Geetha Narayanan started her career as a school teacher in 1971 and formed Ujwal Trust with 5 other women and INR 1000 in 1982, with which she a started the Mallya Aditi International School and later on in 1996 founded Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. She dons the hat of the founder and director of [...] Read More
After raising two quick rounds of funding, one lead by ex Futurebazaar VP, Zeeshan Hayath and the other lead by ex Network 18 CEO, Haresh Chawla, Mumbai based property listing site, Housing.co.in has expanded its operation to three other cities – Gurgaon, Hyderabad and Pune. At the time of raising their second round, Advitiya Sharma, [...] Read More
Singapore’s second ‘walkabout’ happened on May 17, 2013, where over 100 startups opened their doors to welcome strangers for a beer, a chat, and peek into their charming shophouse offices. No emails, no ‘fixing up a meeting’, just walk about and walk into offices. And taking into consideration the fact that I am still trying to find my feet with the startup ‘scene’ in Singapore, this turned out to be the perfect day!
In the era of facebook and twitter, people often crib about real interactions waning down. LetsDine is a new startup in the ‘social networking’ space, that tries to address this issue and arranges themed dining events for different groups of bloggers, poets, foodies, entrepreneurs and random socials where absolute strangers come and meet, interact and [...] Read More
Vellore Institute of Technology’s Business Incubator (VITTBI) is bringing the entrepreneurial buzz to places outside mainstream startup ecosystems in India. It identifies growing opportunities in India’s economic boom, plugs entrepreneur gaps in building startups, and connects them to the broader investor community, as explained by A. Balachandran, General Manager, VIT-Technology Business Incubator (www.vittbi.com).
Last week, I had written an opinion piece on why carpooling will fail in India. I received many interesting reader viewpoints. Here’s a compilation of why readers think about carpooling in India.
There is something about entrepreneurs who foresee opportunities. Since 2005, Apalya Technologies have been in the business of providing live television to its users over the air on a wide assortment of devices. Now what makes such a business really interesting is that they launched its offering in India. India already has more internet users [...] Read More
At the VMworld event in February, VMware’s CEO, Pat Gelsinger went on record saying “We all lose if [enterprise customers] end up in these commodity public clouds. We want to extend our franchise from the private cloud into the public cloud … Own the corporate workload now and forever.”
Jobs are a problem across the globe and this knowledge is commonplace. With the number of new job portals coming up, you wouldn’t really sit up expecting to hear something radically different. But when I met Anilesh Seth at his residence in HRBR layout, Bangalore, a bit of rethinking was necessitated. The Journey Anilesh Seth [...] Read More
Yes, Sri Lanka also has startups, and plenty of them! One of India’s most prolific investors Rajan Anandan hails from Sri Lanka and he is actively involved in the local Sri Lankan startup arena as well. Rajan co-founded Blue Ocean Ventures along with Prajeeth Balasubramaniam to invest in promising Sri Lankan startups and they also [...] Read More
