Want to code by the beaches of Sri Lanka and also get funded?
Hotel Citrus Yes, Sri Lanka also has startups, and plenty of them! One of India’s most prolific investors Rajan Anandan hails from Sri Lanka and he is actively involved in the local Sri Lankan startup...
View ArticleTrying to make flexi-working sexy, will KROW be able to change how the job...
Jobs are a problem across the globe and this knowledge is commonplace. With the number of new job portals coming up, you wouldn’t really sit up expecting to hear something radically different. But when...
View ArticleIt’s Raining Public Clouds – VMware Launches its IaaS
Within a week of Google launching Compute Engine, VMware announced Hybrid Cloud, it’s official Public Cloud offering. At the VMworld event in February, VMware’s CEO, Pat Gelsinger went on record saying...
View ArticleFrom superstar techies to first time entrepreneurial success – The Apalya Story
There is something about entrepreneurs who foresee opportunities. Since 2005, Apalya Technologies have been in the business of providing live television to its users over the air on a wide assortment...
View ArticleReaders respond: Why carpooling will not fail in India
Last week, I wrote an article on why I believed carpooling will not work in India. The gist of my argument is: the problem is not related to technology, but to behavior. Car owners cherish their cars,...
View Article[Startup Hatch] VITTBI: Incubating 8 bio and IT startups in Vellore
[ This article is part of a new series called Startup Hatch, about incubators and accelerators in the startup ecosystem. ] VIT TBI Inauguration Vellore Institute of Technology’s Business Incubator...
View ArticleLetsDine – Social networking for real, over food
In the era of facebook and twitter, people often crib about real interactions waning down. LetsDine is a new startup in the ‘social networking’ space, that tries to address this issue and arranges...
View ArticleHeard about the Singapore Startups’ Walkabout?
We have a lot of startup events happening in India now a days and they’re getting innovative and fun by the day (check out our TechSparks). While we have been on a constant upward path to bring you the...
View ArticlePost funding, Housing.co.in launches operations in Gurgaon, Hyderabad and Pune
After raising two quick rounds of funding, one lead by ex Futurebazaar VP, Zeeshan Hayath and the other lead by ex Network 18 CEO, Haresh Chawla, Mumbai based property listing site, Housing.co.in has...
View ArticleGeetha Narayanan’s journey from starting up with INR 1000 to becoming an...
Geetha Narayanan started her career as a school teacher in 1971 and formed Ujwal Trust with 5 other women and INR 1000 in 1982, with which she a started the Mallya Aditi International School and later...
View Article“Rapid innovation through design thinking”– Workshop in Bangalore with UX...
The Indian startup space is abuzz with talks about design and how a startup should focus more on design than anything else. And we’re not talking about how your site looks. Design is about how you...
View ArticleIs your startup doing the Mexican Wave? Insights on organizational behaviour
The Mexican wave is a metachronal rhythm achieved in a sporting arena through the concurrent vertical displacement & intonation of successive groups of spectators. Yes, one can use fancy words to...
View ArticleTommyJams- creating a better place for music artists and audience
Music festivals and concerts are not a new phenomenon in India, over the past decade or so these events have climbed up the pace. It has witnessed raft of innovation during the same, yet there are many...
View ArticleMobile traffic generated by 3G services in India increases by 196% over a...
Headquartered in Espoo Finland, Nokia Siemens Networks is a specialist in mobile broadband, and operates in over 120 countries and has had net sales of approximately 13.4 billion Euros in 2012. The...
View ArticleMyLooka: A social ERP application high on mobile
A product of TNetwork Solutions, Mylooka is a social Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application meant for small to large companies. Launched in January this year, MyLooka aims to simplify internal...
View Article“Pay-ad: Watch advertisements and get paid” – An enterprising idea from young...
Getting paid for watching advertisements may seem crazy but its for real! This oeuvre is a brainchild of three Mumbaikars who are also chartered accountants in the making. These commerce graduates –...
View ArticleVarthana is on a mission to help affordable education by providing loans to...
India’s large student population, unaffordable private schools, poor quality of public education, limited access to capital to improve infrastructure and the quality of education in the small private...
View ArticleEdfin Consultancy- offering financial consulting to startups and SMEs
It has been said and written about enough that hiring good talent is no cakewalk. And there are many reasons behind this persistent problem. One of the factors contributing to it being the large gap...
View ArticleRMG Learnings: The story of team building through murder mysteries!
Entrepreneurship is a strange desire and a stranger journey. How else could you explain the transition of M D Riti from journalism to a corporate employee trainer who uses murder mysteries as the...
View ArticleGiving wheels to dreams. How SMV Wheels is empowering lives of cycle rickshaw...
By Raina Assainar Dreams and ambition is what keeps us all going. We all dream of something big or small we want to achieve. Incase of a cycle rickshaw puller, one of his dreams is to have ‘Apna...
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