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Regina Mihindukulasuriya

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Regina is a reporter for BW Businessworld. In her previous assignments, she has worked with Independent television Network as a news anchor and reporter in Sri Lanka

Latest Articles By Regina Mihindukulasuriya

Paytm-Acquired Shifu Founder’s New Venture

Appstitude is a startup accelerator with a collection of startups across the globe. The entire portfolio has a footprint of 40 million users. Appstitude also provides development, marketing, and branding support to startups. In a nutshell, it’s an accelerator that will guide budding startups from building a prototype up to its beta release.

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Record Making “Seed Funding” For Saudi Ecomm Startup

Noon.com is a one billion dollar project and will be launching next year, first in the Middle East then across the world.

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A Rare Startup Focusing On Yoga And Past Life Regression

Healclinic offers ayurveda, homeopathy, yoga, hypnotherapy, reiki, pranic healing, theta healing, tarot reading, nutrition, past life regression, vaastu and counting. They are aiming to become cash positive in about 6 to-9 months.

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Helpmebuild Will Help You Build Yours

“Currently, no online social ecosystem exists within the interior and architecture space, which provides solution ranging from ideas to products to full stack design build services.” And that’s where Helpmebuild aims to fill a gap need in the market.

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India’s Digital Comm Players Need Better Growth Model

None of the digital commerce companies in India are profitable. They typically earn between 5-15 percent commissions but massive discounts on top of the investment needed to expand to more geographies saw those companies losing money. This can be a serious problem when the capital market tightens up.

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Certification In Cyber Security Rise In Market Value; Job Pay

Being a certified professional with the ability deal in cyber security is becoming more valuable with increased online security breaches and the higher pay such jobs command. “…a median pay premium equivalent to 13 percent of base salary” to be exact.

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Certification In Cyber Security Rise In Market Value; Job Pay

Being a certified professional with the ability deal in cyber security is becoming more valuable with increased online security breaches and the higher pay such jobs command. “…a median pay premium equivalent to 13 percent of base salary” to be exact.

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SC Decision To Uphold State Powers May Increase Dispute With Ecomms

“The judgment of the honorable Supreme Court (SC) would have far reaching effects, as it endorses states’ right to levy entry tax on goods from other states. It will have a significant impact on the ongoing dispute(s) between the ecommerce industry and the states…”

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How Do Investors Feel About Demonetisation? Snapdeal And More Respond

From founders to COOs and VPs of Flipkart, Snapdeal, OYO Rooms to Olacabs, the overall view was resounding positivity for demonetisation as it has jump started the cashless, digital economy. A high incidence of meetings with investors following the demonetisation announcement was observed. The ShopClues cofounder believes the negative effects of demonetisation will lessen in about sixty days. Read on for more.

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Startup Leaders On India Going Cashless

“The RBI is like God. They will tell you what to do but won’t tell you how to do it. Banks are like the mere mortals who will interpret the commands as they see and will sometimes make mistakes in carrying out the orders.”

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