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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, San...
View ArticleDo you think filing a patent is too costly and time consuming? Follow the...
This is the third article in our series on IP rights for startups, here are the first two: 1) Startups, know your IP rights 2) Infringing on 3rd Party IP rights Are you bootstrapping, with a vision of...
View ArticleBuilding a global B2B startup – Learnings from Krish, founder & CEO of ChargeBee
ChargeBee is a billing platform for your subscription business. Their aim is to assist their clients manage, retain and grow their business. ChargeBee is a Tech30 alumnus that has raised two rounds of...
View ArticleTest your startup knowledge, take this quiz! #tsparks
We’re just a day away from the grand finale of TechSparks 2014 which is the biggest entrepreneurial summit for startups in India. If you still haven’t heard about, you’re living under a rock. As a run...
View ArticleTechSparks 2014 Grand Finale begins today, it’s showtime!
It’s showtime folks! The TechSparks Grande Finale is here at last (17th is the Hackathon and workshops followed by the main conference on the 18th- see agenda). After six weeks and five cities of...
View ArticleThe highlights of Apple’s announcement – slimmer iPad, apple Pay and more
Cupertino, California based Apple Inc. had a product announcements today. Here are the highlights… Apple Pay “Apple Pay is entirely new way to pay in-app and in stores” said Tim Cook on the stage....
View ArticleMicrosoft funds 7 African startups in its second round of 4Afrika initiative...
Earlier this year, we wrote about Microsoft’s 1st round of funding for 5 startups. Microsoft’s 4Afrika initiative was started in 2013 to assist African startups improve their global...
View ArticleCreativity and entrepreneurship: 30 inspiring quotes on innovation
My travels this week took me to the amazing six-day Creative Bangkok 2014 series of workshops, part of a creative activity held in Canada, Spain and Thailand. The participants included a broad mix of...
View Article[Awesome Startup Employee] Naresh Deshaveni of Scale Arc
Naresh Deshaveni is our Awesome Startup Employee. He is nominated by the founder and CTO of Scale Arc, Varun Singh. Naresh’s fascination for technology since childhood earned him the nickname of...
View ArticlePhoto and Vine highlights from the #tsparks #hackathon
We have had the coders blazing away on the first day of the TechSparks 2014 Grand Finale and some amazing work is coming out. The Hackathon is sponsored by Commonfloor, FreeCharge and AWS along with...
View Article5 things an entrepreneur must do to make best out of Business Conferences
Business conferences are the best events for entrepreneurs to meet like-minded people, share each other’s ideas, collaborate with different people with unique talent, and learn immense amount of...
View ArticleQualcomm announces Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, powered by Techstars; to...
The leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies – Qualcomm has announced the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, powered by Techstars, a four-month mentorship-driven startup program aimed to...
View ArticleDay 1 of the TechSparks Grand Finale: Design thinking, brand building and a...
The first day of the TechSparks Grand Finale had workshops covering a wide array of topics from design thinking, to big data and cloud management, and startup metrics and brand building. The rooms were...
View ArticleiKaaz processes 250K transactions every month, plans to foray into B2C...
Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled mobile payment service has been a buzzword over the past one week as Apple is set to release its NFC based mobile payment service, Apple Pay, around the third...
View ArticlePresenting the TechSparks of 2014- Showcase of the top 30 technology startups...
It’s here folks, the most awaited startup list in India – TechSparks of 2014. Brought to you by YourStory, the Tech30 companies are a group of companies selected from hundreds of applications sent in...
View ArticleNandan Nilekani encourages young entrepreneurs, gives his tips for building a...
Nandan Nilekani, Narayan Murthy and co. started up Infosys in the 1980′s when starting up was hardly even a word. They created one of the most successful technology companies from India and drawing...
View ArticleSootano.com an online micro-services startup solving Kenyan unemployment
Say goodbye to billboard ads or newspaper clippings, Morgan Andayi has developed a web-based platform to eradicate unemployment in Kenya. Sootano links a job seller to a job buyer. For example, if a...
View Article‘Think big, it takes the same energy as thinking small’ – Top 30 quotes for...
YourStory’s annual TechSparks conference and showcase of Indian startups reveals not just the Top 30 startups of India, but a wealth of insights and advice from investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs,...
View ArticleFive one-word mantras that every start up entrepreneur should follow, by Ravi...
At TechSparks, we are used to meeting people who have a lot to say. This is especially true when they are giving advice. So, imagine our surprise when Ravi Venkatesan walked up holding a chit of paper...
View ArticleHow to get from the funding stage to the acquisition stage: KlaasOskam shows...
Most technology startups begin with a dream of an IPO or an acquisition. After all, isn’t that what has always made news in the U.S. markets? Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, whose stake sales to the public...
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