Tips To Bear in Mind Before and After Fund Raising
After having interacted with various early stage entrepreneurs over the past few years, I am attempting to collate a list of some of my tips for entrepreneurs/promoters who are either in the process of...
View ArticleMr Button, Helping Men Get Dressed, In Style
Young entrepreneurs are starting up in areas unheard of. For instance, fashion segment which was once considered the domain of women is slowly giving way to men. And betting big on this shift are...
View ArticlePurchase Property of a Different Kind, on NPAsource.com
Sample this, according to available statistics, Non Performing Assets (NPA)s for all banks rose to 3.6 per cent in September 2012 and is expected to reach 4.4 per cent in March 2014. Given this large...
View ArticleWhat Social Media is Not
Note: This is the third article in the 7 part series on social media contributed by Xerago. First article here and second here Cynicism is sometimes a good quality, a quality important to a marketer....
View ArticleCitrus Pay confirms $2 million funding from Sequoia Capital; Mohit Bhatnagar...
Reports of Sequoia capital’s investment in Citrus Pay, in mid 2012 was confirmed today at a press meeting. The meet was presided by Mohit Bhatnagar, MD Sequoia Capital, who is on the Citrus Pay’s...
View ArticleNASSCOM’s Big Bang Announcement Today- Launches “10,000 Start-ups Program”
Eric Schmidt, Som Mittal At an event in New Delhi today, Som Mittal, the President of NASSCOM announced the “10,000 Startups” Program, which aims to incubate and nurture a mammoth 10,000 startups in...
View ArticleEric Schmidt Up Close & Personal at Nasscom for Startups Event, New Delhi
Nasscom today announced its ambitious 10 year plan to incubate and nurture 10,000 startups. The program, known as the 10,000 Start-ups program for which YourStory.in is a partner, was announced at an...
View ArticleFreshdesk Launches FreshThemes, Designed To Enhance Customer Support Experience
Freshdesk, a fast emerging cloud-based customer support platform, today announced the launch of FreshThemes, a suite of new customization capabilities that allow companies to tailor their customer...
View Article“Go Travelling. Take in experiences” Urges startup Travspire
Arjun Bhat Is travel the next big wave? Predictions aside I’d like relate travel to entrepreneurship. Both are liberating, both give you that sense of freedom. And probably this is the reason why we’re...
View ArticleWhere Knowledge Management and Social Media Meet
Most organizations today struggle to effectively manage their rapidly growing volume of vital corporate knowledge which is being trapped in information silos like email inbox’s. They have a limited...
View ArticleThe Awesome Startup Employee – Tapas Sarkar, Housing.co.in
As a part of our ‘Awesome Startup Employee Series’, today we profile Tapas Sarkar, the sales lead of Housing.co.in. Selling for a funded company is a huge responsibility and Tapas knows it best… Tapas...
View ArticleHealthcare startup Biosense secures $500K funding from GSF India and Insitor...
A startup in the low cost medical devices segment, Biosense is the brainchild of four socially driven founders from Mumbai. In an announcement today, Biosense has secured funding worth $500k from GSF...
View ArticleIndian Product Companies! Proudly wear the ‘Made In India’ Tag
Over the last few years, we’ve seen some great software products built out of India. However, companies still shy away from displaying the ‘Made in India’ tag. Many successful (and aspiring) companies...
View ArticleWhy did GupShup Extend its Messaging Service to the Internet?
India accounts for about one fifth of the total number of mobile subscribers in the world. However, of the 900 million subscriber base, only 11% access the internet via mobile devices. At 100...
View ArticleA week to go before the social experiment takes flight in Goa
Creativity often gets strangled by boundaries. In India, we’ve rarely seen people from various spheres come together to mingle; tech guys network with other techies, artists flock to other artists and...
View ArticleTwoly Madly Deeply in association with YourStory.in announces ‘Bootstrap Love’
Being an entrepreneur is an enviable journey and a thankless job, at the same time! On the one hand, there is the unadulterated exhilaration of creating something potentially world changing. On the...
View ArticleProviding a vent to the “Who am I?” angst within young India- Qyuki
Poonacha Machaiah When you associate Shekhar Kapur and A.R.Rahman with a product, you’re bound to create waves. Good friends with Shekhar Kapur, Poonacha Machaiah has spent close to two decades in the...
View ArticleDesigning Products For Power Users
The v1 of any product is (hopefully) designed to be simple and straightforward to use, allowing users to jump straight into the product and start using it, deriving value from it in minutes. This key...
View ArticleAdvertising and UX expert duo startup IdeaDemocracy
Yahoo might have stopped the work-from-home policy for its employees, but elsewhere, it’s still on. This liberty of working at one’s own pace is exercised a lot by people with a creative bent of mind....
View ArticleSamtana: Organic T-Shirts with the globally sourced designs
Samtana is an eCommerce company that produces organic t-shirts. Based in Bangalore, Samtana is co-founded by Ben Heinkel and Bharath Madhiraju, who decided to bring together talented artists and...
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