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Entrepreneurship Is A Boomerang
No good work is left unrewarded. As a new entrepreneur building your business, you may be tempted to take shortcuts. After all, there are only that many hours in the day. When working to complete a...
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Why The Optimism Of Angel Investors Is Rational
A lot of mainstream equity investors feel that angel investors just end up burning money because angel investing is illiquid and risky. Success stories are few and far between and they feel that angels...
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There Are 5 Factors A VC Will Give A Shit About
Alan jones tweeted recently about startup founders sending him Prezi pitch decks that he couldn’t open on his phone. The message was pretty simple. Don’t do that shit. I can understand Alan’s...
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How To Build A Startup And Understanding Venture Capital
Many first-time founders seek advice when thinking about what ideas would be great for a startup company and receive the wrong advice that you need to focus on a billion-dollar idea. There are very few...
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Grofers Gets Into Legal Trouble For Revoking Job Offers Of 67 Students
Grofers, the hyperlocal grocery delivery startup is now stuck in a legal tangle after it revoked the job offers of 67 students. A legal notice has been sent by 20 students collectively to Grofers. “The...
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How To Hire The Best Talent For Your Organisation?
After working for more than 5 years, from being an Employee to Talent hunter, I have experienced a different level of problems across the journey. We have learnt a lot while helping more than 800...
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Angels Devang Mehta And Sandeep Shetty Back IoT marketplace Gaia Smart Cities
Gaia Smart Cities, a Delhi-based IoT marketplace, has raised $300K in an angel funding round. The investment was led by Devang Mehta and Sandeep Shetty. The raised funds will be utilised for product...
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Healthkart Gets A $12 Mn Funding Boost From Sequoia And Kae Capital For...
Gurgaon based ecommerce platform for health products, Healthkart.com has raised $12 Mn (INR 80 Cr) in its series E round of funding from existing investors Sequoia Capital India, Omidyar Network and...
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Uber China To Merge With Rival Didi Chuxing
Struggling to keep up with the competition in the Chinese Taxi market, Uber Technologies Inc. has decided to sell its China business to rival Didi Chuxing. Didi Chuxing is the dominant ride-hailing...
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Zopper Goes Multi Platform, Launches Desktop Site
Zopper, a Delhi-based hyperlocal marketplace has launched its desktop site. The move aims to enhance user-friendliness and appeal, across all online touch points including its mobile app, m-site and...
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The Snakes And Ladders Game Of India’s Edtech Industry
India is a land of mind-boggling numbers. As an active participant in the education products and services market, I am no stranger to this. The first slide of every Powerpoint presentation or...
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The Multi-billion Dollar Market That Doesn’t Exist!
Over the last few months, I have read with interest articles on the laundry segment in India – articles by VCs, entrepreneurs and journalists. Most articles typically begin with a market size estimate...
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How Coworking Is Disrupting India’s Office Space Dynamics
New age businesses in India are witnessing a revolutionary shift in office space dynamics driven by cost optimisation strategies as well as solutions to cater to a younger workforce. For long however...
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Cloud Services Firm Zoho Launches Slew Of Services As It Gears Up To Take On...
Nothing stops a startup from building in India and selling outside. From our experience we have been doing this for last 20 years. We are proof that it can be done – Manikandan Vembu, CEO of cloud...
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Zone Startups India led ’empoWer’ Accelerator Funds Three Startups
Mumbai-based Zone Startups India, a venture fund and accelerator housed at BSE, handed out equity free seed funding of INR 10 Lakhs, INR 7 Lakhs and INR 5 Lakhs to the top 3 Women founded startups. The...
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11 Shutdowns In 2 Months: Downfall Of Indian Startup Continues
2016 has been tough on startups both in terms of funding and obviously challenges of running a business. If we look at the publicly available data for the first five months, more than 18 startups had...
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MobiKwik To Power Ecash Payments On IRCTC’s Ecatering App
Gurgaon-based mobile wallet company, MobiKwik has partnered with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). As a part on the exclusive partnership, MobiKwik will power e-cash payments on...
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How The Mighty Have Fallen: Once Valued At $125 Bn, Why Yahoo Was Sold To...
Yahoo is a company that changed the world. Now, we will continue to, with even greater scale, in combination with Verizon and AOL. Reads Yahoo’ CEO Marissa Mayer’s letter to Yahoo’s moments after...
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Online Career Platform For Women SHEROES Raise $1.8 Mn In Series A Funding
SHEROES, a Delhi-based job and career platform for women has raised $1.8 Mn (INR 12 Cr) in Series A funding. The investment was led by Lumis Partners along with participation from The HR Fund and angel...
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Quikr Shuts Down Flatchat’s Office Six Months Post CommonFloor’s Acquisition
Six months after online classifieds major Quikr acquired online realty portal CommonFloor, it has shut down Flatchat’s office, a rental flatmate-finding application owned by CommonFloor. ET reports...
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