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Here comes Fokal – India’s only platform for hiring Creative Lifestyle Service Providers!

23Sep By Saumya SunderNo Comments

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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...

He worked as a waiter in Bihar, studied at BIT, Now helping youth to fulfill their dreams

8Sep By No Comments

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He worked as a waiter in Bihar, studied at BIT, Now helping youth to fulfill their dreams

Munna – a simple man with a common name but worth emulating. Coming from humble origins and against all odds, Munna runs his Khwab Foundation with a lot of zest and enthusiasm an infectious ‘must-do’ attitude to uplift the status of the rural youth. We heard his speech in an event and thought why not to cover such a great social entrepreneur. We emailed him twice and finally, I sat down with Mr Munna for an interview. Here is what he had to say:- Having faced some great challenges early in life, what would you say motivates you the most? My early childhood days have been full of challenges. I was born to a socially deprived family. My father worked in another city, my mother had to work as a housemaid. My sister was married but died due to a dowry-related death - all for the rea...

Interview with Arunachalam Muruganantham- The Real Padman Hero of India

17Aug By No Comments

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Interview with Arunachalam Muruganantham- The Real Padman Hero of India

“Grab the Opportunity – It won’t be lying around on the ground!” “The Sanitary Napkin Man” may sound an awkward title, but is a resounding Google search – about 2,55,000 results in 0.37 seconds – all about Arunachalam Muruganantham - a social entrepreneur who has empowered women in a way no one before him has. He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad making machine and has innovated grass-roots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India. His mini-machines, which can manufacture sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads, have been installed in 23 of the 29 states of India. He is currently planning to expand the production of these machines to 106 nations. Pixr8 interviewed the great...

How ‘Inshorts’ raised $20 million from $4 million – Straight from the founders view

10Jul By AdityaNo Comments

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How ‘Inshorts’ raised $20 million from $4 million – Straight from the founders view

Inshort, a mobile app focused towards providing news to its users in 60 words, has raised $20 million from New York- based Tiger Global investors. The company plans to utilise the raised capital to improve user experience and expand its presence. News in shorts video> News in Shorts, Noida-based firm, founded by Azhar Iqubal, Anunay Pandey and Deepit Purakayastha, has been in this business since 2013. News in shorts started out being a part of Times Internet’s accelerator program called TLabs in 2013. It was then that News in Shorts received its seed funding of Rs 2 crore from angel investors Ankush Nijhawan, Gaurav Bhatnagar and Manish Dhingra along with co-founders of Flipkart—Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal. News in Shorts, in February 2015, raised Rs 25 crore in its series A roun...

Podcast with Arunabh kumar (The Q-tiyapa Guy)

3Jul By AdityaNo Comments

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Podcast with Arunabh kumar (The Q-tiyapa Guy)

While occasions such as Start-up Jalsa provide opportunities to connect with entrepreneurs, it helps team like ours to get talking with people as inspiring as Arunabh Kumar, Founder of TVF. Finished with his part of speaking and meeting fellow entrepreneurs, fully exhausted Arunabh didn't deny our request for a little chat. Team pixr8 and Arunabh sat in a glass-walled cabin, where Arunabh shared his sentiments over today's digital world, Indian film industry, his gutsy attitude to work on a rejected TV show idea (Q-tiyapa), TVF's team and how Shahrukh Khan and Farah Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment has been his learning school. Below are the edited excerpts from the candid chat that team pixr8 had with Arunabh Kumar, Founder TVF media labs. [soundcloud url="https://a...

Innovation the need of the hour for IPL – Lalit modi former IPL Chief

25May By AdityaNo Comments

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Innovation the need of the hour for IPL – Lalit modi former IPL Chief

Editor Note: IPL8 comes to end with gaining in popularity, despite the betting controversies that rocked the tournament last year. But the man behind this idea still feels to do some innovations in the current format of IPL to make a better and fresh approach towards its audience and most important popularizing cricket in other countries. Below we post Mr. Lalit modi views about IPL and where its stand for, have a look... There comes a time in every product's lifespan when it needs to reinvent itself. But, unfortunately, Indian Premier League (IPL), my baby has been left to fend for itself by its foster parents. Over the last five seasons, IPL has tried nothing new and has not set any benchmarks for the rest of the world to follow. Instead what we are l...

15Oct By NitishNo Comments

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Amit Singhal: The master of Google’s “ranking algorithm”

Amit Singhal is the current Senior Vice President and head of head of Google's core ranking team. His main area of interests are Information Retrieval (IR), its application to web search, web graph analysis, and user interfaces for search. Born and brought up In Jhansi this brilliant entrepreneur graduated from IIT Roorkee and the gained his M.S. degree from University of Minnesota Duluth and later in 1996 he entered the prestigious league of Doctorate in the field of Computer Science at Cornell University. According to him, "UMD was the turning point in my life. Studying Information Retrieval with Don Crouch and then Don recommending that I move to Cornell to study with Gerard Salton, is the main reason behind my success today. Don gave me the love for search, I have...