Building the missing link among current crop of social media platforms: Scrollback

Facebook allows you to connect with friends. Twitter enables conversations with strangers. In this age of social media overdose, is there room for another community platform? Two IIT Kharagpur graduates, Gaurav Srivastava and Aravind Ravi Sulekha seem to have found a missing link in both these popular social media network sites and thus started, Scrollback, to [...] Read More

Announcements TechSparks

How to get well connected to your target market? Gautam Mago of Sequoia Capital can answer it well

Team YS | 6 hours ago

More often than not, most startups are looking to raise funds. Venture Capitalists are looking for startups to invest in as well. It is their job, after all. In the words of Gautam Mago, Principal, Sequoia Capital - ”We as investors are in business as well, the business of investing money and at right places”. When [...] Read More

Entrepreneur Stories

How an Indian, a Singaporean, a Canadian and a French started Flocations in just 54 Hours!

Archana Sudhendranath | 8 hours ago

Everyday we tell you startup stories – to inspire and encourage you. We talk about entrepreneurs’ journey, often from the corporate to the startup world. Yesterday we happened to meet a startup whose story stood out among all others. Flocations, a Singaporean startup which aggregates travel packages offered by offline tour operators, has a team from different parts of the world, who met and started their venture in 54 hours!

Startup Stories

How has Shopnineteen bypassed the e-commerce bloodbath?

Raghu Mohan | 8 hours ago

I was just talking to an investor the other day and when asked about the current state of e-commerce in India, he said, “it’s a blood bath.” While these are words of someone who’s burnt their fingers having invested in Indian e-commerce companies, I think a lot of startups in India have to come to [...] Read More

Announcements Events

YourStory fireside chat session – Shradha Sharma in conversation with Suvir Sujan and Kunal Bahl

Team YS | 10 hours ago

The e-commerce space is a dangerous combination of lucrative and risky. The opportunities in this ever growing, ever emerging space are infinite. Yet if you consider the number of entrants in the space, very few people have been able to succeed and make it really big. When you have the right idea and the right [...] Read More

In Depth Research

Problems facing the Indian artifacts sector

Preethi Chamikutty | 11 hours ago

The handicraft and handloom sectors are an Rs 24,300 crore (USD 4.48 bn) industry contributing Rs 10,000 crore(USD 1.85 bn) to India’s export earnings of Rs 1.62 lakh crore (USD 300 bn), as per the 12th five-year plan working document. The global market for handicrafts is USD 400 billion, of which India’s share is below 2%, [...] Read More

Entrepreneur Startup

[Sound Pitch] Advaiya, a professional service consultancy that works on complimenting your business

Team YS | 11 hours ago

Advaiya is a team of professional services consultants.From a humble inception in 2005, they have come a long way, now serving companies like Microsoft, Google and VMware. Their interdisciplinary team provides an array of services like strategic consulting, technical and marketing content, training and evangelism, software development and staffing solutions. Here, Advaiya provides a SoundPitch [...] Read More

Blogs Startup Advice

Physics of Dealing with Multi-Dimensional Stresses of Entrepreneurship

Guest Author | 13 hours ago

Stress Analysis was one of the most boring classes at IIT Bombay and I wished I never have to delve into it again. I was forced to study it once again not to design any efficient structure or material but to deal efficiently with powerful multi-dimensional stresses of entrepreneurship journey. As entrepreneurs, we are hammered, [...] Read More

In Depth Operations Startup Advice

Inside the warehouse of an eCommerce store: See how it works for DogSpot

Jubin Mehta | 14 hours ago

I was commuting via the Delhi metro when I overheard an interesting conversation between two men in their 40’s. The gist of the conversation was that one of the men wanted to startup an online store as he was getting bored at his job. All he needed was someone who’d make him the site and [...] Read More

Funding News

Online parenting and baby book portal Little1 raises second seed round from Delhi based Radix Group

Raghu Mohan | 15 hours ago

Little1, an online portal for parents to save and share precious moments of their children, today announced that they have secured an undisclosed second seed round today from the Radix group. Sabarish Nair, the founder of the company has shared that the fund raise was done as a part of getting a family of doctors on [...] Read More