What motivates Technical People?
Does this sound familiar: You’ve been looking for a technical person to join your team for a while now, but you simply can’t seem to find them! The technical people you talk to tend to get excited...
View ArticleIndia deal digest 04/02/2013 – Instamojo raises funding from Blume Ventures
Acquisitions, fundings and exits – this pretty much sums up yesterday for the Indian deal space. A Bangalore based startup have been funded, besides an acquisition and an exit. Here is the deal digest...
View ArticleHyderabad based Learnpedia secures angel investment from Ixora Ventures;...
Learnpedia is a Hyderabad based digitalized content provider for engineering test preparations. Founded in 2012 by serial entrepreneur Krishna Rao Akula, it aims at narrowing the learning gap faced by...
View ArticleGE announces the 2013 Global Innovation Barometer Results
The GE Global Innovation Barometer is an international opinion survey of senior business executives actively engaged in the management of their firm innovation strategy. The barometer examines the way...
View ArticleJoe Gebbia takes a class on ‘Presentation’ for the entrepreneurs in Bangalore
Joe Gebbia, chief product officer and co-founder of Airbnb — a online service company that provides a platform for individuals to rent unoccupied living space and other short-term lodging space to...
View Article[YS TV] Weighing BigRock’s prospects in the Indian web domains business with...
India is coming online and DirectI’s, domain name vendor and hosting service, BigRock is going to be a key catalyst to this trend. As one of the leading service providers in this space and one of the...
View ArticleJFDI.Asia Announces the 8 startups for its 2013 accelerator program; Two...
JFDI.Asia is building an innovation academy that accelerates, finances and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. JFDI.Asia’s accelerator ‘bootcamp’ program takes teams of entrepreneurs from idea to...
View ArticleDesign thinking, Engineering and a Problem – The airbnb story, in Joe...
A lot of stars have to align for the birth of a startup. Take Joe Gebbia,’s story for example. When the chief product officer and co-founder of Airbnb quit his job to startup with his friend and design...
View ArticleYourStory holds its inaugural workshop for 2013; Soumitra Sharma of IDG...
Disclaimer: This session was hosted by YourStory.in as part of our YS Workshops for Entrepreneurs Over numerous interactions with entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts, YourStory has repeatedly heard...
View ArticleKochi Startup Village Incubatee iTraveller takes a shot at making a dent in...
When Shiju Radhakrishnan quit his cushy job in Singapore to turn entrepreneur he decided to startup in the area of hospitality. Shiju decided to enter a space already crowded by names like...
View Article[eSparks Speaker] Introducing Bharati Jacob, Founder – Partner, Seedfund
Bharati Jacob – Founder-Partner, Seedfund We’re extremely proud in announcing Bharati Jacob, Founder and Partner at Seedfund as one of the speakers at eSparks 2013, India’s premium eCommerce showcase....
View Article[Exclusive] Serial entrepreneur launches CruxLight – a tool to make reading...
The average internet user is bombarded with 988 Exabytes of information a year. And reams of pages that one has to go through to find the particular information can sometime be overwhelming. Startup...
View Article“Within 4 years, Mobile data traffic will rise to 11.2 exabytes per month”- A...
According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, reaching 11.2 exabytes...
View ArticleTake Care Entrepreneurs
A few weeks ago (Jan 11, 2013), we woke up to the news of Aaron Swartz’ demise. An avid programmer, entrepreneur and an activist, he was known as much for reddit as he was for his crusade to...
View ArticleMobiles for the Masses
This article is a part of the SparkTheRise campaign for which YourStory is an online media partner Joginder is 44 years old but looks older. He collects garbage door to door from flats in a Mumbai...
View ArticleEat Healthy! Mumbaikars can say ‘Bowls To You’ to forced lunches
If you’re a working professional, daily meals is probably not something you’re really happy about. “Same old, same old” is the usual complaint and let’s not even get into the ‘unhealthy’ part of it....
View ArticleMicrosoft Accelerator Announces 13 startups for its second batch
The Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure is a startup accelerator based in Bangalore and will be taking in the second batch now. Out of 350 applications from various sectors, Microsoft today...
View ArticleThe Hatch and Innovative Manitoba partner to create startup networks between...
The Hatch and Innovative Manitoba, two start up support organizations from Indian and Canada respectively announced their strategic partnership to create interconnectivity across India and Canada. By...
View ArticleStarting up with friends: Good idea or Bad?
There are a lot of people who worry about partnering with friends when launching a new startup. The usual worry is that if things go bad, the friendship goes down the drain. There have been many...
View ArticleCouponRani Launches its Coupon API; Ayojak First to Integrate
CouponRani is a couponing startup incubated by Srijan Capital and they have announced the launch of its Coupon API for partners. In a space which looked rather dead, this is a refreshing move by...
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