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Why startups struggle with kiranas and how Indian retail could be set for a...
There are 10 million kirana stores, or mom and pop retailers, in India. Each of them serves a catchment that can go from just 500 to over 10,000 families. Some of them are so popular that you could...
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[Startup of the day] Anup failed twice, but he is still in the race to...
If one happens to enter a popular restaurant in the upmarket locale of Indiranagar, you would find that there are no waiters to take your order. The customer has to connect to the WiFi and the menu...
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[Bootstrapped Heroes] How this 29-year-old built a Rs 180-cr solar business...
India’s middle class is estimated to be 300 million in size. A majority of this middle class will be in top 55 cities over the next 15 years and these people will require electricity. The total power...
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[Startup of the day] Truple — a startup by IIT-IIM alumni that promotes...
Magic happens when young graduates get together. Former IIT-IIM graduates Chetan Patil, C V Karthik, Rohit Harlalka, Sriram Sekhar, Madhvendra Kumar and Jeet Kumar where staying at the same society in...
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[The Big Interview] Want to drive James Bond’s car? Then look beyond the...
Aston Martin embodies a personality. The company has been hand-crafting cars for connoisseurs for over a century. In films, the car has been immortalised as the automobile of choice for the fictional...
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Reliance Jio: The race to claim Rs 20,000 cr from the Indian consumer annually
Indian consumers are inspired by icons, billion-dollar investments, price wars and discounts. They are in awe of the superlative ways in which businessmen are able to offer freebies to capture market...
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Why Amit Phadnis manages $11B for Cisco and is perhaps the most important...
Cisco Systems, the $49.24-billion networking equipment giant, is omnipresent across global markets. But within that system is a maverick who runs almost 25 percent of its business. Amit Phadnis is the...
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How Cult is targeting the $1 billion fitness market without machines and...
We have all been there! Gyms that promise you great bodies after you pay them in advance. The gym chain hopes that you may lose interest and not come back. This model has made more people unfit and...
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How Happy Cook is getting busy youth into the kitchen
There are over 30 million graduates who have passed out over the last six years, of which 60 percent leave their hometowns to work in urban centres. While most of these kids eat outside, there are...
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[Startup of the day] Two geeky engineers from the USA make money by helping...
In May 2014 Manish Mittal was in India on holiday, and had booked a cab to ferry his family across Rajasthan. But the holiday turned out to be like one of those Hollywood movies that portray an India...
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Anjana Reddy goes all WROGN with Virat Kohli to pocket Rs 100 crore
They say that breaking away from legacy is the hardest thing to do for the fourth generation individual in a business family. These individuals cannot survive in an environment governed by age-old...
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[Startup of the day] IIT-IIM and XLRI alumni build Darwinbox for the...
About 18 months ago, two IIT-IIM alumni and an XLRI alumnus got together after a four-year stint in the corporate world to make a dent in the human resource software product universe. While Jayant...
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Tinto-Rang: The Azooka bazooka for cancer free research discovered by IISc...
It is not often that you have two friends, who have lost touch with each other for twenty years, creating something that is unique to the world of bio-technology. These two 38-year-old individuals, Dr...
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Dell’s lights on business takes a fresh turn with its CIO for the APJ region...
Startups are the flavour of the month, and so is innovation within a company. If you walk into Dell’s corporate office in Bengaluru, you witness how the future has already been set in motion. The...
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How this real-estate startup thrived within HDFC for 6 yrs to make home...
A year ago when you saw startups like Housing, Quikr or Commonfloor struggle to capture the consumers’ attention, a little known startup was slowly signing up all the builders to showcase their...
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‘Google, Facebook are walled gardens for advertisers’
The world of advertising from the digital perspective is becoming a trading platform. Data is the gold mine and advertisers want tech to help them understand publishers that give their brands...
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Founded within Bosch, how this startup combines the power of machine learning...
There is a lot of innovation taking root in Indian R&D Centres. For the last six years, Robert Bosch Engineering India Limited (RBEI) has seen its engineers file at least 50 patents per year. They...
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[The Big Interview] Website builder Weebly has 1.5mn businesses in India,...
You need dreamers to make a company go through four rounds of funding and yet maintain the same energy of a startup. David Rusenko, founder and CEO of Weebly, is planning to make Weebly4 (W4), a...
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This doctor dumped US job to build integrated medicine platform Syncremedies
The startup melds practices from various disciplines to provide holistic medical intervention to patients. Arjun Rao graduated from Kuvempu Vishwavidyanilaya in 1998 as a young doctor. However, he...
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Connect to Levo at airports and network for business deals in a lounge
This pair of 27-year-olds plans to make that mundane wait at the airport before flights a whole lot more interesting for business people through networking. This summer, networking with professionals...
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