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Integrand Analytics taps niche Wall Street market out of India
If you have been following the global crisis that began seven years ago, you would have definitely come across the term ‘mortgage backed securities.’ These were the bonds that tumbled when the real...
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YS Quiz: Answers from last week. Did you get Zomato?
It’s been a week since we conducted the YS Quiz and it’s time to announce the winners. So, how many of you got Zomato right? And Xiaomi? Read on for the answers and the interesting nuggets as well. The...
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Clean tech fund Infuse Ventures seeks seed investments in renewables
Infuse Ventures, an early stage clean technology venture fund, is seeking opportunities for seed investment in the renewable energy business. The fund is specifically looking for startups that are...
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Jugaad and growing up with constraints
One of the observations that I made during my stay in Silicon Valley was the absence of Jugaad. Jugaad is a relative term, fellow entrepreneurs in US work hard and do well with bootstrapping just like...
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From disruption to defeat — Aereo files for Bankruptcy
After a long court fight Aereo filed for bankruptcy. This is a classic tussle between the disrupted and the disruptor. Telecoms couldn’t tame the OTT players likes Whatsapp from cannibalizing SMS....
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Ozonetel’s year in review – achieving a scale of $6MM ARR from $1M ARR
Apart from probably e-commerce, the most eventful market seems to be cloud telephony – be it the funding updates, rivalry combats or acquisition rumours. In India, at present, there are lots of players...
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Take the YourStory Quiz: How smart are you?
As the weekend comes we bring you the second version of YourStory quiz. Winners for the last quiz have been announced. This quiz has been prepared in partnership with Walnut Knowledge Solutions. Take...
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[Photo Sparks] Hope, joy and love – what are your expectations this holiday...
In the earlier 30 posts of PhotoSparks, we brought you creative photographs from an art fair, music festival, telecom expo, art museum, mobile showcase, math museum, social hackathon, bookstore,...
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Decoding the hacker attitude, with Shashank Chourey
The story of Shashank Chourey, the millionaire hacker, has been well documented by YourStory. How he dropped out of college, began cracking websites and by 2009 was jobless, without a college degree...
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The Mean Startup #03 :: When someone falls for a startup founder
So have any startup methodologies/terminologies cleverly seeped into your dating/married life? To share, just mail me at themeanstartup@gmail.com or tweet to @TheMeanStartup and I’ll try to comicify...
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‘An entrepreneur’s life is always a continuous journey’ – 25 quotes from...
From mobile business to motivational guidance, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable...
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Doing an internship during your graduation – Why, What, Which and How?
Why internship is really that important? Competition in the job sector is rising exponentially. Securing entry-level jobs is getting harder, as the young candidates lack experience and industry skills....
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TaxiPixi: the underdog Indian taxi company that is making silent waves...
With all the taxi ads and offers flying around us daily, India seems to be saturated with online cab booking services, but it seems otherwise. The action is just hotting up as India’s taxi market...
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[Startup Watchlist] 60 exciting startups. Mapped.
It’s been more than 5 months since we announced the Startup Watchlist newsletter and every Monday, we’ve strived to deliver a bunch of interesting upcoming startups to your inbox. The aim has always...
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With 3.5 million downloads, ixigo’s strategy to unbundle apps is working
ixigo has six apps on Android with 3.5 million app downloads across them. Could they have done better with a single app? ixigo Founder Aloke Bajpai says, ‘No’. Launched in 2007, ixigo is a travel...
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The basics of ‘Employee Stock Options’
In recent weeks, my interaction with start-up entrepreneurs has thrown some light on the lacunae that exists in their minds regarding employee stock options (ESOPs). Here’s hoping this article serves a...
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3 ways ‘sunk cost’ might ruin your business
Think of the last time you went for a Bollywood movie. You spent on tickets, on driving to the multiplex, buying popcorn and settled in for three hours of entertainment. Instead, what you got was a dud...
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After China and Japan Swiftkey turns its sights on India, adds 15 local...
Swiftkey, the most popular keyboard app on Android, has added 15 Indian languages to its service, riding on the localization wave initiated by Google and Facebook. The company had introduced a Japanese...
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[Infographic] Chennai Startup Pulse: 47% startups are profit making
TechSparks is YourStory’s flagship event whose fifth edition we concluded last month (top 30 companies that presented). This multi city event has city editions before going to Bangalore for the Grand...
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Ikea for food: HalfTeaSpoon aims to provide on-demand DIY cooking
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -George Bernard Shaw Cooking and eating delicious food are something everyone loves and cherishes. But with our fast paced lives and busy work...
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