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These two guys built a startup, sold it to study & work, and founded MyGubbi
Every year more than 40,000 to 100,000 apartments are readied for delivery in each of the country’s five major cities. But while real estate may be slowing down as an industry, home ownership is only...
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Scratching an itch: Governments want them young, not soldiers, but...
Over the last 12 months, we have seen state governments take entrepreneurship very seriously. Blame Narendra Modi for unleashing the notion of entrepreneurship, not just as a fashionable idea, but as...
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Doc N Me: Carrying mothers are never far from their gynaecologist with this app
There comes a time when, after working in corporate for 15 years, the mind wants to take a break. Husband-wife duo Bhupendra Chopra and Samidha Garud had to find a way to give back to society to make...
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Unsustainable losses will morph wallets into merchant aggregators. What does...
The announcement of launch of Unified Payment Interface (UPI), built by National Payment Corporations of India (NPCI), sounded a death knell to mobile wallets, as the new payment system will allow...
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The Future is here at Lowe’s: The global retailer could take Indian startups...
How does one make a statement in the world of innovation? Too many announcements about innovation have been made without a road map to the future. But every now and then, someone makes a statement...
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From almost selling chappatis online to setting up a successful cloud tech...
What does one do after a decade of being married, tending to kids and working in a corporate? Some find god, while a few have a little spark left in them to go and dream a little dream that defines...
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A husband-wife duo is building a platform that can handle textbook...
Do you remember those college days when you had to buy those expensive academic books? The books were hardly used only for two months before the exams, or when panic was struck, in our minds, by firm...
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SAP wants ideas to drive business, be it from its employees or from startups...
It is odd, in many ways, to know that our memories are very short, in the present, because one only knows of startups, in payments and in food delivery, that are trying to acquire offline merchants as...
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Infibeam: Rock-a-bye baby the e-commerce cradle rocks, but the bough breaks,...
The first ever move from an Indian e-commerce company to list on the stock exchange is in a “grave” position. Literally! High expectations are the mother of all disasters, which was why the...
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India’s 21st century women fight off prejudice and emerge successful...
Good portents have landed in India, because women entrepreneurs have ushered this nation in its great march into the 21st century. The last two years have seen at least 172 women running or...
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Two cyber warriors take on the black-hats targetting our startup-nation
Enterprises are waking up to the security risks involved in connecting their IT-systems to the consumer world. They have reason to fear the new-age hacker because cyber-attacks are becoming more...
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Infibeam IPO subscribed 1.1 times: What next for the e-commerce company?
While the details of the valuation of Infibeam are yet to be revealed, the company made it through its public offering. While the start was rocky, by close of the IPO subscription window the stock...
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Trak N Tell: This startup could save your life in a car accident
In 1995, when General Motors launched OnStar – a 360º car communications service – in the US, it revolutionised the car as a device. The entire telematics unit, a communications device in the car,...
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100% FDI in online marketplaces: a masterstroke or a new legal quagmire?
The DIPP has finally defined the nature of e-commerce businesses, in India, and the government body has allowed 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in marketplaces which do not carry...
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Can we stop being English – what are we really when we do business as Indians?
The Make-in-India campaign, which is nothing but “providing jobs for Indians”, will not gather steam if local languages are not used in manufacturing, commerce, and banking to empower young Indians to...
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Aditya Birla’s TrendIn wants to work with startups. Here’s why
Three years ago, Aditya Birla Group, the $41-billion Indian conglomerate, realised the potential of its own e-commerce business for its seven apparel retail brands, and launched the portal and app...
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Here is what startups can learn from the ‘champions’ – West Indies cricket team
Entrepreneurs can learn a great deal from the history of the West Indian Cricket team. There is no other team that faced off with such terrible omens and odds. Their journey can be captured in four...
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Before Elon Musk there was Chetan Maini, why we have to salute this man who...
In 1998, when Chetan Maini launched the Reva Electric Vehicle Company, the electric car and technology platform that was named after his mother, he was seven years ahead of Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors....
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Will the PhonePe acquisition turn out to be Flipkart’s master stroke?
A couple of weeks ago,payments startup PhonePe, founded by ex-Flipkart executives Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari, was acquired by their former employer in under six months of the duo leaving the...
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Nandan Nilekani has a BILLION likes in India, what’s next for him?
There are icons in India who have touched the lives of people with their industrious nature. One of them was the legendary engineer Sir M Visvesvaraya who built irrigation canals and dams, across the...
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