5 Challenges I Faced While Launching An Ecommerce Venture For Adult Products
Sex. Even a mere mention of the word in a casual conversation leads to awkward silences and raised eyebrows. One can only imagine the reaction when a woman decides to work towards creating sexual...
View Article12 Mobile And Web App UI Design Tricks Nobody Told You About – Until Now
We asked seven UI designers, developers and entrepreneurs what mobile and web app UI design tricks they learned the hard way, or happened to pick up through the course of their careers. Either nobody...
View Article12 Things Year 2015 Taught Me About Startups And Entrepreneurship
Today 2016 is already 2 months old and I go back to 2015, which was a crucial year! Interestingly, as Vala Afshar of Salesforce puts it that post 2015, we will be closer to year 2030 than we were to...
View ArticleCritical Things Ridiculously Successful People Do Before 8 AM
Starbucks continues to grow relentlessly; with CEO Howard Schulz just announcing plans to open 500 new stores a year over the next five years. Much of this growth will happen in China, where Schulz is...
View Article5 Growth Hacks That Can Come Handy To Increase Conversions
Growth hacking is a term that has only come to light recently. As a business owner, you are always looking at growth to rise above your competitors. Growth hacking techniques make use of creative ways...
View ArticleI Failed In A Food-Tech Startup – Here Are My Five Key Learnings
I incubated and ran a food tech business (EazyMeals) for about 8 months and reached a volume of 100+ orders a day. I was in talks with a few investors as well to raise the angel round but then took a...
View ArticleRata Tata Invests In Home Rental Marketplace Nestaway
One of the most active angel investor of the Indian startup ecosystem, Tata Sons’ chairman emeritus – Ratan Tata has invested an undisclosed amount in Nestaway Technologies Pvt Ltd. Bangalore-based...
View ArticleBSE Sensex Validates That Food Tech Revolution In India Is No Bubble
I read this article in the Economic Times yesterday, and realized that the food-tech sector has just demonstrated its real impact and latent demand on two public stocks (Jubilant Foodworks &...
View ArticleHere’s Why And How We Built Gravity View At Fynd
One of the things we humans take for granted is the effect of gravity in our lives. When you watch astronauts at the International Space Station describing how challenging it is do simple things like...
View Article4 Startups Raise $29K Each In TiE SmashUp Hyderabad
In the recent SmashUp event organized by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Hyderabad, four startups managed to raise a seed funding of about $29K each (INR 20 Lakh) for an exchange of 10% equity stake....
View ArticleFacebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Invests $13 Mn In Hopscotch
Mumbai-based online retailer of baby care and children’s products, Hopscotch, has raised $13 Mn (INR 90 Cr) from Facebook’s co-founder Eduardo Saverin. With this, the company has gained a total...
View ArticleUnion Budget: What’s In It For Startups
Welcome to Inc 42’s live and extensive coverage of the Union Budget 2016 with a special focus on startups and entrepreneurship. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his third Union Budget. The...
View ArticleSIDBI To Raise $1.4 Bn For Stand Up India Fund From RBI
The Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) will be raising the proposed $1.4 Bn (INR 10,000 Cr) corpus for ‘Stand Up India Fund’ from RBI. The fund will be disbursed to Scheduled Castes,...
View ArticleChallenges Of Being An Entrepreneur At 50+
While entrepreneurship is challenging at any point of time in life, the experience can be very different when you gear up for the role at a later age in your life, after you have had worked in multiple...
View ArticleInvestment Platform Tauro Wealth Raises Seed Funding From TracxnLabs
Stock market investments platform, Tauro Wealth, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from TracxnLabs and a few angel investors. Bangalore-based Tauro Wealth’s platform provides investors...
View ArticleDriveU, An App That Provides Chauffeurs, Raises Funding From Unitus Seed Fund
Bangalore-based DriveU, a firm that aggregates on-demand drivers for private car owners, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Unitus Seed Fund. Founded in June 2015 by Ramprasad...
View ArticleReliance Extends Its JIO Brand To Fashion Ecommerce With AJIO.com
Reliance Industries is extending the new brand ‘Jio’ to newer businesses. After its telecom unit Reliance Jio and its upcoming digital wallet Jio Money, the company has extended the brand to fashion...
View Article22 Years, 6 Failures And One Hell Of A Startup; And Ritesh Is Not Stopping Yet!
“If you have not failed, you have not hardened yourself.” Coming from a 22 year old CEO, these words might seem a bit cocky. But when Ritesh Agarwal in conversation with Shruti Mishra at the recently...
View ArticleRevolutionary Road Of An Entrepreneur: 5 Lessons From Leonardo DiCaprio’s...
Leonardo DiCaprio has finally won his first Oscar. He was named the Best Actor at the 88th Academy Awards, for his role in ‘The Revenant’. The crowd gave DiCaprio a standing ovation as he picked up his...
View ArticleUnion Budget 2016: Here’s What The Startup Ecosystem Had To Say About This...
Last year, the Nehru jacket was dark blue and the briefcase, light brown. Au contraire, this year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley wore a light blue Nehru jacket and carried a brown briefcase that was a...
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