Maharashtra will create an ecosystem to encourage startups so that new ideas and innovations prosper in the country, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said today.
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With more than 2 lakh Charted Accountants, 30,000 Company Secretaries and Cost Accountants in India, the competition is only getting tougher by the day. Interacting with CA freshers, Sonia Singal, co-founder of www.cajobportal.com realised that just a fraction of them would ace the competitive exams and land a good job.
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The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) announces the fifth phase of NASSCOM 10,000 Startups ‘Konnect’ and will be impacting applications from technology startups across the country. This phase five is focussed on identifying, supporting, incubating, and accelerating innovative technology start-ups in India.
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In 2012, I was studying Mandarin in a part of Beijing known as a student’s hub – Haidian district is home to over 15 significant universities including Baidu headquarters. When you’re living in China, it’s hard to miss how the fashion sense of the locals grows on foreigners. The Chinese like to express their individually through their appearance. And what better reason to shop when the clothes are cheap and there is too much variety?
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RAW Pressery, India’s first and leading cold-pressed fresh juice company, recently received Series B funding worth $4.5 million from three equal partners – Sequoia, Saama Capital and DSG partners. This was a follow-up to the first round that invited $1.8 million from Sequoia in February 2015. The fresh capital will give an impetus to the company’s plans of introducing new flavours, increasing production capacity and initiating brand-building activities.
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We are in that time of the century where everything is just a click away, be it buying your grocery or buying your favourite dress or even doing bank transactions. Every business these days is ensuring their presence is felt in the online space. Online shopping in India is an emerging trend for marketers to promote their commodities in wide geographical area using internet. The online shopping trend is here to stay and it looks likely to grow more in the upcoming years.
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How did the entrepreneurial bug bite you? Well I am not an IITian or from any of premier business school. But I started my entrepreneurial journey way back in the year 2005 when the .in domains first came into existence buying many of the premium names. I completed my studies in 2009 and had my first company Hash Web Services Pvt Ltd setup in that year itself. We used to handle a lot Web development activities through our channels in US, Australia, UK and South Africa. I had my first stint at Online Grocery in year 2010 much before start-ups started to grow in India, when I launched Quality Bazaar, in Noida.
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Goa based startup, Roadhouse Hostels has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from Indian Angel Network, touted as Asia’s largest network of Angel Investors. Ambarish Raghuvanshi and Vikas Kuthiala have led this round of investment and will be joining the board of the company.
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Kraftly– a one of its kind, O2O mobile marketplace that targets micro and individual seller communities in India, has announced the appointment of its Chief Business Officer, Akshay Ghulati. Prior to this, he was the Head of Trade-In at Amazon, UK and previously worked in different roles in Amazon’s retail and marketplace businesses. Akshay also has prior experience with SMILE Group where he was overseeing various portfolio companies. Preceding to his shift to digital commerce, Akshay worked as a management consultant with The Parthenon Group and A.T. Kearney.
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Raghu and Sekhar used to go for walks over the weekend in KBR Park. Over the four hours they spent together every week they wanted to solve all sorts of problems in the unorganised hyper-local space. They looked at various categories including meat delivery, transactions of a household with milk vendors, dhobis etc. They in fact created prototype apps for all of these. While discussing these ideas with their friends, they received feedback that their ideas were not focused and that they were trying to do too many things.
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