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This world is called karma bhoomi, and work is itself a gift

On Janmashtami, while celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna, what generally grab our attention are the colourful festive dances and the whole array of puja offerings. It may help also to think for a...

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Translate chat messages to your local language using JusChat

According to reports, India has anywhere between 40 and 70 million smartphone users. Put that in perspective with the 900 million plus mobile phone subscribers in India. The growth of smartphone...

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Morpheus Fund acquires 8% of TVC Skyshop for Rs 42 crore

Morpheus Fund, a private equity fund led by former IMG India head Balu Nayar, has made a primary investment of Rs. 42 crore for a 8% stake in TVC Skyshop, valuing the company at Rs 500 crore. Founded...

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Thai entrepreneur Patai Padungtin aims to digitize the construction industry...

Patai Padungtin is one of the well-known entrepreneurs in Thailand. He started an uncoventional tech business in Thailand way back in 2005, and achieved significant success and scale. However, Patai...

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“Thousand new stores a week,” Harley Finkelstein, Shopify CPO on India market

Shopify’s suite of offerings enables small business owners to sell online. With Shopify you can create an ecommerce store in a few minutes. World over, Shopify powers 60,000 online stores. We at...

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25% of startups angel funded in 2011 have received follow up funds

Funding for a startup is a matter of celebration for any upcoming startup economy. Once we realize, that funding is almost like the start of a journey, more important questions like growth and scale...

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i-dream conducts training workshops in school for promoting eco-friendly...

There could be various reasons for one to start his/her venture. While in most cases, passion and solution to a problem/ pain lead to entrepreneurship, for some, a cause becomes motivation for starting...

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[Book Review] Cellphone Nation: How Mobile Phones Have Revolutionised...

by Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron 2013 Hachette India http://www.amazon.in/Cell-Phone-Nation-Revolutionized-Business/dp/9350093545 8 chapters, 293 pages This terrific book on the mobile revolution in...

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How a group of experienced entrepreneurs “Connovate-ed” to build India’s own...

Connovate Technologies is a Bangalore-based IT product and services company. It is founded by people with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. So experienced is the team, that the core...

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Focus on tourist destinations in Tier II and III cities – Dhitrax.com

Finally consumer perception is changing towards online hotel booking, especially among the working class in urban cities. PhoCusWright, a global travel market research company, says revenue generated...

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Singapore based accelerator JFDI.Asia announces 10 startups for its latest batch

JFDI.Asia is a Singapore based accelerator that announced the opening up of applications for its 2nd batch of 2013 in June and has now picked the 10 companies that will undergo accelerator from the...

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Social Drones: Following a dream to make drones for the good

Rajesh Mane, Aniket Tatipamula, and Neeraj Waghchaure were batchmates at the VJTI college in Mumbai studying engineering. They were always passionate about building drones for the good and showing that...

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Knimbus democratising research, by helping discovery and sharing of scholarly...

It was recently announced that the government would dedicate 2% of the country’s GDP in research activities. But what is the status of research in India? I got the answer to this question in a...

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Bangalore based Kuliza receives strategic investment from Blume Ventures

Kuliza is a Bangalore based software development company founded in September 2006. The company builds web, mobile and social media experiences for Indian and global clients and in an announcement...

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“I would rather get the size of market wrong, not the entrepreneur” – Sasha...

Sasha Mirchandani of Kae Capital belongs to the family of entrepreneurs that built the Onida brand, ground up. His family started MIRC Electronics and created the Onida brand — one of the most...

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Indian women like being entrepreneurs

If entrepreneurship is on the rise, then women entrepreneurship is having an equal amount of buzz. A recent survey conducted by Greyhound Sculpt, of Greyhound Knowledge Group, revealed that 50% women...

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Grocery etailing (FMCG/CPG) can’t be seen and treated as other categories:...

Online retailing, which currently constitutes 6% of total ecommerce market in India, is set to touch $76 billion by 2021 in the country, according to a study by Technopak. While etailing-friendly...

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You can’t be a one-man show – Startup Hiring

Everyone should visit the kitchen of a big restaurant. There is a main chef, a sous chef, and many others working under their guidance. You’ll not find the head chef single-handedly trying to do...

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Meograph announces Facebook integration, makes interactive storytelling social

Meograh is a 4 dimensional online story telling tool which lets one create interactive multimedia stories. Founded by San Francisco based entrepreneurs Misha Leybovich and Francis, the company is...

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IRCTC’s shopping website gets live, plans to snap up Rs 200 crore in next one...

Government-owned railway ticketing portal IRCTC has launched its online retail website shop.irctc.co.in. Currently, the website showcases over 30,000 products across seven categories, named men, women,...

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