It’s Time To Raise Funds
Have you ever borrowed money from your friend or asked a large sum of money from your parents? I’m not talking about petty cash, I’m talking about a little bigger sum ya, a little insane amount to...
View ArticleCritical Ways Managers Motivate And Demotivate Employees
Few things are as costly and disruptive as managers who kill morale. Demotivated employees underperform and then walk out the door at the first opportunity. The scariest thing is how prevalent this...
View ArticleWhy Effective Personalisation Isn’t Just About Your Website
There is no denying that personalisation is the need of the hour. If you’re planning to take your business products or services to your target market with a sales pitch in hand, you’re headed only...
View ArticleWhy Perfectionism Will Kill Your Startup – And How To Beat It Into A Pulp...
I’ve recorded this short video for you today because I wanted to have a bit of a heart to heart about how perfectionism will kill your startup – and how to beat it into a pulp before it does. Very...
View ArticleHow to Set Up A Successful Outbound Email Campaign
When it comes to reaching out to a potential lead without a previous relationship, the task can often seem daunting, and if done incorrectly, the results are lukewarm at best. Most companies don’t have...
View ArticleLogistics Platform Rivigo Raises Its Biggest Round Of Funding, Secures $75 Mn...
Gurugram-based logistic platform, Rivigo has raised $75 Mn from an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm focussed on growth investing. Deepak Garg, Founder and CEO of Rivigo...
View ArticleHow Billion Dollar Edtech Startup Udacity Is Equipping Indian Users With...
In 2012, Sebastain Thrun, one of the inventors of the self-driving car, decided to put up the AI course that he was teaching at Stanford university online, for free. That over 160,000 students applied...
View ArticleJustRide Pockets $3 Mn From YCombinator Partners And Others
Mumbai-based car sharing platform, JustRide, has raised about $3 Mn (INR 20 Cr) in a bridge round of funding from YCombinator partners Justin Kan & Qasar Younis (COO of YCombinator), and Paul...
View Article48 Deals Worth $135 Mn Forecasted For 2016: How ‘University Town’ Pune Has...
Pune, also written as Poona, was earlier known as Punawadi or Punya Nagri which means “City of Virtue.” The city is popularly referred to as the “Oxford of The East,” as it is a very famous educational...
View ArticleOla And Snapdeal Valuations Take A Beating: Face $555 Mn Markdown From SoftBank
Softbank Group Corp has reportedly marked down close to $555 Mn in two of its Indian investments, cab hailing firm Ola and ecommerce marketplace Snapdeal, as per its six monthly earnings report, ending...
View Article4 Benefits For Startups To Avail When GST Is Implemented
We have been surrounded with a buzz on GST and its impact on various industries. Most of the discussions are happening around how GST will impact the way India does business, how various industries are...
View ArticleWhy Hardware Incubators Are Critical To The Future Of Making Things
Hardware is hot — and poised to get hotter. Venture capital investment in connected device hardware startups reached approximately $1.48 Bn in 2014, more than triple the amount two years earlier....
View ArticleIndonesian Bike-Taxi Startup Go-Jek Acquires Pune Based Mobile App Developer...
Sequoia-backed Indonesian bike-taxi service Go-Jek has acquired Pune-based mobile application developer Leftshift. The acquisition is aimed at strengthening and upscaling Go-Jek’s product development,...
View ArticleIvyCamp Partners With Airbus BizLab Bengaluru; Launches Season Two Of Six...
IvyCamp, the unified technology-based platform of IvyCap Ventures for innovation and entrepreneurship has entered into a partnership with Airbus BizLab to announce Season #2 of its accelerator...
View ArticleHow Home Interior Aggregator Startup CapriCoast Is Betting Big On...
Home is where you hang your hat or so goes the song. But walk into any modern home in a city – an apartment, duplex or row house – and the first thing to notice will be the interiors. Comfy couches, a...
View Article4 Fundamental Reasons Why Startups Should Consider Bootstrapping
The Indian startup ecosystem is one of the biggest in the world with VCs pumping in over $9 Bn in 1005+ startups in 2015. This number has reached $2.1 Bn in the first half of 2016, but of late,...
View ArticleExpress Distribution And Supply Chain Solutions Provider Gati Invests In...
Hyderabad-based express distribution and supply chain solutions provider, Gati Ltd has invested about $2.7 Mn (INR 18.5 Cr) in BrownTape – a cloud-based software solutions company which helps online...
View ArticleWhy The Infant Mortality Rate Of Startups Is So High
There is a hot new startup that is being seeded by its founder and breaking out of its incubator every so often each day and yet there is another startup that has had its place in the sun and basked in...
View ArticleZomato Ropes In Morgan Stanley To Raise Fresh Funds; Looks To Expand With New...
Online restaurant discovery and food ordering platform Zomato is reportedly gearing up for aggressive investments in food delivery and new businesses such as cloud kitchens. This comes at a time when...
View ArticleMichael & Susan Dell Foundation Invests $2.1 Mn In Multilingual Test...
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has made an equity investment of $2.1 Mn (INR 15 Cr) in the mobile-first multilingual test preparation app OnlineTyari. The foundation is the lead investor in...
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