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From Singapore To India – A Journey of ZingoHub Crowdfunding Platform

15Oct By NitishNo Comments

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From Singapore To India – A Journey of ZingoHub Crowdfunding Platform

Crowdfunding is a fresh concept that has emerged as a sustenance for budding creators and innovators to turn their ideas into a corporeality. In the recent years, the crowdfunding industry has grown multifold and has helped crowdfunding projects grow into great business ventures. In the world of small biz, it has become one of the go-to choices for startups and provided them financial support to get off the ground. Simplifying the concept of crowdfunding and pushing aside the hand-wringing of startups, ZingoHub is a platform that comes to the rescue! PRODUCT Company: ZingoHub Location: Singapore Est. In: 2015 Team: Sayantan Das(Co-founder), Haider Aly-Reza(Co-...

$943 Million – the Loss to Indian Economy From Internet Shutdowns

8Oct By NitishNo Comments

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$943 Million – the Loss to Indian Economy From Internet Shutdowns

22 internet shutdowns that occurred in India between 2015 to 2016 cost the country’s economy an astonishing $968 million, contributing to a total global cost of $2.4 billion, says Darrell West in a study published by Centre for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution. Citing the example of one such instance West says India disrupted Internet services in response to concerns over students cheating on exams. An Indian official said, "considering the sensitive nature of the exam for recruitment of talents, internet service providers have been asked to shut down all internet-based social media services from 9am to 1 pm to prevent the mobile misuse during exams. " In many other instances, Regional Indian officials also ordered disruptions in response to public security concerns. ...

Weblistr- Where There is a Need, There is a Website!

18Sep By AnkitaNo Comments

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Weblistr- Where There is a Need, There is a Website!

Online businesses and Startups in India are growing at an astronomical speed. Today where everything is available online, any product or service need can be resolved in mere clicks. Where there is a need, there is a website/app to fulfill it, unfortunately, the visibility of these websites is quite limited to the general internet users. Knowing where to get what online is the problem. Weblistr, India’s No. #1 online shopping guide aims at solving this problem. Weblistr is a one of a kind startup that accumulates useful information from e-commerce websites and apps across 20+ categories such as fashion, home décor, travel, food delivery, jobs, healthcare, education etc. It also has user generated ratings and reviews for online startups on their platform. The platform hosts over 500 websit...

How Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Fooled us in the Name of Cheaper Data

17Sep By VishwadeepakNo Comments

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How Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Fooled us in the Name of Cheaper Data

Disclaimer: We got this brilliant analytical piece about newly launched Reliance Jio scheme (of almost free data) from WhatsApp. We are publishing it because it shows the other side – which is obviously not so good - of the so called revolutionary idea, to promote awareness. In the name of fulfilling PM Modi’s dream for Digital India, Reliance used his image in its full page advertisement but the question remains unanswered. How will it help India to be more Digital ? Did Reliance Jio make false promises to make profit? Is Reliance Making the hay while sun is shining? We would like to know the name of the author. If any one can send us, that will be a great help. I must admit that I was euphoric over the Reliance Jio launch. Also, thanks to the media hype, I initial...

Looking for Alternative Investment Options – Visit i2iFunding.com

16Sep By NitishNo Comments

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Looking for Alternative Investment Options – Visit i2iFunding.com

Technological disruptions have not left financial sector out of its impact and India currently has several fintech startups developing out from its cocoon. Fintech startups mostly confined of online payment wallets and now online lending marketplaces. i2ifunding a Peer to Peer platform where an individual can borrow money at a desired rate of interest and an investor can lend to retail borrowers according to their interest rates. While P2P lending is still at a nascent stage in India, it is one of the leading means of financing in countries such as the US, the UK, Germany, China etc. and many p2p players have grown to become Billion dollar companies. It has been growing in leaps and bounds around the world, thanks to an increase in the internet penetration and tremendous acceptability of...

Easytenants: An Entrepreneur’s Personal Experience as a Single Tenant in India Turned into an Amazing Business Idea

12Sep By Saumya SunderNo Comments

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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...

Add Wise Steps in Your Shop Using Wiseretail, An Inventory Management Platform Backed by Nike

9Sep By RishabhNo Comments

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Add Wise Steps in Your Shop Using Wiseretail, An Inventory Management Platform Backed by Nike

How many times it has happened to you that you get all buckled up and walk into a showroom to purchase an item that you’ve researched all along, and the day you finally reach the showroom, it goes out of stock! People are now smarter than they were some years ago. They research for every article before carrying out purchase. Though these items are available online, yet only 5% of the customers choose to transact from there. The rest 95% still choose offline stores to “touch and feel” the products before they actually purchase it. Until now, the customers had two options; either go online or offline! But recently an attempt has been made by YNG Media’s experts as- Wiseretail to bridge that gap. What is Wiseretail? Wiseretail is an interactive-platform which happens to solve t...

