Timescity acquires Dineout, Moves closer towards its ‘discovery to...
Timescity is the lifestyle portal of Times Internet that wants to be the one-stop shop to locate, access information about restaurants and nightlife establishments in India’s metropolitans and other...
View ArticleHow babyBOX engages consumers right from birth, reaches 1 mn parents
What if you get a sample box full of diapers, baby wipes, sanitizers, and other clinically-tested safe products from some of the leading brands of this space for free right after you have a baby? The...
View ArticleHow you can use Open Data to spur the next wave of Internet innovation:...
Joel Gurin is the author of the book Open Data Now: The secret to hot startups, smart investing, savvy marketing and fast innovation (see my review). He has a background in the private sector, media,...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon alumni startup LogiNext to take Logistics to the next level
Dhruvil Sanghvi, Manisha Raisinghani and Varun Biyani are Indians who met at the Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. Dhruvil has been involved in technology space for more than five years with a strong...
View ArticleMarketing Tips for Startups: An Interview with Mani Iyer
As the founder of a startup, aspiring entrepreneurs will often be forced to assume roles and manage various aspects of their business that they might not have much experience with. A lot of people...
View ArticleCould this be the next big thing after Whatsapp?
Social networks post a significant challenge for newbies just starting out. Most people have meaningful thoughts and ideas to share, but what to do when there is no one to share them with? Idea Labs...
View ArticleSnapdeal.com acquires lifestlye & fashion products discovery platform...
More news about Snapdeal’s aggressive ambition has come in. This time it is about the acquisition of products discovery platform Doozton.com. Doozton helps online product discovery in fashion &...
View ArticleHow Qualcomm Ventures QPrize contributed to the Capillary success story
Capillary Technologies won the Qualcomm Ventures international business plan competition QPrize India in 2009, receiving $ 100,000 as seed money. Capillary is a startup company by IIT Kharagpur alumni...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs, where is your Sweetspot?
In February 2012, three BJP ministers from Karnataka were caught on camera watching porn on their cell phones. The Assembly was in progress while the trio were immersed in this very interesting...
View ArticleWild City: how a UK-based couple moved to India and made a place in the music...
image credit: Sachin Soni Sarah Fatemi and Munbir Chawla met in the UK where Munbir was studying music production. Munbir had experience in pretty much every aspect of the music industry from sound...
View Article26 thumb rules for bootstrapping from a toughened entrepreneur
“Bootstrapping is a way to do something about the problems that you have without letting someone else give you permission to do them.” - Tom Preston-Werner, Co-founder, GitHub A year-and-a-half ago,...
View ArticleTips for Creating a Great Responsive Website
The use of mobile devices continues to grow worldwide each and everyday, making it increasing important for businesses to optimize their online presence for use across all platforms. From online...
View Article40 finest African tech startups to launch at DEMO Africa 2014; submissions...
Forty startups from all over Africa will convene to pitch their product and services at this year’s DEMO Africa Conference to be held in Lagos, Nigeria, between September 22 and 26, 2014. DEMO Africa...
View ArticleCollaboration and learning network Function Space raises seed funding from...
Function Space is a Pune based collaboration and learning network for students, researchers and enthusiasts in Mathematics, Physics, and other sciences. The company has announced today that it has...
View ArticleMBA Dropout, Pankil Shah’s tryst with Voniz and VClassrooming
A bunch of friends got to discussing how much our society needs a good professional network that provides a synergy between professional, social and business forums of an individual’s life. This led...
View Article5 winning tips to scale online marketplaces in India
Starting a two-sided marketplace is becoming incredibly challenging with the growing competition in India. We have marketplaces like Quikr, OLX, eBay, Snapdeal and now Flipkart and Amazon also going...
View ArticleHow ex-Apple and Adobe employees are changing the way people consume and...
In the last 25 years since the web has been around, we have always shared web content the same way — by copying and pasting URLs. This is what MAZ is changing. The New York City-based startup founded...
View ArticleWhy every vote matters to your startup
In a mammoth exercise in democracy, India is voting. So far, 233 constituencies, including Assam, Sikkim and Tripura in the north-east, Arunachal Pradesh in the Himalayas, plus the other...
View ArticleHow we won the QPrize without being great presenters: Our QPrize Story – Part 2
Our startup, Deck – www.deck.in – won the last Qualcomm QPrize India event and this is our QPrize story. I am sure you have seen a great presenter — someone who looks like they were born to walk up to...
View ArticleIgloo: a cool working space for hot startups in Mumbai
Dalberg Global Development Advisors is a strategy and policy advisory firm that works for global development and innovation. Established in New York in 2001 with a network that now includes 12 offices...
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