Startup

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…

The biggest thing to unlearn from the movie Dangal is that, failure is inevitable. And the biggest thing to learn is that, despite failures, the true champion will always get up, and get going. For an entrepreneur, the default state…

Why is it that we don’t see too many businesses talk of or focus on succession planning in spite of the fact that finding the right successor can be an arduous and time consuming process and has a direct impact on the longevity of the…

Being an entrepreneur can be a tough job. Simply having the right skills and expertise may not be enough in today’s faced paced times. You need to constantly keep yourself abreast with what is happening in the industry, both within the…

The world’s largest online marketplace, Amazon, has decided to extend its program, Amazon Launchpad, to India, in the wake of exciting new startups everyday. As the name suggests, this initiative helps propel startups to another level…

The ongoing currency ban in India has thrown several interesting questions, which would be recalled by economists time and again. Case studies would be created out of this historical decision to ban 86% of currency in a single go.…

Entrepreneurs are very passionate about their startups and often live and breathe them every moment by micromanaging everything. While that is a key ingredient to drive success, it can also prove to be a deterrent, if the founder begins…

Finally the irrationality that had been driving the startup funding trends last year is showing some signs of sensibility now. VC’s have observed by now the negative implications of startups literally throwing money to gain market…

Playing the safe card is what our parents teach us from the very beginning. In a society, that is quite orderly and systematic; it is general for one to get their degree in a course and start working with a well-established company. No…