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What do angels expect this year?
Angels, like any other group of people, come with different backgrounds and experiences and thus do not necessarily think alike or have identical expectations. It would, therefore, be presumptuous to...
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What you didn’t know about Elon Musk
Google CEO Larry Page said at a TED Conference earlier this year that he would rather give his billions to Elon Musk than charity. And we are quite sure if this happens, he will use them in a way no...
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Cnetric is enabling brick and mortar SMBs to tap into e-commerce
This article is a part of a 4 part-series sponsored by IBM. The surge in online expenditure globally shows the impact of e-commerce in the retail sector. According to reports, it has been estimated...
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Lenskart raises Rs.135 Cr funding from TPG Growth, TR Capital, shuts down...
Lenskart, the Delhi based e-tailer of prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses and contact lenses, has raised Rs.135 Crore in fresh capital from new and existing investors. Its series C fund-raising is a...
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[Techie Tuesdays] ‘Learning is a lifelong process’: Amitava Ghosh, CTO,...
Last few weeks have been pivotal for Indian cab companies, be it the offline operators or online cab partners. This week we interviewed Amitava Ghosh, CTO at TaxiForSure for our Techie Tuesdays series....
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Purplle raises a Series A round to bring the $9 billion offline grooming...
Beauty and grooming eCommerce platform Purplle has raised over $5 million in its Series A round from IvyCap Ventures (though the company statement didn’t disclose the quantum of funding but YourStory’s...
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5 Common IP mistakes startups make
As it is always said “Prevention is better than cure”, same is with Intellectual Property Laws. If you take certain precautionary steps, you can save yourselves from legal hassles and huge legal costs....
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Is the prize of starting up really worth winning?
The end of an year always presents an opportunity to introspect on several personal and professional aspects. For entrepreneurs it’s an opportunity to step back, to soak in the lessons from the past...
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Commonfloor acquires Bangalore-based Bakfy
Commonfloor has ‘acqui-hired’ the team behind Bakfy, a hyperlocal twitter like application for college campuses. The team of three founders will join Commonfloor as EIRs and will work directly with...
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Giving your ideas a concrete form
Part 3 of the UX series, walking startups through the process of taking an idea from a thought to a concrete prototype This is the last part of the 3 part article on relevance of UX to startups. We...
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How to make your knowledge multiply like money
It is not just the money that compounds. Knowledge also compounds and in much more fantastic ways than money does. Knowledge Pyramid There are multiple stages while one learns – I call this the...
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Stayzilla launches ‘Sell rooms’, an app to enable real-time listing of...
Stayzilla.com, an online marketplace for ‘stays’ launched their B2B mobile app ‘Sell Rooms’ for Android platform. The app focuses on stay partners listed on the portal. Available for free download on...
View ArticleLaws of mobile growth from Kunal Shah: No marketing team, chasing the top 5%...
Okay, there are no ‘laws’ of mobile growth and that is how Kunal Shah, the founder of FreeCharge began his talk at MobileSparks 2014, YourStory’s mobile conference where some of the best discoveries...
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Nine years on, Mast Kalandar targets overseas markets, retail
After taking south India by storm with their north Indian food, Mast Kalandar’s Gaurav Jain and Pallavi Gupta are now looking overseas for expanding their popular chain of eateries. The company is...
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Here’s a platform to help you find the right software for your use case
The number of cloud based solution players in India are increasing and this is further supported by the VC money being put in companies (over $5 billion were invested in 2014). This along with other...
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What an Ex-Yakuza lieutenant taught me about the type of job you should never do
Editor’s note: This post was originally written by Yuki Sakaguchi for Ignition.co, a Japanese online magazine who also covered one of our stories. Why the exchange? Because perspective is beautiful....
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Hike acquires YCombinator company Zip Phone, gears up to launch Free Voice...
Hike, an instant messaging app that was launched in 2012 to ride on the rising messaging wave from India, today announced its first acquisition of a US-based voice-calling company, Zip Phone. This is...
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Fourteen things I learnt doing 14 Hackathons in 2014
Hackathons are a true reflection of human nature: working in teams and competing to deliver something meaningful in a stipulated period of time. They are a gathering of developers, designers and...
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IIM-Ahmedabad incubated WIMWI Foods launches branded Shii’take mushrooms
Shii’take Mushrooms? Well, I hadn’t heard about them before these young entrepreneurs from IIM-Ahmedabad told me over mail. As it turns out, Shii’take mushrooms are a jewel of the oriental cuisine and...
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Google Capital invests in CommonFloor.com, real-estate market in India heats up
CommonFloor.com, India’s leading online real estate platform, announced that it has received a new round of funding from Google Capital. This is Google Capital’s third investment in Asia and only its...
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