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Salman Khan Launches Ecommerce Venture – KhanMarketOnline
Continuing its startup journey in the celebrity brand wagon, Bollywood actor Salman Khan has launched an ecommerce website KhanMarketOnline.com. Salman has already been retailing products for his...
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Startup Village To Nurture 10K Campus Startups In The Second Phase
After the successful first phase of operations (2011-15), Startup Village in Kochi, is all set to align itself with the Centre’s ‘Startup India’ programme in the second phase in order to scale up...
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After Maggi, Snapdeal Will Now Sell Pizzas Too!
Ecommerce marketplace Snapdeal will now also sell pizza on its platform. It has tied up with Pizza Hut to launch its two new pizza offerings through its platform. The pizzas are available at Pizza Hut...
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Amazon India Reports Loss For The Second Year
Cloudtail India Pvt. Ltd, a joint venture between Amazon.com Inc. and N.R. Narayana Murthy’s Catamaran Ventures, has generated a total loss of worth INR 31.7 Cr for the year ended March 31, 2015. The...
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Yuvraj Singh Backs Rahul Yadav’s New Startup – Intelligent Interfaces
One of the most talked about startup celebrity, Rahul Yadav has now got yet another star investor. Yuvraj Singh, who started investing in startups this year via YouWeCan Ventures has invested...
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Flipkart Partners With Viacom 18 For Licensing Of International Brands...
Ecommerce giant, Flipkart, ties up with Viacom 18 for the licensing of three of their largest brands – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spongebob Squarepants and Peanuts for sellers. With this, the...
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Unzipping The Controversial Facebook’s Free Basics Indian Campaign; Rise of...
Confused by Facebook’s propaganda on Free Basics literally flooding every media platform? Your newspaper has been carrying it; you have seen it on TV; outdoor hoardings shouting at you; the internet is...
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Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm - The Big 4’s App Performance in 2015 In...
Following up on my last year’s post on Mobile Commerce, I decided to focus only on Big 4 this time primarily due to lack of time. Here is what I published in Dec 2014. The numbers shown below are based...
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An Angel Investor’s Diary for 2015
As the year 2015 draws to a close, it surely has turned out to be a memorable one. The themes which were red hot in the beginning of the year have seen dramatic changes in their fortunes. Hyperlocal...
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Venture Catalysts Partners With Global Incubator & Seed Fund – Plug & Play
With an aim to improve the Innovation Quotient in India, Mumbai-based local seed investment platform, Venture Catalysts, has partnered with global incubator and seed fund Plug & Play International,...
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Why So Many Startups Fail – And How To Avoid The Pitfalls
As we enter a new year more and more startups will join the ring, each competing for success in an increasingly convoluted industry. Statistics on startup success make for a concerning read. Where it...
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Year 2016: The Year When Funding Will Become Truly Democratic
They say when ideas are backed by communities – they become revolutions! Such is an idea of Crowdfunding – which though started gaining ground around 7 years back – but today is shaking any...
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Japanese Adtech Startup Geniee Plans To Foray In Indian Market With New...
Japanese adtech startup Geniee has raised an undisclosed amount of series D funding from Fenox Venture Capital. The startup plans to utilise the funds in expanding to Asian markets. Tomoaki Kudo,...
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Updated: NDTV’s Online Health Product Marketplace, SmartCooky, Raises Funding...
NDTV Ecommerce’s new venture SmartCooky has raised funding from a group of angel investors – Rajan Anandan, ex-Genpact president and CEO Pramod Bhasin, former executive board member of Unilever,...
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Home Service Startup HELPI Raises Angel Funding
Gurgaon-based home services startup, HELPI, has raised an undisclosed amount in angel round of funding from a group of IIT alumni and few investment bankers who are based out of the US. The startup...
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Sparknext To Follow Rocket Internet’s Model; To Incubate 30 Startups In 2016
Ahmed Aftab Naqvi, founder and CEO of Mumbai-based digital marketing firm Gozoop and startup accelerator Sparknext, has decided to accelerate around 30-40 startups in year 2016. Sparknext was launched...
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Hits And Misses Of The Indian Startup Ecosystem In 2015
As few hours remain to close the accounts of this year, let’s take one last look at what worked and what did not in the year that was 2015. When one takes a look at online shopping one sees Paytm...
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When Founders And Funders Don’t See Eye To Eye
It’s very rare that the course of a startup is smooth sailing. When the company is doing well, then both the founders and the funders love each other. Everything is hunky-dory, and no one can do any...
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Startup India 2015: The Good, Bad & Ugly
2015 has been a year of ‘Tamasha’ for the startup ecosystem. Not since the 2000 dot-com bubble has the Indian startup ecosystem witnessed such a high level of volatility and unpredictability. The tide...
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How To Show Financial Projections In Your Pitch Deck
This is the 4th in a series of posts illustrating how to pitch effectively to a Venture Capital Investor. The previous post in the series is here . Tom Cruise couldn’t have uttered truer words – even...
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