[In continuation of our fortnightly theme on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’, here is presenting an interview with Eko founder, Abhishek Sinha.] Please tell us about Eko. Eko envisages a world where mobile phones will be the financial identity of the historically unbanked masses. The customer just walks to the neighbourhood grocer to deposit or withdraw cash, as…
Sequoia Capital Invests $8.2mn in JustDial
Sequoia Capital has invested $8.2mn (Rs. 40 crores) in Justdial, the local search engine firm. This is JustDial’s third round of funding – JustDial earlier raised funding from
News Roundup – iXiGO Claims 300 Crore Business for Airlines, MNP by December, Etislat-RCOM Tower Deal, ..and more
Etislat-RCOM Tower Deal Etislat (earlier acquired 45% stake in Swan Telecom for $900mn) has signed a 10 year old tower sharing deal with Reliance’s infrastructure arm, marking the deal size to Rs. 10,000 crores. Earlier, Telenor had signed a deal with Tata-Quippo for
Startup Opportunities – Founder, Software Developer, Ad Sales..and more
Calling corporate bozos, here are some opportunities to get out of boredom and do something challenging! Founder Looking for Part-time Software Developers/Programmers Senior Web Developers Web Developers Advertisement
Rakhi Sawant ka Swayamvar and Indian Startup Events – How similar are they!
[Ground reality portrayed by Vishal Gondal, founder of Indiagames. We resonate with this article and stand by each and every word of it!] As the dates for India’s top startup showcase event proto.in is nearing I can see a lot of buzz and activity around the event on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. Boot…
LightSpeed Ventures Invest in Essel Group’s Itz Cash Card
Lightspeed Ventures, along with Matrix Partners India and Intel Capital has announced an investment of Rs.500 million in Itz Cash Card Ltd, a multi- purpose pre-paid card company . Started in 2004, ItzCash raised $10mn from
Does your Brand have a Fragrance? Tips on How to create Brand Property
[Part of ‘Marketing Tips for Small Businesses’ series started by Mayank, head of marketing at Redbus.in. This article demystifies the concept of brand property and Mayank has shared interesting case studies in the article. Do share your opinion/comments.] Brand properties Creating a brand property that sticks is probably the greatest communication strategy. A brand property…
Understanding Social Entrepreneurship and Traits of a Social Entrepreneur
[[In continuation with our fortnightly theme on Social Entrepreneurship, here is presenting an article written by Hari Pudipeddi of Penseur.in] We use the term “Entrepreneur” for a person who has created something which has a value preposition to the stakeholders in big/small way. Now, I am not going deep into defining Human Entrepreneurship, however, will…
Digitization of Indian Cinema
Bollywood is back in multiplexes & so is the news about Indian Cinema Industry. While chatting with a friend on Friday who’s living in a small town up north, came to know that she is taking her kids to the first day first show of Harry Potter’s latest movie “Harry Potter And The Half Blood…
Zoho takes on Salesforce..Launches ‘Zwitch to Zoho’
Zoho –Salesforce story is pretty well known (SF wanted to acquire Zoho, but Zoho refused) and today, Zoho launched the ‘Zwitch to Zoho’ program to lure Salesforce customers by playing














