VC vs Angel Investor vs Strategic Partner – How do you decide? [Ask Your VC]
Can’t wait to chat with a VC? YourStory presents ‘Ask Your VC’– an opportunity for you to connect with a VC virtually, through a forum of questions and answers. You ask the question, we ‘connect’ you...
View ArticleWhat can Entrepreneurs Learn from Apple’s Secret Weapon
Apple has arguably created or refined and revitalised at least five new categories in a single decade — the iPod, iTunes, the Apple Store, the iPad, and the iPhone; an incredible achievement. There are...
View ArticleWhy did Snapchat turn down $3 billion from Facebook?
Snapchat, for the uninitiated, is a relatively new phone messaging app that has a unique twist – the message self-destructs in 10 seconds or less. The only way someone could save a picture is by...
View Article‘Our 2014 focus will be to get more people make their first online purchase,’...
Snapdeal is one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies in India. Rohit Bansal, Snapdeal’s COO, is the man who built the systems and the engine to keep the massive e-commerce company running...
View ArticleAR Rahman, tujhe salaam
It will be difficult to find someone untouched by A R Rahman’s music. Winner of Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe, and National Awards, the Mozart of Madras has ensured a...
View ArticleWhat will change the game in consumer electronics?
This time too International CES, world’s most exciting Consumer Electronics Show, is sure to unveil a bunch of amazing products. After all, since its debut in 1967 in New York, CES has seen the launch...
View ArticleVMC tech’s flagship product MCube offers cloud telephony solution
Sundeep Misra is the CEO and co-founder of VMC Technologies which delivers a virtual PBX (Private Branch Exchange) ecosystem to enable organizations, their customers and employees to easily connect...
View ArticleSmall town man Anant Patil wants more people to start farming, launches...
Anant Patil has humble and modest roots. He belongs to a small village called Akkimaradi in northern Karnataka. Anant lost his father, who was a farmer, when he was in the seventh grade. After his...
View ArticleBilna.com, Indonesia’s baby products e-commerce store raises funding
Bilna.com, Indonesia’s largest independent online shop for everyday baby products has successfully completed a new round of financing. The funding was raised from existing investors Cyber Agent...
View ArticleMake celebrities your personal guide with Preeta Sukhtankar’s The Label Corp
Preeta Sukhtankar combined all her experiences in media and branding to start a unique e-commerce company, The Label Corp, in India that taps into the expertise of celebrities and aims to build India’s...
View ArticleGrocery e-tailing picks up steam, Unilazer Ventures invests in EkStop
A couple of years back, eCommerce as a whole was the buzz and it seemed as if investors were ready to fund any eCommerce company that came their way. The hype fizzled away and now the market is seeing...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs: The Dark Knights of the eternal sunshine
Entrepreneurs are generally perceived as insane risk-takers; a surreal combination of Wolverine and Batman; aggressive yet calm, intuitive yet rational and reckless yet brave. Entrepreneurs are...
View ArticleCadabams’ Anunitha, an entrepreneurial venture into de-addiction in Bangalore
The Cadabam Group recently launched Anunitha, Centre for Alcohol & Drug De-addiction. YourStory caught up with Sandesh R Cadabams, Director, Cadabams’ Group, to discuss about this...
View ArticleChildren rule at Timbuktoo, a startup for young authors
Aparna Raman Timbuktoo Young Authors Publishing is a 2013-born publishing house operating on a ‘by kids, for kids’ platform. Timbuktoo publishes stories or any creative expression, created by children...
View ArticleRemain productive in 2014 with ‘Limitless’– a productivity app
Limitless is a productivity app for chrome which helps to increase online productivity by identifying sites which distract people. The app was created by Zingfin, a data analytics company based out of...
View Article[Techie Tuesdays] Yuvi Panda – Coder, Rebel and Not a Zombie
Yuvi Panda Yuvraj Pandian or Yuvi Panda as he is known, gave a TEDx talk on how not to be a zombie while he was in college. A rebel by attitude, Yuvi’s story is a perfect example of someone who...
View ArticleStartups and entrepreneurs shine at 2014 International CES
The 2014 International CES aims to showcase the global startup community which represents the promise, power and future of technology. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) on Tuesday announced...
View ArticleGE acquire strategic assets from Thermo Fisher Scientific for $1.06 billion
GE and Thermo Fisher Scientific entered into an agreement for GE Healthcare to acquire Thermo Fisher’s HyClone™ cell culture media and sera, and gene modulation and magnetic beads businesses for...
View Article5 promising Mumbai based startups that’ll bloom in 2014
Lists are the flavour of the season and while we’re at it, here comes another one with focus on startups which are likely to make news in 2014. Some of these are in stealth while some of them have been...
View ArticleFacebook confirms acquisition of Indian startup Little Eye Labs
Today, Facebook officially confirmed the acquisition of their first Indian startup Little Eye Labs. With this acquisition, Little Eye Labs will join forces with Facebook to take its mobile development...
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