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Looking For a Loan For Your SME or Startup, Try Cash Suvidha
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Looking For a Loan For Your SME or Startup, Try Cash Suvidha

It would not be an exaggeration to state that the SME sector is one of the most critical contributors to the growth of the Indian economy. In spite of its large size, and the vital role it plays in the country’s economy, the Indian SME sector suffers on account of adequate financial access. Lack of awareness, poor access to banking services, outdated data models, etc, force small businesses to cope with an unhealthy financial environment. As a result, many small businesses either close shop or rely on very expensive and complicated financing, largely from the unorganized lending sector.   INCEPTION AND TEAM Started in April 2016 in Delhi, Cash Suvidha has onboarded over 3,500+ borrowers and Ticket size of loan is Rs 10,000/- to upto 3 Lakh. This online lending platform, was sta...
YellowBulbs- A Website For Startups & SMEs To Find Your Specialist
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YellowBulbs- A Website For Startups & SMEs To Find Your Specialist

“Availability, Priorities, Quality and Lack of experience” The words commonly told by the ones who possess experience working with a freelancer. In recent times, the swift expansion of a freelance market has experienced a significant increase in the number of startups providing opportunities to thousands of freelancers working after school, college or even employees working after their full time jobs. But most of these freelancers face certain challenges such as a student with negligible experience or examinations, causing delay or even working professionals with full time jobs with overloaded work are unable to complete project causing delay, quality issues and so on. The result? Something which you can barely say satisfied even after wasting countless hours and endless revision. ...
Moneyfront – An Online Platform That Helps You To Invest in Mutual Funds Without Any Middleman
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Moneyfront – An Online Platform That Helps You To Invest in Mutual Funds Without Any Middleman

In 2013, SEBI introduced a new concept of investing in Mutual funds. Aptly named as ‘Direct plans’ it offers an alternative to investment in mutual funds where investors can skip the middlemen and invest directly with the fund house. An investor friendly option, Direct plans enable the investor to earn up to 1.5% more returns on their investments, because the distributor commissions are not deducted from the invested values. However, despite its benefits the awareness regarding Direct plans of mutual funds is really low. Few who are aware perceive it to be a time consuming and complicated task. “One of the advantages of Direct Plans is that these come with a lower expense ratio.” The Solution MoneyFront is a key to the act of investing in MFs through direct plans. Being new in the ma...
A 360 Degree View Of Numero Uno’s Delhi Head office
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A 360 Degree View Of Numero Uno’s Delhi Head office

Nestled in the serene environment of Gwal Pahari, Gurgaon, the headquarters of the renowned clothing brand Numero Uno is a classic example of reflecting the business operations of a company into its work space and culture. Oozing an intense look, the office sports an Industrial appearance with raw ceiling and exposed wiring and ducts. The raw masculinity of the office is complimented by colours including Blue, Green, White and Grey being used extensively. Fetching the inspiration to go green as well as set up a productive environment, the company fused the open spaces, work stations and planters for a healthy creative environment. The office’s cafeteria “cafe Uno” is a self service break out area with a Table Tennis table. The overall openness and ability to interact freely w...
Boltt, a Delhi NCR Based Startup Developed AI-enabled Smart Shoes
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Boltt, a Delhi NCR Based Startup Developed AI-enabled Smart Shoes

Boltt, a Delhi NCR-based startup has developed a range of fitness wearables, such as smart shoes and bands, integrated with an artificial intelligence (AI) coach which can provide you a personalised dynamic feedback, based on your real-time performance and training. While a variety of fitness trackers and apps are available, most generate data that users are not able to appropriately interpret. "Consumers usually are not experts in nutrition, fitness activity, sports and wellness and hence deciphering the data most wearables track becomes a challenge," a company official told Pixr8.  "There are dietitians and fitness coach subscriptions available with a lot of fitness devices, but that is human as well as time-bound and means additional investment from the consumer," it said. T...
PDF to Excel- Providing the Necessary Help for Many Small Business Professionals
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PDF to Excel- Providing the Necessary Help for Many Small Business Professionals

The usage of the most popular program in the Microsoft Office suite, the versatile Excel, is in a word - enormous. All around the globe, numerous business people, students and educators alike benefit on a daily basis from this truly handy program. The secret to its success lies in its multi-functional structure of rows and columns, along with a set of progressive mathematical formulas, Excels spreadsheets are ideal for accounting, banking, marketing, bookkeeping, human resources, analysts and many other professions. Almost as an exact opposite to the quality of this software, a rather serious problem can occur while sending Excel files to different computers and devices. Every operating system has its own unique way of reading the formatting of every digital document, so if an Excel file ...
You Take Rest, SERVURANCE App Will Clear The Mess
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You Take Rest, SERVURANCE App Will Clear The Mess

