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Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Fail
To be an entrepreneur you need to know the reasons why most of them failed in their first efforts. Entrepreneurship is tough. It is for the ones who truly believe in it and are ready to embrace the...
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Kraftly To Connect Its Sellers With Buyers On Instagram; Launches InstaKonnect
Delhi-based mobile O2O marketplace Kraftly has launched ‘InstaKonnect’, a feature for its sellers to connect directly with its buyers, on Instagram. Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing,...
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Micromax, Transerv & Visa Join Hands To Offer Mobile Payment Solution
Micromax has recently announced its plans of shifting its focus from handset maker to a company focusing on services ecosystem.It has also announced a strategic partnership with TranServ and Visa. The...
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Girnar Soft Lays Off 60 Employees As It Focuses On Core Areas
Girnar Soft, the parent company of auto portals CarDekho.com, Gaadi.com and Zigwheels.com has fired 60 employees; as the company realigns its management and resources to focus on its core areas. This...
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AdLift CEO Prashant Puri Invests $300K In PriceRaja
Gurgaon-based PriceRaja, a product & price comparison and deal aggregation platform, has raised about $300K (INR 2 Cr) from Prashant Puri, founder and CEO of AdLift. With this, Puri will also join...
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Softbank And Existing Investors Pump In Another $100 Mn In OYO Rooms
Branded budget-hotel marketplace OYO Rooms has raised $100 Mn in its fifth round of funding from existing investors, reported HT. As per the report, OYO Rooms has raised the funding from existing...
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Banking With The Brightest: The Rising Courtship Between Banks And Startups
“In union, there is strength.” – Aesop At the launch of its recent offering, SmartUp, Smita Bhagat, Branch Banking Head (North) and Co-head, ecommerce, HDFC Bank, told fledgling startups, “We help you...
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What I Learned When I Lived Without Mobile Data For 2 Months
I was living without mobile internet for the past 2 months. Somehow Airtel had bonked my data plan, and they couldn’t set it right the first time I got on support. I figured something must be wrong...
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Peer-To-Peer Lending Platform LenDenClub Gets Seed Funding
Mumbai-based peer-to-peer lending platform LenDenClub has raised an undisclosed amount of angel investment through Venture Catalysts, a seed investment and innovation platform. Investors that...
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Muses Marketing Signs Definitive Document To Merge With AdOnStream
Gurgaon-based marketing and advertising agency Muses Marketing Pvt Ltd has merged with an online branding agency AdOnStream Services LLP. The value of the merged entity is estimated to be at $2 Mn....
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Cloud Video Production Platform 90 Seconds Raises $7.5 Mn From Sequoia India...
90 Seconds, a cloud video production platform, has raised $7.5 Mn in Series A round of funding led by Sequoia India. The round was supported by SKY TV NZ, Airtree Ventures, Beenext, and Fotolia.com...
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Investment Firm DSG Consumer Partners Closes Its Second Fund At $35 Mn
DSG Consumer Partners (DSGCP), an investment company, focused on identifying, selecting and investing exclusively in early-stage consumer businesses in India and South East Asia, has closed its second...
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Actor Anil Kapoor Backs Video Social Network Indi.com
Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor has invested an undisclosed amount in a video social network Indi.com, which is yet to be launched in India. The South California-based Indi.com was started in 2012 by...
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Ecommerce Enabler Shopmatic To Expand Its Role In India
Singapore-based Shopmatic, is all set to expand its role as a Business Service provider in India. It is an international ecommerce enabler that offers an entire ecosystem to businesses and individuals...
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Lessons Learnt From Pivoting From A Product Company To Starting A Creative...
A quick backstory of how Pixelmattic came to be. We started out as an education product startup almost 5 years ago. We bootstrapped our way to building a social learning platform, but go to market...
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Subscription Based Delivery Startup, RainCan, Raises Additional $150K Funding
Subscription-based grocery delivery startup, RainCan, has raised an additional funding of about $150K (INR 1 Cr.) in its angel round funding led by Aniruddha Malpani and others. This is a follow-up of...
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AI-Enabled Task Manager App MagicX Raises $1 Mn Seed Funding
Bangalore-based MagicX, has raised $1 Mn from investors including Kris Gopalakrishnan (co-founder and former CEO, Infosys Ltd), Dr. Ranjan Pai (MD & CEO–Manipal Education and Medical Group),...
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Bharti Airtel-Kotak JV Gets Payments Bank Licence From RBI
Reserve Bank of India, has granted payments bank license to telecom major – Bharti Airtel. Bharti Airtel had applied for the payments bank license last year in partnership with Kotak Mahindra Bank...
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Now Maharashtra Govt. Wants To Shut Surge Pricing By Uber & Ola
After Karnataka government’s decision to curb surge pricing by taxi aggregator, it is now Maharashtra government which is planning to adopt the same. As per reports, the state transport department is...
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Singer Shaan Logs In To The Startup World; Launches Happydemic To Connect...
Singer Shaan has launched an online startup named as Happydemic to bring performance artists and customers on a single platform. Shaan’s wife Radhika Mukherji and Amar Pandit, founder and chief...
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