Coverfox is an online insurance aggregator based of Mumbai. The young and energetic startup has just moved into a new office at Andheri, Mumbai and we got a chance to look at it.
This massive vibrant space of 20,000 square feet space strikes one as a sprawling office with a green ‘cover’ as trees and vines – both real and faux – adorn the walls, the cubicles and other spaces, giving it a natural, eco-friendly appeal.
Deepika Padukone is one of the most stellar success stories of Bollywood today. With 30+ films and billions in money under her kitty, the leggy model from Bengaluru has come a long way. But Deepika is also known to be a grounded, humble and deeply family oriented girl.
In philanthropist and Infosys founder Narayan Murthy’s wife Sudha Murthy’s book “Legacy”, Prakash Padukone’s letter to her daughter Deepika talks about her success, but most importantly expounds on her journey there. It also includes valuable lessons on staying humble and down to earth in the face of a charmed life.
Shoplifting or the act of stealing things from a shop isn’t uncommon. Thousands of such cases are reported and many more that go unnoticed or unreported. While there have been a few instances of shop keepers or onlookers publishing videos of shoplifting activities of late, this recent footage from a store in Hyderabad is quite shocking as well as amusing.
Amongst all the reasons quoted for starting a startup, the most common ones are “wanting to create something”, “passion to do”, and “be independent”. Very few founders would blatantly admit “to be rich” as one. However, being rich just happens to be one of the by products of a successful startup. Nine out of ten startups fail, but the ones that do sustain really rake in the moolah. And it can happen very, very quickly. So it’s no wonder that in a burgeoning startups ecosystem in India, some of the youngest richest Indians are startup founders.
Here’s the list of these startup flounders in the order of wealth and age.
As students spend the butt ends of their college lives, they live lives of entitlement and hyper sensitivity. The biggest banes of a student life could range from a slow internet connection to a bad date.
However, this CEO and a experienced professional wants to say it like it is. Kyle Reyes, the CEO of a marketing firm Silent Partner and a keynote speaker who’s well into his 40s, wrote an open letter addressing today’s millennials – people born in the late 80s/Early 90s. With the letter, he wishes to set the record about the professional life straight and present the bare facts about a career, instead of a rosy view. He also is quite brutal in calling out some of the fallacies of this generation about their sensitive nature and sense of entitlement. And ultimately, Reyes shares some hard hitting, but crucial tips about career and making it big.
It’s no secret that there’s a huge gap between India’s rich and India’s poor, but the numbers are truly staggering. The richest 1%…
Sachin Tendulkar has achieved everything one could possibly hope for in the world of cricket. And unlike other people, who start off slow,…
The standard rules of shares trading apply between between 12pm-4pm on weekdays and the base price of the alcohol is the MRP. However, come 6pm, and the bar turns into dalal street. Prices of alcohol go up as the demand rises, and they go down with a lowering of demand. Now here’s a bar you can be bullish on.
If you can count the number of people who wait for their office hours to get over and rush back home, there are also some who love to spend most of their time in office. All credit goes to startups who make sure that their employees feel at home by combining both fun and work at one place. And Treebo Hotels spanking new office located in HSR Layout, the Start-up hub of Bengaluru offers just that.
We did a quick tour and here’s some images from the lovely office.