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Paypal Led Fintech Startup Affirm Raises $100 Mn From Morgan Stanley
Paypal led fintech startup Affirm has raised $100 Mn from investment bank Morgan Stanley. The raised funds will help the company to expand its consumer lending business. A company statement said Affirm...
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Kids Lifestyle Website Kidsstoppress Nabs Funding From Angel Investors
Parenting startup Kidsstoppress.com has secured funding from angel investors. The amount of funding remains undisclosed. The raised funds will be used to scale up its technology and expand its reach in...
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Uber Allies With T-Hub, TiE Silicon Valley To Launch T-Bridge, Aims To...
Online cab hailing platform Uber, in partnership with T-Hub and TiE Silicon Valley, has launched T-Bridge. T-Bridge is a programme that will connect Indian startups with global market opportunities,...
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Bengaluru Technology Expo Showcases IIGP Winners; Announces 45 Business...
Bengaluru was the home to the recently held Bengaluru Technology Expo, hosted by the India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP). The event was inaugurated by Priyank Kharge, Minister of IT, BT and...
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DIPP To Set Up $300 Mn Credit Guarantee Fund For Startups
In a bid to promote entrepreneurship, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has proposed to set up a Credit Guarantee Fund with a corpus of $300 Mn (INR 2,000 Cr). The announcement was...
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Delhi Based Play Your Sport Acquires Discovery Platform Directground
Delhi-based sports tech startup, Play Your Sport has acquired sports discovery and booking platform, Directground. Post the acquisition, Directground’s founder and CEO Arun Singh Chauhan will join Play...
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Bengaluru Based B2B SaaS Startup For Restaurants Trilyo Secures Seed Funding
Bengaluru-based Trilyo, a B2B SaaS company with solutions for restaurants has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in Seed round. The round was led by Singapore-based private investor and backed by...
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FirstCry Acquires BabyOye’s Franchise Business From Mahindra For $54 Mn;...
FirstCry (BrainBees Solutions Pvt. Ltd) and Mahindra Retail (BabyOye), have consolidated their business activities. The new entity will now work under the brand name FirstCry.com- A FirstCry Mahindra...
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How We Are Solving The Innovator’s Dilemma At Innofest
Deadline to apply for iKen is 18th October, Apply Now! A few years ago I quit my first job armed with only a Patent and a dream to build a high-tech company. I quickly realized in the world of...
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Chasing The Bad To Worse Leads
As an entrepreneur, of course, you are aiming for a YES. But when you get a NO, remember, all NOs are not the same. As you begin your hunt for customers, you will come across many leads who are not...
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3 Popular Play Store App Trends In India
India has seen a huge surge in Internet usage over last 12 months and it is clearly reflected in the 3G Data being consumed across Telcos. I did a quick analysis of the 3G data usage pattern for two...
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Why People Deserve Time And Respect – And Why They’re Worth It
When I was nineteen, I met a guy who’d made millions as an entrepreneur. It was purely by chance, in a pub in Surry Hills, and we started drinking together after we bonded over a mix up around my fries...
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How To Prepare An Anti-Pitch Deck To Impress Investors
Most presentations are designed to persuade funders to invest in the startup. This is why most of them are quite predictable and boring. This is also one of the reasons why founders find it so hard to...
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Unique Things Great Bosses Do Every Day
We’ve all heard the adage, “People don’t leave bad jobs; they leave bad bosses.” It makes great fodder for after-work gripe sessions, but is there really any data to back the claim up? As it turns out,...
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Why Venture Capital Is About Human Capital
For the first five years or so after I became a VC, I didn’t talk much about what I thought a VC should be excellent at since, frankly, I wasn’t sure. I was mostly doing my job and trying to figure out...
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The Side Effects Of Founders Being Youngest In The Team
In the last two articles I presented the way founders behave when they receive funding and when they attend networking events but today I spare them and show you a different side of the story. Anyways...
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Five Things Millennials Care About More Than Money
Millennials (born between 1980-2000) overtake Baby Boomers as America’s largest generation, according to a Pew Research study population estimate released in April 2016. And while most of this...
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This Is What I Do In A Negotiation
“Terrorists have moms,” he said. Jeffrey Schilling was kidnapped in the Philippines and held hostage for 7 and a half months. The terrorists said they were torturing him. But Chris Voss didn’t fall for...
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Holding A Programme In One’s Head
The secret to writing a long programme? Work in long stretches. Taken from Paul Graham’s essay ‘Holding A Program In One’s Head.’ [Editor’s Note: This article was written by Mark Vital and originally...
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It’s A Mobile-First World: Why Marketers Should Make The Leap
The only constant in the ever-evolving world of marketing is change. Since its existence until the current date, marketing has undergone several transformations. Given the current times, we again stand...
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