Last Mile Delivery Startups Poised To Drive Global Ecommerce Sales To $2.48...
A report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2015 stated that the ecommerce market in India will be worth $220 billion by 2025. This growth is said to be driven by factors such as young demographic...
View ArticleThe Vault’s Big Players Are Here: Veteran Entrepreneurs Come Together As...
Vivek Bhargava, Anupam Mittal, Kunal Shah, Ameera Shah, Sudip Bandopadhyay, Mohit Goel and Rahul Singh have announced to come together as investors at The Vault, an Indian reality TV series. They will...
View ArticleThe 500 Indian Startup Shutdowns Of The Past 20 Months [Part 1]
Y Combinator’s Paul Graham famously said that nine out of ten startups fail. Even the startups which make it big initially, lose momentum going forward and fall short! According to a report by Nasscom...
View ArticleAn Exhaustive List Of India’s 200+ Startup Incubators
With India being in the top five startup nations in the world and the Government pushing all the right buttons towards fostering an ecosystem that boosts entrepreneurial growth, the organisations meant...
View ArticleWorld Startup Expo Calls For Nominations In Individual Awards Category
Asia’s largest startup congregation, World Startup Expo 2016 (WSE) has invited applications from individual entrepreneurs to nominate themselves for the WSE awards. The initiative aims to celebrate the...
View ArticleThe Top 60 Startup Coworking Spaces In India
Coworking spaces – a more evolved concept in the west, are now a popular trend in the Indian startup community. The idea of an open, communicative, barrier-less office culture is finally catching up on...
View ArticleIf You Are Working In Hardware Innovation – Be A Part Of Change: Presenting...
Innofest (an iSPIRT initiative) will be organising its Knowledge Series in Bengaluru on October 22, 2016. The series will be divided into two parts. First is a First is a bootcamp iKen, which is...
View ArticleMakeMyTrip Buys ibibo Group To Capture Larger Pie Of India’s Travel Space
Big news coming out of the traveltech space here in India. A consolidation of gargantuan proportions sees MakeMyTrip acquiring Ibibo Group. Ibibo as an umbrella company comprises bus aggregator –...
View ArticleHow MakeMyTrip And Ibibo Group Plan To Become Changemakers In Online Travel...
January 2016. China’s Ctrip.com International Ltd., a leading travel service provider, pours in about $180 Mn in MakeMyTrip (MMYT) through convertible bonds. The idea was clear – MMYT wanted to focus...
View ArticleStartup Advice Whipped From Baking Lessons!
After 25 terrible cake disasters and few good ones, while I was baking my last cake, I realised that there is a striking analogy between cakes and startups.Without much ado, here it goes! Without much...
View ArticleOne Search To Find Them All – The Junction’s 42Fellowship Seeks India’s 42...
“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Last month, we flagged off The Junction 2017, Inc42’s first flagship conference to be held on January 12, 2017-January 14,...
View ArticleWhich Benefits Are Offered By The World’s Top Employers
Flexible working hours, retirement plans, and life insurance policies. These are some of the employee benefits that most organisations offer. But there are some like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and...
View Article15 Of The Most Unusual Office Gimmicks
Time was, you had to walk into a bank to find bank vaults to deposit your valuables and keep them safe. But online lending platform Quicker Loans took the quickest way to solving this pain point and...
View ArticleBusiness Etiquette From Around The World
Did you know that it is considered rude in China to present a business card with just one hand? Or that monsieur and madame are not just French endearments to be used in social conversation – they...
View ArticleLean Startup Parody Video –“You still need to iterate!”
Startups have brought with them a world of jargon, a whole new way of doing business. But the very essence of being a startup is to not be a big, bloated corporate entity. You have to be lean. This...
View ArticleAmazon Unveils Snowmobile – A 45 Foot 18 Wheeler To Move Exabytes Of Data To...
At the 2016 Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, besides unveiling new updates to the cloud provider’s portfolio of services, CEO Andy Jassy also announced the first three...
View ArticleThe Growth of AI In Ecommerce
[Note: This article is part of The Junction Series. We will be covering the DeepTech and RetailTech sector in detail at The Junction 2017 in Jaipur. Learn more about The Junction here!] AI is the next...
View Article33 Easy Ways To Motivate Your Creative Employees
Passion. Motivation. Interest. Creative employees thrive on these qualities and bring an extra something to their work if they are given the right kind of incentives. Managers who employ a...
View ArticleStartups And Stories: 7 Entrepreneurship Lessons To Be Learnt From Old Fables
[Note: This article is part of The Junction Series. Sanjay Mehta will be speaking at “The Junction” in Jaipur in January 2017. Get a deep dive into angel investing, entrepreneurship and more with him....
View Article9 Effective Ideas To Up Your Employee Engagement Game
Employee satisfaction. It’s a term used to describe the effectiveness and productivity quotient of an employee in relation to the way workplace culture, team, and processes of an organisation affect...
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