tata to Amazon setting up a $2 billion India specific...
View Article[Techie Tuesdays] Ravi Suhag – From helping his dad in farms to winning...
Hackathons aren’t special for Techies, but what makes them special for Ravi Suhag is that he almost lives off them- Winning them has become a habit for him. Born and brought up in a small village in...
View ArticleVWO acquires Concept Feedback : Now get feedback from a vast community of UX...
The Indian bootstrapped poster-boy startup, Wingify (VWO) has acquired a leading US based web design and user experience community startup, Concept Feedback to provide additional assistance to their...
View ArticleRiding on a Sunbeam: How one engineer turned neuroscientist is on a mission...
What do you do after getting a bachelors in engineering, a masters in biophysics and computational biology and yet another masters in neuroscience from one of the most prestigious universities in the...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Bank India announces four deals they made this quarter
SVB India Finance provides specialty debt products to early and growth-stage, VC-backed companies in India. SVB India kick started operations towards the end of 2008 with their first client- Prizm...
View ArticleWhat I learnt about early stage investing while playing Texas Hold’em
There are times in a person’s life when in the midst of something totally unrelated you figure out an answer to things that has been playing in the subconscious for weeks, months or even decades....
View ArticleTop 10 reasons why startups fail
Startup culture is growing rapidly in India with startups coming up all over the country. Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai remain the key startup hubs but other areas like Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, etc....
View ArticleThe oracle of Larry Ellison: stuff legends are made of
‘The Difference between God and Larry Ellison’, this was what Mike Wilson, the official biographer of Larry Ellison, titled his biography. And he was not wrong. Larry Ellison is a larger-than-life...
View ArticleCommonFloor raises $30 million Series E funding from Tiger Global
Realty portal CommonFloor.com has raised its Series E capital from Tiger Global. Tiger Global was already on the board of the company through previous rounds. The firm has raised Series B from Accel...
View ArticleUmati: Kenyan platform to fight online hate speech with NLP and Machine...
How free is the freedom of speech? Freedom can only exit as long as it is not obstructing another’s freedom. Freedom of expression is a necessary condition of our civic and democratic society....
View ArticleHow not to get stuck in a college you hate? Use Univariety
Ever felt you were made for a different college? Looked around your campus, and thought, ‘Why am I even here?’ Jaideep Gupta understands these questions better than anyone else. Gupta’s journey into...
View ArticleDirecti founder launches Flock: aims to be the WhatsApp for official purposes
Bhavin Turakhia founded Directi, a prominent domain registrar that was acquired by Endurance International earlier this year for a hefty sum. Branching out from that business, one of the things Bhavin...
View Articleicliniq targets online doctor consultation space
Like a lot of travelling executives, Dhruv Kumar would sometimes feel the need to consult a doctor. However, it was difficult to find a reliable doctor and post a query online. “I came across yahoo...
View ArticleWant weekends off? Work your ass off first!
Let’s play a game. Call three of your best friends and ask them, “ Hey buddy, where do you see yourself in the next five years? ” They will tell you about their dreams, their ambitions and the things...
View ArticleHow SmartPlay Technologies thrived in the semiconductor industry during...
SmartPlay Technologies is an established design services company with expertise in digital, analog, wireless software and system design. With design centers in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Noida,...
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