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4 inspiring short stories of starting up world famous companies
What does it take to start up? A brilliant idea? A great team? Money? Yes. All of those things. But more than anything what it takes, is belief. A belief that there is significance to the problem being...
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Happy 19th – 19 Milestones of Yahoo!
Yahoo!, the iconic web company celebrated its 19th birthday yesterday. Although this organization has played a big role in shaping the World Wide Web as we know it, the journey has been a series of...
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Top Jobs of the week
Developers are sought after everywhere and startups are no exception. Last week’s top jobs has maximum requirements for developers, closely followed by business development roles. In the last month of...
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Need to plan that perfect short break? LifeIsOutside is your answer
According to a 2012 Vacation Deprivation Study by travel company Expedia, out of 22 countries surveyed, India was the 4th most vacation-deprived country globally. Unlike the US, Europe and few other...
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Top stories of the week : 23rd Feb – 1st Mar ’14
Bangalore ranked 19th worldwide in a survey of best places to launch a business. It is definitely the best place in India to startup. But at the same time, we cannot ignore the emerging new businesses...
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Venture-backed Reviews42 finds its footing with mobile as a focus, reaches 3...
Surjendu Kuila (Left) and Neeraj Jain Neeraj Jain and Surjendu Kuila are both engineers and IIM almuni who came together in 2011 to make a mark in the online product discovery space. Together they have...
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Why SaaS startups are on Cloud Nine
The shift to the cloud is gathering momentum. Forrester Research says cloud computing in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) grew by over 20% last year – which was even higher than the figure for...
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The Side Effects of Funding
Yes, getting VC investment is a big deal, especially in a market like India where venture money is still chasing a few. Since the past few years the news that has been getting maximum attention in the...
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Business discovery platform NowFloats powers more than 8K businesses, to...
For developing countries like India where consumer behaviour is primarily ROPO (research online purchase offline), optimizing the website for local search is critical. At present, there is euphoria...
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Smart Content: South Korea startup showcase at Mobile World Congress
While South Korea’s Samsung has made headlines around the world for its smartphone innovations and global market share, the content and app developers from the ‘hermit kingdom’ are yet to become as...
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“India is the largest market for Truecaller”, Alan Mamedi – Co-founder...
What started with sharing smartphone experiences way back in 2003 for Alan and Nami, subsequently resulted in a permanent solution for perennial problems related to spam calls. Alan Mamedi and Nami...
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IIT Bombay and Delhi alumni come together to crack test prep space with Testbook
Test preparation is a huge market in India. The tutoring business is pegged to grow to INR 75,600 crores by 2014-15, and this segment is very lucrative for startups to get into because people (read...
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Corporate Social Responsibility – Is it really that social?
Finally, after much debate among corporate circles, on the impact it will have on India Inc. pocket, the section on corporate social responsibility (‘CSR’), along with CSR rules (‘CSR Rules’) and...
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Coppre brings back the shine on ancient Tambat craft
Back in the glorious days of the 18th century, artisans had royal patronage in the various kingdoms in India. The Tambats belonged to one such group. They were craftsmen who made coins, letter forms...
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6 skills every successful entrepreneur must learn
Entrepreneurs are made, not born. Entrepreneurship requires all-encompassing skills and abilities that other occupations do not even touch upon. Engineers draft plans for a new project, then pass the...
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The magic behind 10 Million hits on YouTube – The ‘iPad magician’ story
Simon Pierro – Magician in the making Magic is all about big props, making things vanish or creating them out of thin air. This is what I believed until I saw a video by iPad magician Simon Pierro....
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From Tahrir Square to Ukraine’s #Euromaidan – social media on the frontlines
With Russia invading the Crimea, global stocks tumbling, and bodies piling up, it seems facetious to talk about how technology and social media occupy a central place in the Ukrainian uprising. But if...
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How to build a community around your product – a CommonFloor crack code
Look at this screenshot of the CommonFloor website. What do you notice? Notice how the two rings namely ‘Real Estate‘ and ‘Apartment Communities‘ are interlinked. You would be amazed by how much that...
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From five co-founders to 2500 plus employees in two years, Delhivery ships...
While all e-commerce supporting services like payment, marketing, technology among others have attracted venture capital attention, logistics has not been able to draw institutional investor’s...
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How startups can crack a $40 billion market with job-oriented MOOCs
Stanford University Professor Sebastian Thrun kicked off a revolution three years ago when he decided to video record his lecturers on artificial intelligence and make it freely available online. About...
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