‘Stree Shakti’, empowering women at the foothills of Himalayas
Chinni Swamy They say change begins at home. For Chinni Swamy, it really did, when she started her initiative Stree Shakti with one woman at her own home in village...
View ArticleInterviewing Tips for Startups – Part 3
This post is part 3 of a 3 part article on interviewing tips for startup. The earlier parts are available here – Part 1; Part 2 In part 1 of this article, I shared 3 key tips for conducting interviews....
View ArticleAdIQuity Launches Geo Sense; the importance of Location Based targeting for...
Bangalore based mobile ad network AdIQuity, has announced the launch of a feature which will allow apps using the ad network to reach its consumers of a given target location. The new feature is called...
View ArticleFrom hacking his chemistry paper to being a cyber security expert: Saket...
Saket’s romance with hacking began in school, during a run up to one of his exams. He had just discovered the art of hacking into secure computer systems and his chances of clearing the chemistry paper...
View ArticleCan’t find what you need online? Use Dotmic to make your lives simpler
Quest for knowledge and information often drives people beyond the limits set by norms. For Dipin Karanayil Prakash it was his passion for computers and artificial intelligence that paved the way for...
View ArticleA digital music entrepreneur’s account on Flyte’s Shutdown
India’s biggest e-commerce player, Flipkart shutdown its digital music store Flyte. This comes as a surprise to me given the fact that Flipkart had invested so much in building it. They bought a...
View ArticleHyderabad based GenY Medium raises $0.5 million angel round from Srinath...
GenY Medium is a Hyderabad-based start-up engaged in business of managing perceptions of brands in the online space. In an announcement today, Srinath Devireddy, an angel investor and entrepreneur in...
View Article[YS TV] Manjul Gupta’s journey from a room to a chain of seven salons and...
The interiors of Indira Nagar in Bangalore is a beautiful place. It’s quiet, green and has some of the best shops, quietly tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the noisier main roads. From...
View ArticleOpenbravo launches a software solution for managing Coworking Spaces
Openbravo is a provider of browser-based open source business applications for the cloud, with more than 6,500 organizations in 60 countries.They have offices in India, Mexico, Spain and the United...
View ArticleGlobal Forum on Innovation: Top 30 Digital Startups from around the World
The Global Forum on Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship held this week in South Africa featured a range of workshops, panels and keynotes on startups – and the highlight was the nomination of...
View ArticleWittyGift: Trying to crack the gifting market with a themed gift box model
Gifting is being touted as a huge market currently and many players are privy to this trend. As per American Express estimates, the gift market in India is more than $30 billion annually. Vying for the...
View ArticleEduKart raises $0.5 million from early stage institutional and angel investors
Delhi based Edukart, one of India’s early and leading online education companies, has raised $0.5 million to focus on the Indian online education market. The amount has been raised from a group of...
View ArticleCreating a niche with communication consultancy: Saurabh Parmar’s journey...
Saurabh Parmar graduated from Vellore Institute of Technology with a BTech in IT in 2006 and started his career with IBM. Feeling an urge to do something different, Saurabh switched his focus from...
View ArticleSnapdeal acquires Sequoia backed Shopo.in
Snapdeal.com, India’s largest online marketplace has acquired the assets of Shopo.in, an online marketplace for Indian designer and handcrafted products. Shopo’s investors included Sequoia Capital and...
View ArticleJust Herbs: Dr. Neena Chopra’s entrepreneurial endeavor with organic...
In the beauty business, the world seems to be taking a step back to move ahead. In this shift from chemical products to natural and organic, the customer is sometimes faced with the dilemma of choosing...
View Article[App Fridays] One touch expenser is an expense tracking app that might just...
This column is sponsored by Nokia Asha We all want to be planned with our spendings, but there is a big space between planning and executing, filled with distractions, splurges, binges and impulse...
View ArticleYourStory.in at e27′s Echelon 2013 in Singapore : What to expect
YourStory.in is a media partner for Echelon 2013 which is one of the Asia’s largest tech and business event held over two days in Singapore on the 4th and 5th of June 2013, with a focus on Southeast...
View ArticleIndian Angel Network Announces its Indo-Pak Initiative ‘Startup Dosti’
An Angel Network with over 225 members, the Indian Angel Network (IAN) has funded nearly 50 start-ups across multiple sectors. In 2012, IAN invested in 17 companies totaling US$11 million. In a new...
View Article[YS Lounge] Climbing Mt Startup – Reflections on entrepreneurship and...
Courtesy: www.geographysmileyface.blogspot.in How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end – to know there’s...
View Article[Jobs Roundup] redBus, Springboard91, Wishberry and many more are looking to...
This weeks jobs roundup has startups writing in from places like Vadodara and Jamnagar. While this is from the entrepreneur state of the country, it is interesting to see startups coming from the tier...
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