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Portea Medical Announces Rs. 48 crores funding from Accel Partners and...
Largest Series A venture capital investment in a home healthcare company in India underscores Portea’s leadership and growth prospects Portea Medical, India’s home healthcare pioneer, today announced...
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Two IIIT-Bangalore batchmates who’re pivoting their way to success with muHive
Sagar Vibhute and Ritesh Nayak met in graduate school at IIIT-Bangalore where they became friends and bonded over books, technology and more. Sagar was a Mumbaikar while Ritesh was the Bangalorean and...
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BookMyShow gears up for ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2014
Millions of cricket fans from India and abroad would soon be logging in to BookMyShow.com to buy their tickets for the ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2014 to be held in Bangladesh. With the International...
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The inside story of FashionAndYou’s struggle and survival
Last year, the startup grapevine was abuzz with different versions of what was going on inside FashionAndYou. The spurt of rumours was due to several reasons: Pearl Uppal, co-founder and head of...
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What is truly inspirational?
Discover your true self. Get your success mantra. Dream big. These are a few lines that have been reduced to empty cliches ever since motivational speaking became another million-dollar industry with...
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[Infographic] The Internet of Africa
Google has laid a fibre broadband network in Kampala It’s been about 18 years since the world discovered Internet. At present, about 44% of the global population — that is 2.2 billion people — is...
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Chandoo’s long journey of making people awesome with Excel
Purna Chandra Roa aka Chandoo is the founder of Chandoo.org, which helps people get better at Microsoft Excel. Chandoo launched it in 2004 as a blog, primarily to share new ideas about Microsoft Excel...
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How can a startup invest in R&D without spending the big bucks?
Startups are cash crunched and that is no secret. Be it bootstrapped companies or seed funded, the initial days (of a tech company) are bound to be from small one room offices which has space only for...
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[Techie Tuesday] How a hacker became a neuroscientist. Meet Moran Cerf
Moran Cerf Moran Cerf can be modestly described as the hacker- turned-neuroscientist. Intrigued? Well, that tag is an understatement really. For this 37-year-old, who has worn and discarded many garbs...
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Demystifying DevOps – Part 1
After Cloud Computing, DevOps is the term that gained the attention of customers and industry analysts. Similar to Cloud, DevOps means different things to different people. I have observed architects,...
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Ex Wall Street investment banker launches a fashion label- 335th
Poornima Vardhan Following a successful career as an investment banker with UBS in New York, Poornima Vardhan returned to India to become an entrepreneur. While she was planning to make her move, she...
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Three ex-Amazonians rewrite rules of digital advertising with Sokrati
If online advertising is all about effectiveness, then how do you measure it? There are click through rates, time spent on the page, shares and ‘likes’ — methods that are already in practice. So when...
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Oversubscribed three times, Eventifier raises $500k from Accel Partners and...
“The company was oversubscribed by three times, we set out to raise $250K,” Vijay Anand told me over an email about the latest Eventifier fund raise. Eventifier is tool that helps one create social...
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Vidal Healthcare is trying to make wellness a life choice with preventive...
Remember the old adage, ‘prevention is better than cure?’ Vidal Healthcare is taking this cliché seriously to provide a complete healthcare and wellness solution for the new age, high-stressed working...
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Google Compute Engine (GCE) becomes Generally Available
Google today announced the General Availability (GA) of Compute Engine. Launched during the Google I/O in 2012, Google Compute Engine (GCE) has been in beta for more than year. During initial days, I...
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Amazon isn’t the first to hitch itself to drones, watch the skies for a...
Drones – unmanned small aircraft that are typically flown remotely – have always been talked about in two contexts. One, in the American war on terror where they were used for assaults in tough...
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Cute but useless: The case of Eventvue
“Eventvue failed because it represented a vitamin, not a pain reliever.” It is with this metaphor that Josh Fraser, one of the founders of Eventvue, describes the failure of the venture, which he...
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10 powerful ways to reach out to customers through email at zero cost
Growth hack – use minimum marketing and sales resources to get customers — is a popular strategy now. LinkedIn used it effectively after its launch to get customers. They simply got on to your contact...
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Accel Partners and Ventureast invest $8 million into Portea Medical: Here’s...
“We are delighted to have Accel Partners and Ventureast as our partners. The quantum of funding (INR 48) is the largest ever Series A VC investment in a home healthcare company in India,” said Meena...
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Demystifying DevOps – Part 2
In part 1, we discussed the challenges that software development companies face in handling the demands of the end users. In this second part, I will define DevOps and explain how it is becoming an...
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