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Diwali 2011. On a day when nearly the entire country is off celebrating, in a room smaller than 10 feet by 10 feet, in the second basement of an industrial building in Vile Parle, Mumbai, CitrusPay...
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“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Well, Ajay Yadav went a step further – he not only made lemonade but also managed to grab tequila and salt worth $6 Mn along with it! It was 2007 when Ajay...
View Article1.5 Mn Visitors, 8K Sellers, 11% M-o-M Growth: How Indiamart’s Tolexo Went...
What does a nearly two-decade-old, traditionally-run, industrial business and a B2B ecommerce startup have in common? In the case of IndiaMART’s Tolexo, as it turns out, everything. IndiaMART has been...
View ArticleHR Management Goes Mobile: How Microsoft Backed ZingHR Is Using Cloud For...
When one thinks of HR, the first thing that comes to mind is payroll processing, maintaining a record book on leaves and attendance, managing travel expenses, performance appraisals, and such...
View ArticleHow Blume Backed DataWeave Combines Retail Intelligence With Actionable...
“In the last century, oil was god. In this one, it’s data.” Truer words have not been spoken as data – the mining of it, understanding it, and using it to leverage consumer behaviour is the next big...
View ArticleFrom Hong Kong To India: P2P Lending Marketplace Monexo Wants To Make Getting...
“My father wanted to grow his business back in the 1980s by raising debt. And I would see him go from bank to bank, carrying three suitcases with him to apply for a simple loan.” That childhood...
View ArticleHow Fitness Aggregator Platform BookYourGame Is Levelling Up By Integrating...
“I’m so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!” – Ellen Degeneres Well! This is the story of many people around us. While some get burdened with twelve-hour workdays and stretched schedules, others...
View ArticleThe 91springboard Story – 3 Friends, Beer, And A Failed Fund
“I thought I invented the term ‘coworking,’ says Pranay Gupta, one of the six co-founders of 91springboard.com with a wry smile as we settle in the cafeteria of the Okhla Industrial Estate hub. The...
View ArticleHow Talent Marketing Startup Indi.com Leverages The Power Of Videos And...
Entertainment is a tough industry to break into. Filled with auditions, screen tests, near-misses and more, becoming the Next Big Star takes skill, talent, and perseverance. Increasingly, there is a...
View ArticleHow Billion Dollar Edtech Startup Udacity Is Equipping Indian Users With...
In 2012, Sebastain Thrun, one of the inventors of the self-driving car, decided to put up the AI course that he was teaching at Stanford university online, for free. That over 160,000 students applied...
View ArticleHow Home Interior Aggregator Startup CapriCoast Is Betting Big On...
Home is where you hang your hat or so goes the song. But walk into any modern home in a city – an apartment, duplex or row house – and the first thing to notice will be the interiors. Comfy couches, a...
View Article200 Properties, 40 Cities, 2 Years: Why Treebo Credits Its Success To ‘DNA Of...
“The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles”- Garth Stein It was August 2015 when OYO Rooms, the Gurugram-based budget hotel aggregator, raised a...
View ArticleHow A Bootstrapped Startup Aims To Take On Well Funded Peers: The Story Of...
It’s the most ubiquitous problem every smartphone owner with a prepaid number faces – how to recharge, what to recharge, and where to recharge. A plethora of tariff plans are available from the major...
View ArticleHow LBB Grew From 10K Users A Month To 100K Users A Day By Enticing Millennials
“I started working with the BBC when I was 21. This was back in 2011 when discovery and recommendation websites were still in their nascent stages in India,” begins Suchita Salwan, founder of local...
View ArticleHow Sagacito Utilises Predictive Analytics To Build Real Time Sales Guidance...
“Stop selling. Start helping.” – Zig Ziglar It seems this same thought crossed Arunabh Das Sharma’s mind in July 2016, when, after 25 years of a successful stint in companies like Coca-Cola India, ITC,...
View ArticleThis Indonesian Couple Overcame Personal Tragedy To Help New Parents Through...
A year ago, Indonesia-based Fanny Novia and Anthony Huang were like any other happy couple who were gearing up for the birth of their first child by stocking up on baby essentials, toys, and nursery...
View ArticleA Realist’s Outlook Of The Hardware Game: Courtesy Soaib Grewal, Venture...
With the advent and virality of 3D printing and IoT, healthcare being re-envisioned with product innovations, fashion getting a makeover with Snapchat’s Spectacles and drones being used to catch...
View ArticleHow This Academic Turned Entrepreneur’s Startup Is Leveraging AI To Automate...
One of the new Lord of the Geeks, Elon Musk believes that the world will one day be taken over by robots who will rebel against the humans and make them their slaves. A scenario that has already been...
View Article4 Reasons Why We Have Shutdown Personalised Recommendation Platform StrollUp
I once pitched my unique startup idea to an investor and he told me, “I see at least 10 startups with the same idea every month”. But still we don’t see anyone solve the nightlife or local outing...
View Article5 Hardware Startups That Are Changing The Healthtech Game In India
[Note: This article is part of The Junction Series. We will be covering the HealthTech sector in detail at The Junction 2017 in Jaipur. Learn more about The Junction here!] The Indian healthcare market...
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