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[Bootstrap Heroes] Building an INR 1Cr startup out of Coimbatore –...
How can four guys from a city like Coimbatore make a difference? Four guys who want to build a creative business right out of college, without money or resources of a big-name studio and without the...
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[Techie Tuesdays] The case of the ‘curious tester’: Parimala Hariprasad
Parimala Hariprasad spent her youth studying people and philosophy. By the time she got to work, she was able to put those learnings to create awesome testers. Parimala makes walking the talk look...
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Army school alumni bid to ease traffic woes in Bangalore, start CyclerCity
Niranth Bymana and Rajiv Singh go back a long way when they studied at the Army Public School in Bangalore. Life took them in different directions — Rajiv did an MBA and worked with the likes of JP...
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“Ekalavya Redux”: Our QPrize Story – Part 1 [Deck]
Our startup, Deck – won the Qualcomm QPrize India 2013 and this is our QPrize story. Winners of QPrize 2012, Deck App This story doesn’t actually start at the QPrize event itself but two years prior to...
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Mobile World Capital: Catalonia startup showcase at MWC 2014 in Barcelona
With 75,000 mobile enthusiasts from around the world descending into Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress, the chance to showcase and promote local startups and innovators is an unprecedented...
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Mobile app developers, you are invited to Tango with Google’s 3D phone
Smartphones keep creating new possibilities for innovating and starting up. Internet and GPS capabilities, for example, launched new waves of Web and location-based apps and startups. But GPS is old...
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Meet Dr Akil Khan, the man who brought Tour de France to India
If it wasn’t for Lance Armstrong, Tour de France was making all the right noises — the challenge it presented, the grind it required and the fame that came with it. After Olympics, Tour de France is...
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Startup Village incubatee Mocioun gears to disrupt local fashion with new app
Ameen Rashad, Salmon KP and Aby Mathew are Co-founders of Mocioun, a mobile app development startup. They were earlier classmates and co-workers respectively during their engineering and brief...
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Right time to dip into the social media analytics market
Social Media has led to the birth of an entirely new industry. With more and more companies recognizing the power of social media, the demand for enablers in the space has increased. Be it HCL’s...
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MoneyHero aims to be the MakeMyTrip of financial products in Asia
When 32-year-old Dean James Samuel moved to Hong Kong to work for a company there, one of the first things he had to consider was the high cost of living. He knew he had to go for an international...
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Venture debt finance platform IntelleGrow raises INR 28 crore from Omidyar...
Mumbai-based finance platform for small and medium social enterprises IntelleGrow has announced Rs. 28 crore fresh investment led by Omidyar Network and Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. The round...
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ReferMe refunds money if you are unable to find a job
Rashmi Nandan – co-founder, ReferMe When it comes to hiring, employee referrals play a huge part. Most companies offer big incentives on employee referrals but the main challenge lies in the fact that...
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Simone Ahuja: leveraging ‘jugaad’ innovation to help Fortune 500 companies
Simone Ahuja is a best-selling author, management consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and founder of Blood Orange, a marketing and strategy consultancy focused on emerging markets and innovation. Most...
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Baroda-based HealthRecordsIndia sets out to make a patient-centric product...
Healthcare is a high impact space for startups to disrupt and there have been many Indian companies which have entered the fray. HealthRecordsIndia (HRI) is one such effort which tries to solve the...
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Brother-sister team ride tandem with their dream bicycle project, Red Spokes...
You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a bike and that’s pretty close. With this idea in mind, Zubin Jagtiani and his sister Shaina co-founded Red Spokes Cycling, a Bangalore-based company that...
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Startup hiring – A candidate’s perspective
While watching this video on YourStory, it struck me how the word ‘challenge’ is often used in conjunction with hiring for startups. There are hundreds of articles, videos, blogs describing challenges...
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With two cost-effective robots Artrimus & G4, Robots Alive to curb import of...
Consumption of machine tool (CNC machines and robotic systems) has been growing significantly with its increasing application in electronic and automobile sectors, machining of metals and plastic parts...
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The Baggout deal: Go online shopping with friends, and get cashback too
Now, let’s admit it. All of us have turned into online shoppers. You could be a newbie picking up a book here and a shoe there or maybe you bought everything from the bed you sleep in to the diamond on...
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Energizing rural entrepreneurship through AntarPrerana
In my previous column, I had shared our idea of having a district-level entrepreneurs network that would support and empower Rubans (our term for the new Rural-Urban) to pursue their entrepreneurial...
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Flipkart achieves $1 billion GMV sales a year before projection
Poster boy of Indian eCommerce space Flipkart has hit the $1 billion gross merchandising value (GMV) sales, which it had projected to achieve somewhere in 2015. Backed by Venture capital firms like...
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