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Uber enters India; rolls out first in Bangalore
Mobile app based car rental service, Uber, has launched its service in India. The popular iPhone app, with which you can request for a cab for rent, has chosen Bangalore as the first city, where it...
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CEOs: are you using the right metric to run your business?
The Lean Startup revolution has brought the measuring of metrics into mass startup consciousness, but 90% of the startups our fund meets don’t prioritise the right metric for their business. This might...
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Do we need that horse? Competition vs Goal
In Kalidasa’s epic “Raghuvamsa”, a great king called Dileepa wants to perform a special ceremony called “Ashwamedha yagna”. This yagna is actually an intelligent combination of keeping gods happy,...
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KartRocket launches one-click shipping service ShipRocket, partners with...
KartRocket, a do-it-yourself (DIY) ecommerce platform for Indian SMEs and retailers, has launched a new order-processing and shipping service – ShipRocket. The one-click service, based on the SAAS...
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Transformational service leadership through Karma Yoga – Venkat R. Krishnan,...
How do you inculcate responsible behaviour in B-school students? Through LEP (Leadership Experiential Project) or ‘Karma Yoga’, says Venkat R. Krishnan, Director, Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management...
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So what has dineout been up to since their WebSparks triumph?
Delhi-based restaurant reservation startup dineout has been quietly working on a few interesting additions to their offerings. It’s been not more than 6 months since their WebSparks triumph, and...
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Focusing on flats for students and bachelors, Flat.to consolidates in Mumbai;...
Founded by Gaurav Munjal and ably supported by investor and co-founder Aakrit Vaish, Flat.to is a Mumbai based startup into real estate listing with a niche focus on students looking for places to stay...
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[Friday Learning] Manage, Engage & Leverage Customers
Every customer is precious. Customer expectations management is not an easy task. Many of the early stage companies would have realized this challenge as they try to scale. This article helps...
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Respect customers, that’s the survival secret – G. Kannan, Founder, GK Salon
At a busy intersection in Chennai, where St. Mary’s Road connects with Ramakrishna Mutt Road, is G. Kannan’s shop, ‘GK Gents Hair Saloon & Beauty Parlour A/c’. Standing outside, on the platform,...
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“I will move back to India soon after my stint at the University gets over,”...
It all started with that phone call. Vijaykant N. was done with his stint at the University of Kentucky and he was probably going to work for a Bioinformatics major, in California. He called his...
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Startup Estonia: Skype and beyond
Achoo, Arambla, BlackBook, Cloudseal, Defolio, Edicy, Flirtic, Fortumo, GrabCad, Listhings, Monsavile, Newspin, Photry, Plumbr, Quotista, Sportlyzer, Talentag, Toggl, Utilimon, ZeroTurnAround. That,...
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Altiscale – Ex-Yahoo! CTO takes on the challenge to build an optimized...
Raymie Stata is a visionary technologist who has contributed in multiple ways to the technology world, via development of Hadoop within Yahoo! and played a key role in spinning that project in its...
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Meet Anu Vaidyanathan – a woman achiever and an all-rounder
As a story teller, I love my job. Of the many stories that I have been writing over the last couple of months, there have been a few that have personally tugged at my heart. And this one goes on top of...
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Why did this McKinsey associate quit and start up PrintVenue?
I find corporate employees who leave their jobs to start up quite fascinating. When you’ve got everything going for you, the decision to take everything that you have and turn it upside down, is quite...
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Two tutors start up BookStreet to solve a very Indian problem – Organising...
Sandeep Laxman and Archana Lal have both been tutors. Sandeep is an IIT Delhi alumnus who used to teach students of grade 11, 12 and engineering while Archana is a CA who taught finance related topics....
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A hunger pang one evening in 2005 that gave birth to HungryZone, the Just Eat...
Ritesh Kumar Dwivedy Imagine a cold evening in the office of Ketera Technologies in Bangalore back in 2005. Young Ritesh Dwivedy had recently joined the company and while working, a pang of hunger...
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A song for entrepreneurs
For those who know John Mayer, have probably realised that he’s gone through a metamorphosis of sorts. His classy, bluesy, electric guitar brand of music has been replaced by acoustic, country like...
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[Jobs Round] Dronna, Thrillophilia, FindYogi and many more are looking for...
This week’s job listings has as many openings for content specialist, as it has for technologists. There is also a requirement for people in customer service space. Apart from this, some interesting...
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Five points, someone – Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa, Founder of the Missionaries of Charity, the ‘Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’. Here are the five things that I have learnt from her: 1. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their...
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How Cube26 got 6 Indian Smartphone OEMs to use their gesture control technology
Startups working on a technology which they think will change the world often remain the way it starts out- a dream. It’s difficult for a small company to get a foot into the doorway of the bigger OEMs...
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