Startup

In a major move, Govt. of India has decided to compel startups to declare how many jobs will they create, before taking benefits and subsidies under Start Up India program. Hence, benefits related with Startup India would be now…

Imagine a situation where you are a small business. You reach out to a mobile app service provider sharing how your business problem is about retention of customers and how you want an app to help you resolve it. Getting new customers…

Entrepreneurs can take solace from the resilience of a man who changed our lives, Thomas Edison, who saw more failures than success in his iconic journey of discovery. Here’s how he aptly summed up his struggle, “I have not failed. I…

Global restaurant search and discovery app, Zomato, has just announced that its online food ordering service has already clocked over 2 million orders in the month of March 2017. In comparison, Swiggy clocked around 1 million orders…

Buckminster Fuller, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Segal, B.V Doshi, Anupama Kundoo are not just successful thinkers and architects but are institutions by themselves. Architectural marvels developed by them are solutions to large and extremely…

Furniture and home appliances rental company RentoMojo has launched an exciting service for customers, called ‘Bikes on lease’. The company is cashing on the increased demand of two-wheelers in India because of traffic woes and easier…

Bengaluru, often hailed as the Silicon Valley of India, has emerged as startup capital of India as well, there is a bad news: techies working in Bengaluru are among the lowest paid, not only in India but in the entire world. These…

If someone was to ask me, as an entrepreneur, what I have built in these years, my answer would always be “I have built a team”. Very few people realise the true meaning and impact of this. But a transformational leader, of a start-up…

Zomato, a restaurant listing website and app, is profitable in the United Arab Emirates(UAE) and India. The company has now launched Zomato Gold, a membership program for a premium nightlife experience, in the cities of Dubai and Abu…

Just like a kaleidoscope, there exists several aspects, layers to entrepreneurship. Some are good, some are bad, and some are downright evil. One such extraordinary aspect was witnessed in the last 24 hours, when a co-founder of a…

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships - Michael Jordan In the movie ‘The Founder’, Ray Kroc (played by dashing Michael Keaton) teaches us one of the most crucial elements of success within any…

Zomato, India’s counterpart of Yelp, is changing the way people explore restaurants. It is also changing the way restaurants can market themselves and generate more revenue. First, it came out with Zomato Base, a cloud-based POS, and…

Stayzilla - The Godzilla of homestays born and made in India with over 55,000 homestays, hotels, guest houses, jungle lodges and boat houses under its armour across 900 cities and towns across India, has decided to shut down. This is…

The company that developed the cheapest car in India, Tata Nano, is venturing into new areas driven by future technology and innovation. Tata Motors today presented its new Passenger Vehicle strategy and introduced its new sub-brand –…

The biggest brands in the world are built upon a set of business ethics which have created an atmosphere of reliance and trust around their brands. In an already crowded market, where brands with similar offerings jostle for space and…

Nobody said running a startup was easy. A startup’s life is marked by the thrill of the heady highs and rough lows. Of late, the Indian startup industry hit a bottleneck, with funds drying up, as investors have become more cautious…

Entrepreneurship is a tough job; it’s going against the stream and doing what is perceived as impossible. Entrepreneurs are basically those human beings who refuse to accept the status quo, and embark on an impossible journey whose…

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning entry of Muslim refugees and US Green Card holders from 7 countries: Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya Somalia, and Yemen. This is being witnessed as an anti-immigration move…

None of the hotel-aggregators in India have been growing as fast as OYO Rooms, and the company has disrupted the space in a very short period of time. The company has launched OYO Bazar, modified check-in times in select hotels to 6AM…

We follow Startup funding deals quite closely and while 2016 did not pan out as good as 2015 in terms of number and amount of funding deals struck in India, there were quite a few companies that raised some eye-popping amount. Over 8…