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How E-bee is providing tailor-made omni-channel technology solutions to...
The world of retailing is changing fast with shopping moving to multiple point-of-sales; and the smartphone is central to this change. The consumer today is always connected to the physical store and...
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Of funding, acquisitions and growth – how 16-year-old Fractal Analytics...
In 2000, when websites were growing rapidly, a set of entrepreneurs realised that they could build algorithms that could track sentimental analysis and then build analytics as a service business on...
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It is all about customer service – the rise of CRM and the fall of ERP
About a decade ago, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software was the gold standard in managing processes for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). If these SMBs implemented an ERP it meant that...
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What corporates can learn about social media from Indian startups
There is a growing need to stay relevant in business, and social media has gone a long way in helping companies reach out to a younger audience. But mindless spending on Google and Facebook has led...
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Understanding the kirana and its consumer is a struggle – here are the trials...
The organised wholesale business is trying to reinvent itself in India. Although its target includes 12 million small businesses, and over 200,000 restaurants and hotels, there is an intrinsic problem...
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Story of Chimera Labs, world’s first ad network of brands creating content...
When children grow up dabbling with computers, playing war games and coding for fun they end up understanding a fantasy world. But as they grow up it gives them the ability to see the real world and...
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This Mumbai-based startup is ensuring quick payment settlements and...
If individuals spend a very long time in a particular industry, then they either get bored or begin to see strands of opportunities that they can convert to business. Liji Nowal, Vinit Shetty, Anand...
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Startups up their game in on-boarding customers before implementing CRM
Over the last six months, startups are piloting several ways to on-board the customer without any additional steps. Several apps like EasyChair, DigiLocker and Clever already allow quick checkouts...
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Data sciences can save India and here is why
India produces data of more than 1 billion people. But all this data is used for the benefit of an organisation or an institution. Sometimes, this data is not even the real reference point for...
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Why current mobile networks do not benefit startups and consumers
There are several Over-The-Top (OTT) companies emerging in India; the strange thing is they are building their apps to support 2G speeds for video downloads. Data provided by IAMAI suggests that 70...
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LinkedIn sharpens mobile and content strategy for its second largest market –...
“India is our second largest market after the US,” said Allen Blue, Co-founder LinkedIn, at the opening of their new developmental centre at Marathahalli, Bengaluru, in a fireside chat with Akshay...
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LinkedIn Co-founder Allen Blue on failed startups, building relationships,...
“It is a very different world today. Internet is making people powerful. When we built LinkedIn it cost us more and took us more time. Today, the cost of starting up has drastically reduced, along...
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Indiamart is aiming for Rs 2,000 cr revenue by 2020. Here is how it wants to...
There is a lot of respect when one aces an old business. Trading in commodities teaches one to be on the numbers all the time and success depends on having information about the market ahead of the...
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Why a data-centric system will make healthcare affordable to all, not just...
In a country where there are 900 million people and 300 million children below the age of five, there is a reason to take a re-look at the entire healthcare ecosystem in the country. Where there is...
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GST has little to do with logistics and more with striking a compromise...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST), if implemented, will have to cut through a lot of complexity in a federal political structure like India. At the onset, the GST is supposed to include indirect taxes...
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Building an electric vehicle ecosystem in India: The challenges of 100 pc...
Building an electric vehicle for India is no longer about creating ugly looking battery operated vehicles. Startups like Ather Energy and Tork Motorcycles are not traders or dealers or manufacturers....
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How to get an Ivy League education from India
There are over 30 million students in higher education – in India – and over 16 percent of them take distance education courses. Most of these students do not get any access to training or teachers...
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Are we caught with our pants down as valuations drop, so here is why they...
Last year, industry stalwarts like Mohandas Pai, Nandan Nilekani, Mahesh Murthy, and several other entrepreneurs expressed concerns over the high valuations that were offered to startups with nothing...
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Four data and technology scientists mine for gold after four years of hard...
Krishna Kumar, Ashok Reddy, and Rohan Rodrigues were colleagues at a global IT services firm when they began talking about starting a company. They were looking at various software services ideas, in...
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Armed with technology, ExoCan wages an affordable war against ‘the emperor of...
A recent paper on cancer mortality in India showed that every year India lost about four lakh individuals to cancer, ‘the emperor of all maladies’. In ten years’ time, it is believed that...
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