19-year-old entrepreneur fights cyber crime
He is a 19-year-old entrepreneur recognized internationally as an ethical hacker, author, cyber-crime consultant and investigator. Meet Trishneet Arora, founder and CTO of TAC Security Solutions. He...
View ArticleKey insights on education startups from EduStars 2013 report to be released...
With the EduStars 2013 finale just around the corner (on December 6, 2013), we studied education startups in India. Extensive data was collected from EduStars applicants over 2012 and 2013 in an...
View ArticleCompass – A company on a mission to radically improve the success rate of...
Compass – Maximizing Business Success by providing dynamic benchmarking via 30+ data sources startups to CEOs, CFOs and Founders to identify problems, set and prioritize objectives, allocate resources...
View ArticleHow innovation in the cloud can power margin growth
Growing your business while shrinking your costs. How do you do that? This post explores how technical and commercial innovation help startups increase their margin and ultimately reach profitability....
View ArticleAn effort to simplify physics with a mobile app: Physics Tutor
Physics is one of those subjects where learning can be a lot more practical. Various concepts can be explained by letting the students experiencing the phenomenon. Arjun S Bharadwaj is an M.Tech...
View ArticleThree IIT-B alumni bring neighbourhood closer with Shaukk
In this age of social networking it is easy to lose ourselves. While Facebook and Google+ connect us to long lost friends and new people, there is the risk of feeling disconnected with real life. I...
View ArticleHow Uber is making inroads into South Africa
Music legend DJ Tira was lucky enough to spot the first one as he was looking for a classy ride back from the airport. THE SHOW IS ON ROAD FOR UBER, the smartphone app that helps passengers hail...
View ArticleFrom working at a photo copy shop to setting up a data center in Indore:...
Narendra Sen grew up in a small village in Madhya Pradesh and used to visit Indore during vacations. He wasn’t exposed to computers and technology even after school but during vacations, he used to...
View ArticleLike Starbucks, do you have an ethical pitch for your brand?
A few years ago, Barb Stegemann came up with an idea to wean farmers in Afghanistan away from cultivating poppy, which is made into heroin. If they would grow orange blossom instead, she would buy the...
View Article4 reasons Indian market is ready for an explosion of education startups
Ed-tech is here to stay. Online education is just starting to boom in India. Test-prep market looks better than ever. Classrooms are becoming smarter by the day. Education delivery models are being...
View Article7 avoidable mistakes first-time entrepreneurs tend to make
It is usual for entrepreneurs to make mistakes. First-time entrepreneurs make more of them. After all, it is common to make more mistakes when you are learning the rules of any new game. The game of...
View Article[Startup Workplaces] A tour of Mumbai based Shopsense- Trying to put...
Shopsense is a Mumbai based startup founded by Farooq Adam, Harsh Shah and Sreeraman MG and are in the business of making shopping better. Backed by Kae Capital and a few other angels, the company is...
View ArticleTaste the thunder with cola man Ramesh Chauhan
Had Big Bite succeeded as a brand it would have taken the thunder out of McDonald’s and KFC. The only reason I am even comparing it with the international brands is because of its founder Ramesh J...
View ArticleCrackMyMBA: Priya Vajpayee’s effort to help students with choices about MBA
India produces one of the largest numbers of MBA graduates in the world. With close to 4000 management schools and four lakh seats available as estimated by AICTE, there exists a big gap in demand and...
View ArticleBangalore Startup Wifinity Among 3 Winners of Hong Kong Government’s Startup...
Bangalore headquartered IoT (Internet of Things) semiconductor startup Wifinity was chosen as one of the three winners of 2013 StartmeupHK Venture Programme, the first global start-up contest designed...
View ArticleUnMuted, a voice raising platform for citizens to improve governance
Ahmedabad based trio Nirmit Parikh, Tanmay Desai and Rakesh Patel have launched an application for improving governance. Unmuted is a voice raising platform for citizens to report civic issues,...
View ArticleWith monthly traffic of 3L visitors, Giveter gets into women’s fashion with...
Giveter is a gifting website founded by Avinash Saxena and Mayank Bhangadia in the middle of 2012. Over the year and a half, this Delhi based company has been at it and has managed to generate good...
View Article5 leadership lessons from the life of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon, has died at the age of 95. There is much to learn from the bold life of Mandela, who taught his country and its people to...
View ArticleEx-Amazonian’s TargetingMantra finds a way online into the minds of customers
How often have you scoured online for a good buy, only to give up in disgust, swearing never to return to that shopping portal? Don’t you find it annoying when you have finished reading a book, and...
View ArticleThank You Mandela For Personifying Ubuntu
Nelson Mandela, you are the greatest story that Africa told the world. Your legacy will live on for forever, generations after generations. You are the personification of Ubuntu. As a geek when you...
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