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#Budget2016 Key Highlights For Startup Ecosystem

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#Budget2016 Key Highlights For Startup Ecosystem

The third budget of Mr. Jaitely under the BJP led government has great offerings for the Startup world. Start-up India, Stand-Up India’ plan is most visible campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government which will boost jobs and investments in India. The campaign promotes & encourage entrepreneurs to start new firms that are not inspired by traditional businesses, is capable of generating jobs, and build an economy driven by technology and science. We spoke to Jaspal Singh co-founder of TaxZippy.com, India's largest Income tax filing site and he felt that this budget had a focus on startups as they are growing industry and help boom the economy. He also added that the budget has reinstated a positive push to the startup ecosystem. Here are the pointers placed by him. &nbs...

5nance Solving Money Problems of 98% Indians

Less than 2% of the Indians know where to invest, and the rest need guidance and advisory support to plan their financials. While Dinesh Rohira was working at Microsoft, he had conceptualized and delivered an online platform for distribution of all investment products. “This triggered the idea of financial planning to be provided via a technology platform that can address the masses (the 98%) who don’t know much about investments,” says the founder Dinesh. He started up 5nance.com with Ajay Arjit Singh to solve the problem of money management. All our personal experiences and financial decisions are taken basis an excel sheet. It becomes the most enabling factor towards all our personal finances. The same was experienced by the founders which made them start a Proactive Money Management ...

Babajob.com Joins Facebook’s SME India Council

In a significant development today, babajob.com, India's largest online job marketplace for the informal sector, was identified as a member of the SME India Council set up by Facebook in Asia-Pacific today. Facebook, which has over two million Indian small and medium businesses (SMBs) on its platform, has set up a SME Council to help small ventures from various industries share feedback and discuss ideas around leveraging technology to grow their enterprise. This is the second SME Council set up by Facebook globally, the first one being in the US. Globally, over 45 million small businesses actively use Facebook pages to connect to their consumers. In a post, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg mentioned that "Babajob.com, a job site in India, which uses Internet.org's Free Basic Services app, ...