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Building a Startup Team is Equal to Reaching Nirvana!

posted 25 days ago

Building a Startup Team is equal to reaching Nirvana

Yes, I have built a team that I am very proud of, so I thought I could share my learnings with you fellow entrepreneurs on how to go about building it. Keep in mind that anyone who has a funda on building the right startup team and can give you the exact mantra is quite honestly… read more »

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Why I Am Betting on Product Tech Startups from India and Why TechSparks 2012 Makes Sense

posted 28 days ago

TechSparks 2012 Register Now

It was early 2010. There was a lot of buzz in the startup ecosystem about India’s inability to produce cutting-edge product tech ventures. I, for most part, was a silent spectator to these discussions. While I did agree that we were not at par with the innovations in the West, I did not, for a… read more »

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Entrepreneurs, You Don’t Have the Time to Get Hurt!

posted 33 days ago

Motion to the ocean

In the last 3.5 years during which I have been running YourStory, I have seen a metamorphosis in my personality and I thought it’s a good time to share some of the changes and learnings with all my fellow entrepreneurs and especially all those who plan to startup. Earlier when I started, I was sensitive to everyone and everything around me. The way people banged the… read more »

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Education Startup to watch out for, Edukart.com

posted 143 days ago

Ishan Gupta - Stanford Alumni, one of the first key hires of Facebook for exploring opportunities in India, held senior position at One97 and launched One97 Mobility Fund,  Author of the book – “Make the Move – Demystifying Entrepreneurship”, life is good, but then there is a burning desire – to do something different, meaningful and yes take the… read more »

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Startup which is steadily building one stop solution for all kinds of Events Tickets, MeraEvents.com

posted 144 days ago

mera_event Founder

Personal Pain leads to starting up of MeraEvents.com! After running a B2B business in US for more then 9 years, Naidu Darapaneni wanted to start another B2C business inIndia. Naturally to get a feel of the market and see what are the Indian consumers looking at, he started attending startup and trade events. To his… read more »

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YourStory.in thanks Everyone for making E-Sparks sparkling!

posted 155 days ago

E-Sparks Thank you

I believe that the heart of any startup event lies in the enthusiasm and energy of the startups. And, if one has to go by the sheer energy, then E-Sparks truly sparkled! On the last count we had 500 smart, young and ambitious people from all over India who attended E-Sparks, India’s first e-commerce startup… read more »

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Planning Mobile presence for your Startup? Lessons from redBus

posted 166 days ago

redBus mobile presence mobility team

We keep hearing about how mobile commerce is an indispensable part of marketing & sales strategy of any startup today. While much of it is true in a country like ours where mobile penetration is far superior to the internet growth, we bring to you the redBus case study which shows some clear indicators of… read more »

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Hack it like Flipkart Engineers!

posted 171 days ago

Flipkart Hack Day hackathon

Flipkart Hack Day v2.0 While most of us keep talking /debating about Bangalore’s capability to be the next Silicon Valley, there are some startups who are head on taking Bangalore to the global centre-stage. Case in point: Flipkart.com. We at Yourstory.in, were lucky to be privy to the Hackathon which Flipkart held for its employees… read more »

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Subrata Mitra, Accel Partners on Investments

posted 172 days ago

Subrata Mitra - Accel Partners

While the news of Accel Partners raising new round of funds is all over the media, we wanted to know what will this development mean for entrepreneurs … so here is an excerpt from our conversation Subrata Mitra, a partner with Accel Partners, India. He talks about the philosophy of his partnership: Subrata, please tell us what are the focus areas/sectors… read more »

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Mekin Maheshwari, Flipkart, On How To Give Wings To Your Startup Dreams

posted 182 days ago

Flipkart

Life has been the best guru for Mekin Maheshwari, teaching him to constantly face change and master uncertainties from a very early age. “My father had a transferable job and so we shifted cities every three years. I was admitted into a new school every time, and I had to constantly adapt to new environments,”… read more »

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