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Common Mistakes Founders Make When Pitching To Investors
As an angel, I have had to sit through umpteen founders pitching to me, and many of the PowerPoint presentations I have suffered through have put me to sleep. One of the reasons founders find it so...
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Exclusive: Arvind Retail Acquires Freecultr To Boost Its OmniChannel Portal...
Arvind Internet, the online arm of the textile manufacturer and flagship company Arvind Ltd has acquired private label ecommerce company Freecultr. Freecultr is a lifestyle apparel brand started by...
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Edtech Accelerator EDUGILD Onboards Seven Startups For Second Batch
Pune-based engineering college, Maharashtra Institute of Technology has onboarded seven startups in the second batch of edtech accelerator programme Edugild. The chosen startups have been selected from...
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Has The Startup Bug Bit You?
Doctor, the last dose of a corporate job didn’t work! It’s a plague, highly contagious and extremely persistent. If you’ve been bitten by the startup bug, take precaution. Symptoms may include an...
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Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [29 August – 3 September]
This week, Paytm announced an undisclosed investment from Mountain Capital, an investment fund of Taiwan’s MediaTek. According to speculations, MediaTek is expected to invest $60 Mn in the company. The...
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7 Lessons To Learn From The Most Successful Entrepreneur Of Chaos: Joker
It is really fascinating to see how the Joker – an arch-nemesis, who came into being 75 years ago, is still the most-followed supervillain in the history of American comics. With no superpower...
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Movers And Shakers Of The Week [29 August – 3 September]
Let’s take a look at the important movers and shakers of the week! Microsoft Accelerator India Gets New CEO-in-Residence Microsoft has appointed Bala Girisaballa as CEO-in-Residence of Microsoft...
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Fashion Retailer Voonik Acquires Styling And Personalisation App Dekkoh
Bengaluru-based fashion marketplace Voonik has acquired Dekkoh, a personalisation and styling app, for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition Voonik aims to strengthen its platform that focusses...
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Ola On Firing Spree; Lays Off 250 More Employees Citing Performance Issues
After shutting down TaxiForSure and laying off over 1000 employees last week, the Bengaluru-based cab aggregator, Ola has now reportedly laid off around 250 people on performance grounds and...
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News Roundup: 17 Startup Stories That You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [28...
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has proposed a reality show for Indian startups. The idea came along the lines of Shark Tank – an American reality television series. As per a...
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Fabindia’s MD Backs Online Fashion Portal StalkBuyLove
Online Fashion brand StalkBuyLove has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from William Bissell, Managing Director of ethnic retailer Fabindia. This funding is an extension of the last round of...
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10 Things Successful People (Who Are Actually Happy) Do Differently
Achievement rarely produces the sense of lasting happiness that you think it will. Once you finally accomplish the goal you’ve been chasing, two new goals tend to pop up unexpectedly. We long for new...
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14 Penultimate Rules On Being More Creative
“You know that ‘penultimate’ means ‘second’, right?” she said to me. I forget why, but it was in a horribly embarrassing situation. I remember that. I remember thinking I thought ‘penultimate’ meant...
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Dreams, Sacrifices, And A Million Bucks
If you want to be a founder, don’t crap out. So I’ll start this with a tough truth. I’ve crapped out time and time again. I’ve been scared, scared of failure and embarrassment and scared of losing, and...
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What to Make Of Andreessen Horowitz’s Returns?
Rolfe Winkler wrote a piece in the WSJ about A16Z’s returns in which he says they “lag behind Sequoia, Benchmark and Founders Fund.” Scott Kupor of A16Z responded with a comprehensive overview of...
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From Digital Recharges To Digital Money: Eko’s Journey To Bring The Bank To...
Imagine. Imagine is a powerful word. ‘Imagine’ helps to foresee the future before anyone else has even thought about it. Imagine helps an entrepreneur question the status quo: What if instead of this,...
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AskMe Saga Gets Sordid: Employee Threatens Suicide If Salary Not Paid Within...
The AskMe saga is getting more sordid by the day. The company, which is accused of non-payment of INR 100-150 Cr of dues and has left more than 4000 employees astray, has now been threatened by an...
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BSNL Hopes To Combat Reliance Jio Domination With Promotional Broadband Plan...
State-run telecom provider BSNL has announced a low-cost promotional plan for hooking existing and new subscribers. The new plan will provide 1GB data/INR 1 for unlimited broadband data and is called...
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PropTiger Acquires PropRates To Add Advanced Data Collation Tool To Its Offering
Online real estate advisor PropTiger has acqui-hired Mumbai-based startup PropRates. Post acquisition, the team of PropRates will come on board at PropTiger. The startup will continue to build on their...
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Software Development Company Zybo Tracking Solutions Secures Funding From...
Software solutions provider Zybo Tracking Solutions has received foreign equity investment from Grasshoppers, a Netherlands-based company. The amount of investment is undisclosed. The funding will be...
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