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You may have got many an insight from top industry leaders as well as those behind India’s recent startup success stories during the course of the last year. Now, as 2015 gets under way, it is time to...
View ArticleHow technology will eat medicine
The most significant announcement that Apple made in 2014 wasn’t a larger-sized iPhone. It was that Apple is entering the health-care industry. With HealthKit, it is building an iTunes-like platform...
View ArticleBringing eBooks to the Indian vernacular reader
All of us grew up reading books in our native languages. We all started to speak in our mother tongue before learning English at school. Unfortunately as we grow up, we either stop reading books or we...
View ArticleElon Musk’s SpaceX confirms $1 Billion in new funding from Google and Fidelity
Larry Page, CoFounder of Google was recently quoted saying, “I would rather give my Billions to Elon Musk than charity.” Page’s reasoning was that Musk’s aspiration to send humans to Mars “to back up...
View ArticleAnalysing the Singapore lure for startups
Less than 6,000 km away from India, there is the small island country of Singapore with a population less than Bangalore but a startup ecosystem that has been rated as the best in Asia and seventh in...
View ArticleHow much does it cost to build an awesome office? A startup experience
Recently we shared how we successfully raised $632k in our first round of funding. Continuing in the same vein we reveal how we went about setting up our new office. Right from the choice of the...
View ArticleNow you can access WhatsApp on your web browser too
WhatsApp has launched its most anticipated web-based chat client. Now, WhatsApp-for-web can be used on desktop by Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry users. In a time of testing, the WhatsApp Web...
View ArticleIf you’re a Zomato fan, here’s what you should know (about Yelp)
Indian startup enthusiasts across the globe went into a frenzy when Zomato, the popular restaurant discovery service, announced the acquisition of San Francisco based UrbanSpoon. Headlines splashed...
View ArticleCopyright infringement – a startup killer
Most businesses are interlinked in some way or the other. Many startups may form companies based on existing businesses or existing products, but involving some unique business models or business...
View ArticleThe Indian startup scene is growing fast. Here’s why
When I graduated from IIT Bombay in 2008, turning down a job to do a startup was serious career suicide. Being poor for years, disownment by your parents and a significant decrease of market value in...
View Article‘Tap, tap, food’ with this mobile-only on-demand ‘food court’ app, TapCibo
“People are looking for food. Can we give them food?” says Shashaank Shekhar Singhal about Tapcibo and it almost seems as if he’s oversimplifying it. But that is precisely what Tapcibo has been about,...
View ArticleHighlights of Microsoft Windows 10 launch event
Microsoft recently unveiled the next generation of its operating system, ‘Windows 10′ at their Redmond campus, and gave potential users an idea about how it would work across devices of various form...
View ArticleFacebook’s economic effect on India and the world
The world’s largest social network, Facebook, says it was responsible for creating 4.5 million jobs in 2014. The Facebook commissioned Deloitte report claims Facebook added $227 billion to the world’s...
View ArticleHealthcare startup Hindustan Wellness goes from 0 to 16,000 customers in 15...
Footing hospital bills usually causes a major dent in an individual financial status in case he/she doesn’t have health/medical insurance. Negligence (on the patient’s side) and lack of preventive care...
View ArticleBig data startup Corporate360 raises $200K funding, plans global expansion
Singapore headquartered big data startup Corporate360 has raised $200,000 in angel funding from seed investors that will be used to launch a new marketing data product & expand their data science...
View ArticleWe aren’t in an Android bubble, we’re just innovating!
On Tuesday, January 20th, Amir Efrati posted a very interesting article on whether we are in the middle of an Android bubble of sorts. There are two major questions raised in the article: Are these...
View ArticleHow to predict WhatsApp features
image credit: Shutter Stock Editor’s note: Yesterday, WhatsApp launched its most anticipated web-based chat client. The following post was written in November, 2014, exactly two months ago, predicting...
View ArticleSix checkpoints for an imminent Due Diligence
For arbitrary and unjustifiable reasons, start-up entrepreneurs fear (and try to shun) a legal due diligence of their company before receiving any express interest from investors and when they receive...
View ArticleThe three Bawraas who embarked on a crazy endeavour to help artists live...
When 19-year-old Krushnaa Patil stood on top of the world’s highest peak, her first emotion was not exultation, but worry. She had taken a loan of Rs 15 lakhs from a bank to finance her climb to Mount...
View ArticleInside a garlic peeling unit that is clocking annual revenues of Rs 1.3 crores
The smell of freshly peeled garlic and onions wafted out of the room. Piles of peels were kept at the corner and I could see huge containers storing garlic and onions all around. This was not a cooking...
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