Thursday, March 28

Author: Saumya Sunder

Dreamer, Talker and most probably the girl who wants to explore a thousand opportunities because she has a scattered brain! She has varied interests and loves to ideate, interact and reflect. An aspiring entrepreneur who is slowly trying to carve out her idea that becomes her raison d'être
MobiKwik Partners With Samsung Pay For One-Tap Payments
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MobiKwik Partners With Samsung Pay For One-Tap Payments

Digital payments company MobiKwik has recently partnered with Samsung Pay, under which consumers will be able to make payments with a single tap using selected Samsung handsets. "As part of the tie-up, MobiKwik wallet is now integrated with Samsung Pay Mini to enable one-tap payments at more than 1.4 million MobiKwik-powered merchants across the country", the digital payments firm Mobikwik said in a statement. Samsung Pay is the feature given by Samsung, in flagship phones- like S8, S7 edge etc. that allows users to just tap and pay using the debit/credit cards and wallets stored on their mobile devices. Samsung launched this service in India in March, 2017. "The future of digital payments in India will thrive only by collaborating with various ecosystem partners to drive acceptance. Mo...
TVF Founder Arunabh Kumar Arrested, Released on Bail
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TVF Founder Arunabh Kumar Arrested, Released on Bail

In the latest development, Arunabh Kumar, CEO and founder of TVF online channel has been arrested and then re leased on bail on the same day after paying a bond of Rs 10,000. Arunabh was earlier booked for molestation based on a complaint by former office employee in Mumbai, almost two weeks after a blog detailing the harassment first surfaced on the internet. After getting anticipatory bail, Arunabh issued a press statement to the police in which he alleged that the harassment claims were a conspiracy against him. "I have strong feeling that someone is trying to hamper my business by doing all of this," Kumar said. The creative director of TVF, Nidhi Bisht, sent out a letter to the 200 employees of the organisation condemning all the allegations made against Arunabh Kumar.
Easytenants: An Entrepreneur’s Personal Experience as a Single Tenant in India Turned into an Amazing Business Idea
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Easytenants: An Entrepreneur’s Personal Experience as a Single Tenant in India Turned into an Amazing Business Idea

Single and Still in Trouble!! Back in 2011, Parikshit Agarwal felt awesome as he packed his bags for Hyderabad to work with Microsoft as their campus hire. Being an IIT Bombay Alumnus, his reputation was something that surpassed an introduction. All of that lay behind him as he went house hunting in the city. Parikshit wanted a great place to stay, however, he discovered that most housing societies did not allow him to stay as he was a bachelor and brokers showed him flats that were either too far or not up to his liking. He thought to himself, “I should work on a business idea that enables single people to find better places to stay”. For the next three years, he got engrossed in his work, with his idea lingering in his mind. After having researched on his business idea for 4 years by m...
Here comes Fokal – India’s only platform for hiring Creative Lifestyle Service Providers!
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Here comes Fokal – India’s only platform for hiring Creative Lifestyle Service Providers!

While some say you can capture a precious moment at the flick of a click while others say that a photograph is a piece of history that you save for the future. There is something that is really enigmatic and surreal to this discovery that makes us who we are as the humankind. And then I stumbled upon my next startup discovery - Fokal. Founder Shruti tells me more about the company and her vision to establish it as a value-added portal that enables people to hire verified Creative Lifestyle service providers at the click of a button. Read on to know more about her vision for the company and how she is motivated to take her concept to the next level! Tell us more about Fokal, what makes you who you are? Fokal is an online platform where one can hire creative lifestyle service providers a...
All your Laundry and Home Services needs just got Tooler!
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All your Laundry and Home Services needs just got Tooler!

A long Tuesday afternoon and I was getting impatient for my next interview with Tooler. I researched their website a for a bit, after much persuasion from the Pixr8 head Nitish. Not that I do not normally research a company before interviewing but the briefing from Nitish made think to myself "here we go again, yet another online aggregator".  And boy how wrong I was! In simple words, I was quite pleasantly shocked to have sat down for an interview with one of the founders - Sukanth Srivastav. Read on to know how three founders are so clear about what they want to achieve in the area of laundry and home services! Here are the excerpts of my tête-à-tête with Sukanth.                   Tell us more about ...
Pick My Laundry – A Startup That Does Your Laundry With Care!
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Pick My Laundry – A Startup That Does Your Laundry With Care!

To New Beginnings Bored of doing your laundry or running out of time trying to check your weekend to-do list? Worry not, Pick My Laundry comes to your rescue! Pick My Laundry is an IIT alumni startup that provides laundry and dry-cleaning services at the convenience of your doorstep! Working professionals Gaurav Agrawal, Ankur Jain, and Samar Sisodia, found the task of doing their laundry a real pain in their neck and wished there was some company that offers its laundry services to people in big cities. And as they say that necessity is the mother of all inventions, the three started researching on ways to resolve this problem in Delhi. Their research findings were further supported when friends in Gurgaon said "We will be your Customers", when asked if they would avail such services. Wi...