This is How Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Will Make Money

4Sep By AnkitaNo Comments

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This is How Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Will Make Money

16th July 2016: The Indian Telecom Market - Basic Facts There are 100 crores of mobile users in India (1 billion). This means 80% of India is connected to mobile phones (voice calling) However, only 34% of India’s population is connected to the internet. Among those using mobile phones, only 10% use 3G data or above. If you were a telecom company, you would realize that there isn’t going to be a lot of movement in voice now. This is because almost all people have mobile phones. The next big challenge is the internet. Future lies in using data on your mobile phones. Hence, the smartest move now is to invest in building your infrastructure for the future. Here is why nothing else matters - When you have data, you don’t care about messaging. Who really uses SMS after the ...

Decoding: Why Food Tech Startups Are Not Successful in India?

30Aug By NitishNo Comments

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Decoding: Why Food Tech Startups Are Not Successful in India?

Last year before Diwali we covered an interview of a 25-year-old Bikaneri sweet shop owner from Noida "What kind of Startup Services a “Bikaneri Sweet Shop” Owner Needs?". Here we mentioned each and every point of a sweet shop owner needs from food tech startups. Though after a gap of one year we still feel that none of the food tech startups taking a lesson from it. Due to lack of perfect business model and strategy, most of the shop owners stop using online food services. Reasons Why Businesses Had to Scale Down Indian market is not mature enough to order food online. They only order food when there is a discount. Sad but true. We saw 100–150 orders from the single restaurant just for dinner on weekends when foodpanda was running a discount. Immediate next week when foodpand...

This Bootstrapped Ad Tech Platform is Next To Go Big

25Aug By NitishNo Comments

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This Bootstrapped Ad Tech Platform is Next To Go Big

Company: Bidsopt About: Bidsopt is a Mobile Demand Side Platform (DSP) connecting mobile advertisers and users in real time. Started: October, 2014 Co-founders: Jomith George, Kevin Eugene, Manimaran Babu, Venkatesh Rajagopal Article is For: Company, Startups and Mobile advertisers Recently, we came across a news about two Indian brothers sold their ad tech business in $900 million. So like these two brothers we met 4 co-founders operating next big thing in ad-tech business. We are a global ad tech company with most of our clients from different parts of the world. Currently we run campaigns from more than 100+ Advertisers and constantly innovating our platform to meet advertiser demand , said Jomith George one of the co- founders of Bidsopt. Headquartered in Sin...

Meet An Indian Startup Which is Famous Outside of India

8Aug By NitishNo Comments

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Meet An Indian Startup Which is Famous Outside of India

There is one question, which always come to our mind whenever we use Facebook, Google and other platforms. Is there any Indian company established its footprint globally like them? Most people don't have answer of it. Why? Because due to less exposure or marketing, we are unable to find out such Indian companies. But today we are introducing one such unknown company, whom you never heard of. The Indian company based in Bengaluru silently established its footprint globally including US, UK & other countries army region. Founded by Arvind Lakshmikumar, Tonbo, a Bengaluru based advanced night vision system, which means Dragonfly in Japanese. The startup is backed by Artiman Ventures. Arvind is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and Carnegie Mellon U...

How Apple Backing Helped China’s Taxi Aggregator Didi Chuxing To Outrun Uber in China

4Aug By reutersNo Comments

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How Apple Backing Helped China’s Taxi Aggregator Didi Chuxing To Outrun Uber in China

Apple Inc's $1 billion investment in car-hailing app Didi Chuxing in May helped accelerate Uber's decision to agree a halt to a costly two-year battle with its rival in China, people close to the companies and analysts said. Didi Chuxing Technology Co and Uber Technologies Inc raised billions of dollars in funding and spent heavily on discounted rides as they slugged it out for drivers, passengers and market share in the world's second-biggest economy. Uber finally ceded this week, realizing it was no match for a cash-rich rival with the backing of three of the world's largest technology giants. It agreed to give up its independence in return for a nearly one-fifth stake in a bigger Didi. Didi raised far more money than Uber China making China the first market where Uber's strategy of...