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
ShoppingWish recently got funded via angel investors that include Silicon Valley based Sandeep Johri.
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) India in association with British Airways and YourStory.in is happy to announce winners of the “UKTI Calling India’s Most Innovative Companies To Work With The Best of UK” contest launched earlier this year to discover India’s most innovative companies who are looking to scale globally with UK as their growth partner.
Sometimes, good old experience is very understated. In this world of 18 years olds discovering supercapacitors that will recharge your batteries in 30 seconds, the world looks for these outliers to celebrate and cherish. Our own Techie Tuesdays has been guilty of it to an extent – with young college dropouts going on to prove [...] Read More
At YourStory jobs fair, the makers of Friday and Iris were the winners of our awesome startup workplaces contest. The announcement of the companies happened before the actual job fair itself and they carried a lot of the awesome quotient forward into the their countless interactions with the 5000 odd people who have come to [...] Read More
Well, you have your startup, you have your colleagues and then there’s the client.
