India’s most respected and loved E-commerce site, Flipkart founded by two college friends who studied together at IIT-Delhi and worked together in Amazon. It’s revenue is estimated to be somewhere between $500 million to $1 billion, to create which it has had to pull in around $200 million in venture funding over four rounds till […]
The world is quite large for those who explore and quite small for those who create! People often find it quite difficult when it comes to searching a service, commodity, a person or anything that they seek. With the intervention of Internet, and technically speaking with the help of Search Engines over the internet it […]
According to the U.S. Small Business Association, nearly 540,000 new small businesses start each month. While half of these new ventures will celebrate a five-year anniversary, 70 percent of them will fail within 10 years. While much has been made about a difficult economy over the last eight years, the fact is most businesses fail […]
New Delhi: Realty portal Housing.com has appointed Mani Rangarajan as chief financial officer (CFO) to strengthen its senior management team. Mr Rangarajan has held executive level roles in companies such as Citigroup and Yahoo. He has also been involved with several start-ups in India in advisory roles, SoftBank-backed portal Housing.com said.
Lesson #1: Investors love to make excuses on why they don’t want to invest When we first started pitching Crazy Egg, no investor would write us a check. It wasn’t their fault as my co-founder and I sucked at pitching. They all had different reasons why they didn’t want to invest. After getting over 20 […]
Google Inc has morphed into Alphabet Inc. After U.S. markets closed on Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company that will house Google’s search and Web advertising businesses, maps, YouTube and its “moonshot” ventures such as driverless cars.
There seems to be an endemic mushrooming of new enterprises and entrepreneurs – ‘Startups’ – if you please. A lot of them may not survive the competition and go under. A few of them would live the dream and prosper. Can there be a code or formula that ensures success?
I remember sitting in a tacky cafe in Chennai. It was February 2014 and I was meeting Akshat, one of my brother’s best friends since he was in town for the day. With a glint of excitement in his eyes, he leaned forward and said “I’ve been reading about this organization in South Africa using […]
Reporting Live from InMobi HQ, Bangalore A lot can happen over a cup of coffee, don’t you think? It’s that day of the month at InMobi when the cafeteria is bustling with energy and conversations. With steaming cups of coffee in their hands, InMobians from different departments are seen interacting with each other and discussing […]
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Markus Kirjonen, a student at Aalto University in Finland revealed that a book published in 1999 “Business @ the Speed of Thought”, Bill Gates accurately predicts about future online world. In that book, Bill Gates outlined information systems, the Internet, and technology in general would change the way that businesses function. He made some incredibly […]
Working quietly since 2006, Premji Invest investment firm has built up positions and funded around 40 publicly listed and private companies out of a corpus of $1 billion (Rs4,290 crore). Yet, its operations are shrouded in secrecy and the firm has consciously avoided building a public profile. Premji Invest is a private equity fund owned […]