[Techie Tuesdays] Vinodh Kumar – the techie who persuaded Marissa Mayer and...
With the landslide victory of Aam Aadmi Party, there cannot be better day to feature Vinodh Kumar. Vinodh is an AAP Volunteer and has helped extensively in their Bangalore campaigns. At present Vinodh...
View ArticleTheatre artist starts up Blue Phoenix Productions to give actors their due
In an age when star studded blockbusters and Rs 100 crore movies are what people flock to see, it requires immense passion and faith in one’s own abilities to venture into theater. Adhiraj Sharma’s...
View ArticleSwipe and Haptik alliance makes a case for the future of business Instant...
Messaging platforms will continue to become almost as important as operating systems as a way to deliver services. That will change the web’s model of marketing and communication in India. A case in...
View ArticleOutbox venture backed Shaadisaga gears to organize $38 B wedding planning...
A wedding is a big affair and with disposable incomes fast increasing, people have started spending significant amount of money to make weddings memorable and unique. While most wedding planning still...
View ArticleCapital Float secures $13 million in funding to give loans to small businesses
Capital Float is a digital finance company that provides working capital loans to underserved small business in India via a technology-led loan origination and credit underwriting platform. The...
View ArticleQualities that can make you a better startup founder
As a founder, you play an important role in your startup’s success. You are as important as a good idea, seed funding or a mentor. You are the one who is responsible for taking decisions, driving day...
View ArticleFindYahan, marketplace for services and skills raises an Angel round from...
FindYahan is an NCR based online marketplace for skills and services. Started in early 2013, the startup has just raised an angel round from led by Karan Bajwa (MD, Microsoft India) along with Parvesh...
View ArticleBookMyShow’s parent company, BigTree, buys stake in Bangalore-based Eventifier
Bangalore-based Social Media Analytics startup Eventifier has been acquired by Indian’s largest entertainment e-ticketing platform BookMyShow. Eventifier was backed by Kae Capital, Accel Partners...
View ArticleHere’s how AAP pooled INR 1.8 crore in one month for its Delhi election campaign
The 2015 AAP winning strategy The gap between politics and technology has been shrinking dramatically over the past few years. Social media and IVR services have become buzzwords in political...
View ArticleAre ‘achche din’ around the corner? IT sector expectations from Union Budget...
The Budget is an indication of the path the government visualises for an industry. We know that the government is focusing on promoting e-commerce, innovation and entrepreneurship. Finance Minister...
View ArticleYourStory Fireside Chat with Will Poole, MD of Unitus Seed Fund
This Friday, meet Will Poole, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Unitus Seed Fund. Will join us for a fireside chat about his journey in the world of entrepreneurship and investing. When: Friday, 13th...
View ArticleI’ve got 99 problems but the bugs aren’t one of them
The explosion in the remote testing industry is linked to the changing structure of the IT industry, where crowdsourcing is becoming increasingly common. Praveen Singh is an entrepreneur on a mission...
View ArticleRise of self-diagnostics: Your smartphone can be as smart as your doctor
More than 30 per cent of Indians lack access to basic healthcare services. Rural India has less than one doctor for every 5,000 citizens. This number is 80 per cent below the bare minimum recommended...
View ArticleWhich are the next big players in India’s eCommerce industry?
The Indian e-retailing industry is booming. Case in point, the market size has grown from $600 million two years ago to $2.3 Billion currently. We are at a similar inflection point as China was 10...
View ArticlePracto raises $30 million from Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners
Abhinav Lal (CTO) and Shashank ND (CEO), Practoaabhina Practo is a Bangalore based growth stage startup that is on mission is to help improve human longevity by simplifying healthcare. It has just...
View Article5 things to prepare for before thinking of leveraging Big Data
When Big Data emerged as an important analysis tool a few years back, it was mostly for large enterprises. The complexity of Big Data coupled with its high cost made it out of reach for small...
View ArticleFirst to Gift wants to help you meet your celebrity crush
It is a myth that most startup ideas emerge out of an AHA lightbulb moment. Most often, it is a moment of deep reckoning and realization that something is not right. For Mukund K., that moment came...
View ArticleBrewing a brand from tea – the Chai Point story
“What we’re trying to do is to create a brand around chai. There’s a lot of money in building coffee chains, but fundamentally the numbers show that the consumption of chai is at least 10 times that of...
View Article‘This will be Zomato’s fastest ramp up for any geography ever': Deepinder Goyal
In August 2013, in an interview with Livemint, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal was asked what his plans were about adding a feature that let people order food online from Zomato. He said, “There are...
View ArticleFeeling down with your startup? Learn from AAP on how to go from impossible...
By seeing the landslide victory of the Aam Aadmi Party in the recent Delhi elections, one can only imagine how good it feels after achieving such wonderful results barely after two years of existence...
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