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Mohandas Pai backed Tandem Capital announces $100 Mn fund, includes three...
Silicon Valley based mobile accelerator Tandem Capital has announced its latest fund named Tandem Habit fund III with its batch of startups including, AcceptPay, PacketZoom and Shoptimize. As per an...
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[Book Review] Future Asia: The New Gold Rush in the East
Future Asia written by Rajiv Biswas looks at how a consumer and business revolution driven by Asia will sweep through the world order in the next decade. With its traditional growth engines in the US...
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An Insight into Startup Leadership Program- In Conversation with Past Fellows
Defined much by ‘peer-to-peer education for startup CEOs’, Startup Leadership Program(SLP) was founded in year 2006 by Anupendra Sharma & Puran Dang. Currently SLP is present in 24 chapters across...
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Sandeep Aggarwal case: Lessons for professionals
“Aggarwal tipped Richard Lee, portfolio manager at #SAC Capital, about pending deal between @Microsoft & @Yahoo.” Thus reads the last of the series of tweets about Sandeep Aggarwal on FBI New...
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IdeaSpace backed Filipino startup Wegen wants to become a global player in...
The companies that we all look up to today in awe were startups years back. And many of them had the first mover advantage in the space they ventured into. We are again witness to some startups moving...
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Art ecom site Crude Area, raises seed funding from angel investors
Crude Area recently raised a round of funding from a syndicate of angel investors. The investment round has been led by Webchutney founders Sidharth Rao and Sudesh Samaria along with two other angel...
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Gozoop acquires Red Digital, Grows to 100+ member team
Mumbai based digital agency Gozoop, which recently expanded its global presence by setting up operations in Singapore, has today announced the acquisition of Red Digital, an Indian social media...
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A coming of Age of Venture Class Returns in India
There is a coming of age of Indian Internet companies and of “venture-class” returns from investments. As early investors in redBus, we at Inventus Capital Partners realized high double-digit returns...
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ixigo goes offline with mixigo- a community for travelers
ixigo.com, a travel planning & search engine has launched a community initiative “mixigo” – an offline mixer for travelers to network and share their travel experiences. The first mixigo was held...
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GrabHouse.com, a brokerage free solution securing a house
Professional expats, especially those who come to metros often have a single complaint – getting a good accommodation. So if it was mostly that estate agent, or some relative who helped you find the...
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[YS TV] 10 gaps to success – Murugavel Janakiraman of BharatMatrimony
TechSparks as a platform believes in showcasing Indian entreprenurship story, and we could not have asked for a better storyteller than this man. It was a homecoming of sorts for Murugavel Janakiraman,...
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Cleartrip ties up with Rome2Rio to launch Waytogo- A search platform for...
Lots of interesting things are happening in the travel space in India (see how the whole funnel looks like) and startups are coming up with new ways to aid how and where people travel. Cleartrip has...
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6 million mobile phones to be given to BPL families
Apparently to woo the voters in the next Lok Sabha elections, the UPA-led central government has announced that mobile phones will be given to six million families that live below poverty line (BPL)....
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Gurgaon-based IndiaCollegeSearch raises angel round from IAN’s members Anupam...
Gurgaon-based IndiaCollegeSearch, an online search engine for colleges, courses and universities has raised under $1 million from Indian Angel Network (IAN) members Anupam Mittal, Vikram Upadhyaya,...
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[Official Statement] ShopClues Founder Sandeep Agarwal ‘released on bond’
ShopClues has released a public statement regarding the arrest of it’s founder Sandeep Agarwal, by the FBI, saying that he was briefly taken into custody and subsequently released on bond. The release...
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To Consume or Not to Consume
No, I am not talking about the holiday food or alcohol. You know what happens when you consume too much food. It will affect your body, mind and spirit (in that order) negatively. I don’t know how else...
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Where should money be invested in eCommerce? On the idea or the founder?
Yesterday we woke up to the news of ShopClues founder Sandeep Agarwal being arrested for insider trading charges by the FBI. Subsequently he has been released on bond and the matter in under...
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Five points, someone Paul Graham, Co-founder of Y Combinator
Here are the five things that I have picked up from him: You can’t directly control where your thoughts drift. If you’re controlling them, they’re not drifting. But you can control them indirectly, by...
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Philippines needs angel investors – Tina Amper of TechTalks.ph
What do startups need to grow? A conducive and supportive environment where one can learn and flourish – an ecosystem as we call it. The major hue and cry revolves around the immature startup...
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CoFoundersLab, a US based matchmaking portal for entrepreneurs is now open...
Starting up alone or finding a co-founder is always a debate and both have their pros and cons but more often than not, we see companies having co-founders. Having a good balance of skills at the top...
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