Author Archives: Team YS

[Jobs Roundup] LavaLabs, Code Fire Technologies, Touchpoint Datasciences and many more looking to hire you!

| 5 days ago

This week’s jobs board is a good blend of business and technology openings across the country’s startup ecosystem. The roles are as usual across varying seniority; from interns, to co-founders. The jobs on offer are very interesting. Have a look – Web 2.0 Admin / System Deployment Specialist  at Atlogys Technical Consulting   Business Development Executive at CodeFire Technologies [...] Read More

TechSparks 2013 Twitter Chat Today at 4PM – Enabling Startups Connect To Your Market

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| 7 days ago

This year’s TechSparks theme is “Connecting To Your Markets”. It is aimed at enabling startups and entrepreneurs to identify, access and scale your potential markets. As entrepreneurs, what are your primary pain points in connecting to your markets? What can be done to overcome it? For all this and more, join us today for a twitter chat between 4-5pm. Let’s discuss and share our collective insights, experience and perspective on how we can solve this pressing need faced by most startups and entrepreneurs.

[Jobs Roundup] Zaakpay, Signeasy, Zepo and many more are looking to hire you!

| 19 days ago

Post the Startup Jobs Fair, the job requirements posted in the YourStory Jobs board have seen a slight increase. Furthermore, more interesting job profiles such as Animators and mobile developers. Apart from this, the regular requirements for technologists and marketers prevails. Here is the startup jobs roundup for the past week – iOS Developer and Android Developer at Infoarmy [...] Read More

Weekend Warriors launches “Collabooks”

| 31 days ago

Weekend Warriors, a gang of youngsters, who organize innovative ventures every weekend and utilize the funds generated to empower micro-entrepreneurs, is pleased to announce its next weekend venture “Collabooks”. The model of The Weekend Warriors leads to realization and unleashing of the human-potential to the fullest, both for the volunteers/warriors and for the micro-entrepreneurs we partner with. Their next [...] Read More

IDG Ventures Tech Meet-up – Spotlight on Enterprise, Register Now!

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| 32 days ago

IDG Ventures India Advisors is organizing a Tech Meet-up in partnership with YourStory.in. The first Meet-up is focused on enterprise software entrepreneurs, with the discussion topic being enterprise selling and top priorities of a CIO in today’s rapidly evolving software landscape. IDG Media has researched with over 300 top CIOs to understand their key priorities, [...] Read More

LinkedIn Acquires Pulse in an attempt to become a “definitive professional publishing platform”

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| 42 days ago

After months of rumors flying around, LinkedIn has announced its acquisition of Pulse, the popular mobile news reader app for smartphones. TechCrunch reports that the app has been acquired for $90 Million in stock and cash. The acquisition is set to close in the second quarter of 2013.
Deep Nishar, Senior Vice President, Products & User Experience at LinkedIn, posted in the LinkedIn blog, where he shares, among other things, the intention of this acquisition. Here are some excerpts from the blog post -

The Billion Dollar Mu Sigma Story – with Founder Dhiraj C. Rajaram

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| 44 days ago

The accolades that Mu Sigma has accumulated over the years is a rapidly rising toll. But, like all great companies, the core of the company is built around the beliefs and ideas of an intrinsically curious person. Founder, Dhiraj C Rajaram, had a novel idea which bore no intentions towards entrepreneurship.

But as fate would have it, Dhiraj’s novel idea manifested itself in a hugely successful entrepreneurial venture and the rest, as they say, is history. Read on to know inside stories of one of India’s biggest entrepreneurial success story: