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2012 PE Investments in India – Down 14.7% to $8.9 Billion
Private Equity firms invested $8,853 million over 406 deals in India during the 12 months ending December 2012, compared to the $10,378 million across 483 deals during the previous year, according to...
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The Top 10 Books of 2012 for Entrepreneurs
2012 has been a terrific year for books about startups, entrepreneurs and the innovation ecosystem! Of the dozens of books received for review by YourStory.in and picked up by its research team from...
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Top 10 Indian Role Models in the Startup Domain
When we called in for nominations for your favourite startup, we also asked for your role models from the Indian startup industry and the people have voiced their opinion (here are the top 10 startups...
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Venture Recap 2012 – E-commerce, Accelerators, Cabs … and More!
While the year 2012 took some macroeconomic sheen off the India growth story, the Indian entrepreneurship juggernaut only moved from strength to strength. As per Venture Intelligence, close to USD 750...
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Want to Startup in Goa? CIBA Has its Arms Open
Goa always brings a smile on a persons face whenever mentioned and so was the case with us when CIBA (Center of Innovation and Business Acceleration) invited us to deliver a talk. The topic was...
View ArticleIndia Deal Digest 01/01/2013 – Last Week of 2012 Roundup
The last week of 2012 was by no means a holiday for the Indian deal scene. This last week saw 3 companies securing funding deals, one acquisition and the launch of a college incubator. Here’s the deal...
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Running A Startup Office – As You Grow
In my last post (Dummies guide on setting up an office space), I described a lot of things about getting an office space, setting it up and some hacks to run it efficiently. While that’s a good...
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Squeakee brings a search engine for deals from local merchants; Is India...
Investor backing at an idea stage is enviable for any entrepreneur. However, it is a sign of great potential in a product, enough for an investor to part with their money in return of equity in its...
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“We’re targeting 100k users in the next one year,” Ashwini Anand of...
Investopresto is an investment portal that helps small investors make smart investment decisions. Having started out back in 2009 in Singapore, the founder Ashwini Anand has managed to grow the company...
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The best time to start a new business was yesterday, but today will also do!
Chris Guillebeau is an entrepreneur, author, blogger and speaker championing the cause of entrepreneurship. He is the author of “The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love,...
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Vaibhav Chidrewar: Rising Above Challenges
The article has been reblogged from Mahindra Rise. If you have a great idea and need a platform to showcase, please submit your idea for Spark The Rise- and get your project funded. When Vaibhav...
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India to have 130 million mobile Internet users by March 2014
India will have 130.6 million mobile internet users by March 2014 according to the Mobile Internet Report by Internet and Mobile Association of India [IAMAI] and IMRB. In December 2012, this number was...
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Hoopz Hopes to Revolutionize Information Delivery to Mobile Devices
While lazing on his couch one day, Akash Sureka was browsing through news on his smartphone. Moving from one site to another in search of specific information, he realized a niggling problem. Akash...
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Baking (Much Needed) Joy in Delhi; Startup Bake Box
Jennifer Duthie is out to make the world a happier (and fatter) place. An early bird in the field of subscription commerce in India, Bake Box is a novel idea built around the concept of gifting boxes...
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Simplifying eCommerce for small businesses; Zepo now launches an about.me for...
“In one simple line, Zepo makes online selling simple & easy,” says founder Nitin Purswani. The claim is that using Zepo, one can open their online store in under 5 minutes and many already have....
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Cloud Telephony Startup KooKoo’s IVR Solution goes Multi-Lingual; Supports 10...
KooKoo’s interactive voice response system (IVR) now supports over 10 Indian languages. In a blog post, the KooKoo team conveyed, “ to support Indian languages at least in a limited domain, we are...
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5 key points to keep in mind while you’re thinking of hiring an SEO firm
Any web based business in today’s world is completely dependent on marketing. It is almost the key to realise the limitless potential that the internet platform provides. With most consumers being on...
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An Entrepreneurs Dilemma- When to scale up your business?
Over the years of our working with entrepreneurs, we have noticed that while there is generally a robust understanding about the start up process and funding requirements, things seem to taper down...
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Unitus Seed Fund lands $ 8 Million for BoP Startups from Early-stage...
Unitus Seed Fund (USF) has secured over $8 million in investment commitments for its seed-stage venture capital fund focused on accelerating “BoP startups” – startups serving low-income consumers – in...
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Harvard grad Rwitwika Bhattacharya wants to Rejuvenate the Indian Political...
Current global patterns are quite intriguing because as the convergence of technology, better lifestyles, and a pronounced concept of democracy are becoming prominent, young people are feeling the need...
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