Thursday, December 19

Tag: startups

Indian Startups get $8.4 bn funding in 2015; Nearly 1k deals inked
26Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
FUNDING, News

Indian Startups get $8.4 bn funding in 2015; Nearly 1k deals inked

Making it a year of startups, Indian and foreign investors have pumped in a whopping USD 8.4 billion in new Indian startup ventures, including e-commerce platforms in 2015 through close to 1,000 deals, even as questions have begun to be asked about their hefty valuations. Those opening the purse for Indian start-up s included industry titans like Ratan Tata and N R Narayana Murthy as also marquee global investors like Alibaba and Softbank. According to data compiled by domestic technology and startup blog, as many as 936 deals worth over USD 8.4 billion have been inked this year -- up from 304 deals worth USD 5 billion that took place in 2014. The industry is looking at a promising 2016, though experts and even the investors anticipate correction on the valuation side. The sectors...
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Tired of Useless Meetings? 9 Ways to Make Them More Effective. (Infographic)
11Dec By PriyankaNo Comments
News

Tired of Useless Meetings? 9 Ways to Make Them More Effective. (Infographic)

Meetings. What a drag they can be. They go longer than they’re supposed to. Someone blabs out of turn or off topic. Your mind drifts to tasks you could be checking off instead of sitting there, stuck. Then come the action items and, tag, you’re it. Your to-do list just got longer. Sound familiar? Sure does to us. But, believe it or not, not all meetings are total timesucks and not all meetings are boring. Some run like clockwork. With an attendee nip here and an agenda tuck there, they can be much more efficient, productive and, if you’re lucky, even a little fun. From holding walk-and-talks outside in the fresh air, to scheduling start times like a Swiss train conductor (we kid you not), here are nine clever ways to have more effective meetings, care of the meeting makers at CT Busi...
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This Newcastle Based Startup Neatly Changed Data Management process!!!
19Nov By AnkitaNo Comments
Story

This Newcastle Based Startup Neatly Changed Data Management process!!!

A couple of years ago a lot of our clients made the change and moved all of their systems from the traditional hardware to the cloud. This was great and opened up a new world for them in terms of functionality and cost, however, it also presented its own challenges. One of these was that there was no longer a central location for all of their data, and they were having to search for different metrics and update internal spreadsheets! So, we decided that it would be great if there was a platform which connected them all together, so that a business could get an overview of their metrics at any time and from any device. And so https://neatly.io was born. We decided on the name ‘neatly’ as the key here was to avoid the use of spreadsheets and manage your data easily and neatly! ...
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What kind of Startup Services a “Bikaneri Sweet Shop” Owner Needs?
18Nov By RishabhNo Comments
BUSINESS

What kind of Startup Services a “Bikaneri Sweet Shop” Owner Needs?

Recently India has popped out as a huge market for the startup world. It is yet developing and is attracting not only corporates but local vendors and distributors. It is not to be reminded how companies, that were started just in a room have now achieved a huge success that used to take centuries to expand to such an outreach within a year or so. Trying to compete and cope up with the market, and bring about a change in his father’s business Mr. Ishan Goel, a 25-year-old, who is well known as the owner of two shops named as “Aggarwal Bikaneri Sweets” both in Sec-16 Noida plans to reach out to it. Mr. Ishan Goel has been in the food industry for 9 years now and has been operating in various fields such as manufacturing, retail, wholesale and commercial retail. He has done his former edu...
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Why these big Corporates like Reliance, Tata, Birla showing interest in startups now
17Sep By No Comments
News

Why these big Corporates like Reliance, Tata, Birla showing interest in startups now

One of Reliance Industries' offices in suburban Mumbai became unusually busy last week. The Reason: a second batch of 10 startups joined the country's largest private firm's four-month acceleration programme, run in partnership with Microsoft Ventures, to help them scale up operations through mentoring and infrastructure support in exchange of technology and ideas. A month ago, a similar initiative was launched by Aditya Birla Group, albeit at a smaller scale. Big Indian family business houses, some of which were still debating whether it's worth foraying into the digital space till about a year ago, are now busy chalking out and implementing strategies to join the digital economy and get leverage from the ongoing startup boom. If you look at the history of conglomerates in the last ...
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Coimbatore is next the startup hub after Bengaluru
20Aug By No Comments
News

Coimbatore is next the startup hub after Bengaluru

In 2012, Dhruv Kumar shifted the base of his online medical advice platform, iCliniq, to Coimbatore after operating it out of Bengaluru for two years. The reason: He didn't want to be overwhelmed or distracted by the hoopla around startups in the tech capital. "I wanted to be out of all the noise and focus on building a quality product," he said during a recent interview. "There are events all the time and the place is flooded with funding stories. Those days, we thought we were a tech startup and did not focus enough on the health and business side." Several young entrepreneurs like Kumar, who started up in Bengaluru are shifting to Coimbatore. Do-PartTime, a part-time job discovery portal, is another example and one of the reasons for the shift was talent retention. "Every comp...
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How online startups like Quora, reddit and Airbnb acquire their first users
17Apr By NitishNo Comments
Story

How online startups like Quora, reddit and Airbnb acquire their first users

For online startups to gain user traction in any domain is a bumpy ride? There is no rocket science, but a perfect marketing strategy which sometimes works like Dropbox, which goes from 5000 to 75,000 users in one night using a video. Same like Dropbox today we are going to share insightful stories of online startups like Quora, Airbnb etc on "How they able to get such large numbers of users in such little amounts of time".     Two online startups giants Quora and reddit solved the "empty site = no users / no users = empty site" problem in the same ways. The founders of both online startups spent the first months filling them with content themselves. On Quora, the founders simply answered and asked lots of questions under their own profiles. But the reddit approach wa...
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Startups Promotion with Internet Marketing in 2015 by Sunita Biddu
31Dec By Sunita bidduNo Comments
BLOGS

Startups Promotion with Internet Marketing in 2015 by Sunita Biddu

With over 243 billion Internet users and 14% growth in 2014, India not only makes the third largest user base in the world but also drove dramatic revolution in business practices and economy. When it comes down to the business world, startups are the closest entities that can benefit the most from this bustling impact of online revolution. There are several startup companies which have turned their small ideas into super revenues by the amazing use of Internet marketing, for example advertising on facebook or other social media platforms. To name a few; Chumbak, Freecharge.in, UrbanLadder, DelhiPedia and more.. So, I am writing this post to share some ideas on how Indian startups can expand using Internet at the fullest. You will be reading what 2015 has in pipeline and what start...
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