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Yes, Byju's messed up, but here's how it can still bounce back Investor and entrepreneur Mahesh Murthy explains how India's most valuable ed-tech firm can emerge out of the current crisis by focusing on the bottomline, and making some hard choices

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Starting a Venture Fund in an Emerging Economy(India) w/ Paula Mariwala of Seedfund & Stanford In this episode of Venture Vignettes, Riana Shah sits down with Paula Mariwala, Founder & Executive director of one of India’s first Venture Capital Funds. Paula walks us through her experiences at Se

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Closing the gender gap in fundraising for startups - The Economic Times Today, ahead of International Women's Day, female startup founders of companies like LimeRoad, Kaaryah, ShopClues, Chumbak, YourDost and V Resorts talk about the challenges they faced when they went looking for funds.

In the age of clicks, Chumbak leads with footfalls - The Economic Times While various studies predict an exponential growth in online shoppers, Chumbak is defying the trend and attracting more consumers to its brick and mortar stores.

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Voonik confident on reaching $250-million sales mark soon - The Economic Times The company is currently on a $100-million GMV run rate and has recently expanded into two additional product categories on its platform, which includes premium products category Vilara, mens-wear offering Mr Voonik, besides its core women focused vertical.

This isn’t China: The “Amazon of India” will be Amazon and “Uber of India” will be Uber Unlike China's internet firms, India's can't win the global giants. They must find niches

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One of our portfolio companies Frontier Markets has done some fabulous work in getting access to clean energy products for rural Rajasthan and creating village level entrepreneurs to distribute these products.

Meet the social entrepreneur empowering women into solar entrepreneurs in rural Rajasthan.

BrownTape, a market place enabler!

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Voonik Acquihires Getsty, A Personal Shopping Platform For Men Voonik Acquihires Getsty, A Personal Shopping Platform For Men

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Flipkart Devaluation: What it Means for Startups and E-commerce? E-commerce giant Flipkart has lost 27% of its valuation. is this the beginning of the end for India’s startups?

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Brokers offer trading backed by big data The Times Of India daily ePaper - Watch digital ePaper of India from around the world.

Budget 2016: To boost innovation, FM needs to unveil meaningful and specific proposals - Firstpost Paula Mariwala The government’s recent Startup India event, followed by a slew of announcements to accelerate and energize the ecosystem has certainly exci - Firstpost

Voo-Hoo..Voonik - its India's fastest growing Shopping App!!

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Indian Ecommerce's Best Kept Secret Voonik has created a solid company from scratch in a fiercely competitive market, quietly and efficiently. Every hopeful entrepreneur should take heart from this story

Sneak preview of Voonik's new commercial

#HarDinFashionKaro Voonik's First TVC - 60 Sec Life ek movie set hai imagine karo; Koi chance mat chhodo, fashion karo… Everyday and every occasion is an opportunity to look fashionable. You don't need to...

Mydentist targets 50 clinics in Bengaluru by end-2016 Dental care clinic chain Mydentist, which was started by Mumbai-based Vikram Vora in 2010, has plans to open 50 clinics in Bengaluru by the end of the next calendar year.

How my startup lost Rs15 lakh and shut down before its first anniversary My journey as a failed entrepreneur in India.

Personal shopping app startup Voonik opens web shop now - The Economic Times Voonik has launched a desktop site, bucking the wider trend of consumer Internet companies in India going mobile-only.

Want to remove fear of high costs of dental treatments: Vikram Vora, CEO, MyDentist | Latest... Want to remove fear of high costs of dental treatments: Vikram Vora, CEO, MyDentist - It all happened six years ago when the 30-year-old, US-returned engineer, Vikram Vora, who joined the family business of supplying dental equipment, saw disgruntled patients feeling the pinch of long waits and high…

Browntape, Sellerworx help small businesses manage their online operations across marketplaces -... Sellerworx works with 800 sellers on Flipkart, Paytm, Snapdeal, Shopclues, eBay and Amazon and, according to the company, as much as 60% of these sellers are active on the ecommerce platforms.

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SportzVillage mops up Rs 65 crore from Gaja Capital - The Economic Times Mid-stage PE firm Gaja Capital has invested about Rs 65 crore in sports and fitness education venture SportzVillage, the second investment.

Browntape in the news!

Flipkart looks to add 10,000 sellers through Turbo Charge campaign - Times of India E-commerce giant, Flipkart has launched a national campaign - "Turbo Charge campaign" to equip its sellers to prepare for the upcoming festive season rush and increase their seller base.

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The single biggest reason why startups succeed Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others -- and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people's, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the…

Being humble helps you get work done: Sujayath Ali - The Economic Times "My time at iNautix taught me that everyone deserves respect — you can get better work done simply by being genial," says Sujayath Ali, CEO and co-founder, Voonik.

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Voonik acqui-hires Trialkart to provide shoppers a virtual dressing room experience - The... Myntra, which recently shut its website to go app only, also wants to focus heavily on building capabilities around image recognition.

Voonik acquihires 6-month-old virtual dressing room app TrialKart to go after 'holy grail' of... Voonik, the Indian personal shopping app today announced that they had acqui-hired TrialKart, a mobile platform that provides a virtual dressing room experience.

Voonik.com: Making sense of online fashion Sujayath wondered why he needed to understand fashion to buy clothes. Can’t there be help at hand which would enable a customer make the right purchase—that was his line of thinking. And that formed the basis for Voonik

Indian innovation: Why we need to look beyond Silicon Valley Indian innovation and entrepreneurship suffer because they rely too much on the Silicon Valley model without the Valley’s infrastructure and ethos

Acknowledge junior employees: Aditi Balbar, Co-founder & MD, V Resorts - The Economic Times My first year at work: After commiting a mistake, I realised the importance of doing ones homework and taking time to respond.