There are so many things in our day to day life that we depend on manual help for, for our basic necessities and getting that services on time and with minimum efforts becomes very tedious. How about an online access and a user friendly application for major and even minor household tasks like cleaning and other stuffs? Cleansening and hygiene go hand in hand and we often overlook their importance. An app called SERVURANCE provides solution to this problem and strikes just the right chord. Servurance, the application, gives premium Deep Cleaning Services to Homes and Offices in Delhi/NCR and other metro cities. Servurance uses world class hardware and cleaning specialists to clean and sterilize your home. Their staff is well rounded, prepared and confirmed to guarantee your well bein...
Satoshi Studios, South East Asia’s First Blockchain Incubator, Opens Applications for 1st Batch
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Satoshi Studios, South East Asia’s First Blockchain Incubator, Opens Applications for 1st Batch

South East Asia has got its first blockchain incubator and it's started by the team behind GBMiners.com (South East Asia's largest bitcoin mining pool), and backed/invested by Amit Bharadwaj. The incubator is very aptly named Satoshi Studios and is inviting applications from entrepreneurs working in the South East Asia region. The incubator has a 3-month intensive residence program in New Delhi, India, where the founders will spend time with the GBMiners team and other blockchain startups and receive 50K USD in funding for 8%-15% equity in the company. "Our vision is to build New Delhi (India) as the Blockchain Knowledge Hub of Southeast Asia," says Amit Bhardwaj. Speaking on the topic, Amit said, "South East Asia and bitcoin adoption will be a very symbiotic relationship. The region is...
Sheroes Hangout – A Café and Restaurant Run By Acid Attack Survivors in Lucknow
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Sheroes Hangout – A Café and Restaurant Run By Acid Attack Survivors in Lucknow

Yahi hota aaya hai, mujhe mat samjhaao Main tumhaare saath hun, keh kar mujhe mat phuslaao Main jeetungin kyunki aane waale kal ki mujhse shuruaat hogi Tumhe lagta hai ye mere bas ki nahin? Meri in aankhon mein jhaank kar dekho Main aane waale tooofaan ki shuruaat hoon. - Girl Child Rising   HEROES. SHEROES. Do we ever wonder what all goes on around us and how in a world full of educated people, we miss out on people who genuinely need our attention? We live in a world of misogyny, we live in a world of patriarchy but isn’t it hightime we saw those crashing down to equality? I see people talking about Feminism all over Social Media but I really want to just take this opportunity and say it out that Feminism is not majorly for those who have access to Social Media. It is for ...
Like Emerge App Why Your First B2B SaaS Should Be Free
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Like Emerge App Why Your First B2B SaaS Should Be Free

A good product often is the lifeline of many startups, and represents the collective dreams of the team. A good product should also be free or really low cost, if the company is looking to genuinely make society for the better. To that end, we want to offer our software free for the first user of each company. More than just making a quick buck, we want to bring real value to SMBs, of which there are 50 million in India alone. Interested? EMERGE App is tackling a major headache that trading and distribution companies have as more avenues have opened up for consumers and companies to interact. Order processing and inventory management solutions are highly sought after, numbering about 77 million results alone in Google, as companies need to cut down the inefficiencies, save costs, ...
Enchantico- India’s First Book Subscription Box For Kids
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Enchantico- India’s First Book Subscription Box For Kids

Enchantico is an idea meant to bring delight to every child’s life. This enterprise wants to explore the world of imagination for the children and help them to do so through books and a world of activities and collectibles connected to the books. This brilliant idea came to three people, who already have a deep connection with the world of books- Ravi Subramanian, Enchantico’s Co- Founder and Chief Advisor, Sangram Surve, the Co-Founder and Chief Contagion Agent and Shalini Bajaj, the Co - Founder and Chief Delight Officer. While Ravi is one of India’s best selling Fiction authors, Shalini and Sangram have been the marketing brains behind most of the best selling popular fiction authors in the country.   From writing the best-selling books to marketing them and also organ...
Decoding: Why Pierce Brosnan aka James Bond Endorse Indian Tobacco Brand Pan Bahar?
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Decoding: Why Pierce Brosnan aka James Bond Endorse Indian Tobacco Brand Pan Bahar?

Why Pierce Brosnan is desperate enough to endorse a Pan Bahar brand? My friend asked after seeing the full page Pan Bahar ad on newspaper. Is he lost the shine in Hollywood or Indian company are capable enough to convince him for this ad? The choice of pan masala ad from Brosnan might be because of his Bond films gaining a lot of traction in India. Rural folk in India love uncomplicated spy thrillers and action films with fight sequences (A market discovered unintentionally by Mithun Chakraborty)- which is never in short supply from the English movies from US and UK. Most of such English films are dubbed to Hindi and other regional languages for the benefit of the rural audience. The rural men are the prime focus of business for this company. Pierce Brosnan is not new to the Indian adver...