Inspiring Schoolpreneurs Youngsters are increasingly realizing that entrepreneurship is an important tool for country’s economic and industrial development. Though not in a fast pace, but entrepreneurship is certainly spreading its wings incrementally. Entrepreneurship didn’t exists few years ago, but at this point of time, school students know about it and are willing to experiment with […]
One of the top two online classifieds sites in the country, Quikr saw its losses more that double last fiscal as it sought to stretch its lead over Naspers’ controlled OLX with turbo charged marketing. Quikr, that counts Warburg Pincus, eBay, Kinnevik, Tiger Global, Falcon Edge, Steadview, Matrix Partners, Omidyar and Norwest Venture Partners among […]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (PTI) Top industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in pet care portal DogSpot.in, continuing the slew of investments he has made in various startups globally. However, the value of the investment was not disclosed. “Ratan Tata has invested an undisclosed amount in DogSpot.in. Ronnie Screwala also invested in this round along with […]
Most of us haven’t quite realized there is something extraordinary happening. A few months ago I freed myself from standard-procedure society, I broke the chains of fear that kept me locked up into the system. Since then, I see the world from a different perspective: the one that everything is going through change and that […]
Hiring for startups can be very different from that of large companies. Huge multi-national companies are process driven and need employees who can follow instructions and processes diligently while everyday could be a fire fighting day for a startup. Many startups make the mistake of hiring employees who are merely looking for a job rather […]
Self-drive car rental aggregator JustRide will get up to $50,000 (around Rs 3.3 million) in equity-free seed funding from Google as part of being selected for the internet giant’s startup accelerator programme, Google Launchpad. Google Launchpad is specifically for mobile startups in India, Brazil and Indonesia. The Launchpad accelerator provides a two-week mentorship programme, up to […]
Facebook’s plan to provide free internet to the developing world just hit another hurdle: The Indian regulator is ordering a temporary ban on the service, called Free Basics, reports The Times of India. Free Basics – part of Internet.org – is a service offered by the social network in some emerging markets that lets users […]
A fall in tech valuations may send U.S. and Chinese unicorns running in different directions. Several private Silicon Valley firms worth $1 billion or more have taken valuation hits once they are in the public eye. The same may be happening to one-horned beasts in the People’s Republic, only in private. Take Jack Dorsey’s U.S. online […]
Online skills assessment company Aspiring Minds has acquired online and mobile internship platform, Letsintern, for an undisclosed amount in an all-cash deal. “The constant feedback we got from organisations was that people need practical knowledge and training,” said Himanshu Aggarwal, CEO of Aspiring Minds, who cofounded the company with Varun Aggarwal in 2008. “Internship has […]
Spencer’s Retail has forayed into online space with the acquisition of 100 per cent stake in meragrocer.com at an undisclosed sum to grab 10 per cent of revenue in 4-5 years.The deal is a mixture of debt and equity. This acquisition makes meragrocer.com a subsidiary of Spencer’s, and will form the starting point of Spencer’s […]
The Aditya Birla Group will collaborate with 25 start-ups to bolster its new areas of business in retail, financial services and telecom. The company’s Bizlabs incubation programme, started in October, has named the firms as “collaboration partners” on its website, but is yet to make a formal announcement. [Source] Most of these new firms provide […]
As Startup movement soaring up in India, so there is some war of words would be exchanged as well. To sustain their model and to be in positive cash model, startups are trying to implement every kind of opportunity (By Hook or Crook). In its blog India’s leading Auto aggregator Jugnoo, accused Ola of poaching employees and […]