How Long Term Travel Helped Jan Koum Come Up With The Idea For Whatsapp
Long term travel is thought to be a bit of a millennial luxury, an escape for gap-year students, itinerant travelers, and people who’re somewhat…
Category: Startups
Critics Have Been Skeptical Of Elon Musk’s Tunnels Plan, But He’s Just Explained Why It’s Viable
Elon Musk’s product announcements are usually met with a mixture of wonderment and skepticism, but his latest plan raised more eyebrows than usual….
Paytm Taps Into Bharat, Says Majority Of Transactions Are Now Offline And In Non-Metro Cities
Paytm might have become the first Indian unicorn to cross over into Bharat. The company has said that a majority of its transactions…
Food Delivery Startup Runnr Discontinues Operations
Yet another food delivery startup appears to have bitten the dust. Runnr, which operated in Bangalore and Mumbai, appears to have shut down…
Elon Musk Might’ve Just Created A Company Of What Many Thought Was Just A Twitter Joke
Four months ago, Elon Musk had sent out the following series of tweets: Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a…
Flipkart Celebrates 10th Anniversary By Paying People To Tweet About How Awesome It Is
Flipkart completed 10 glorious years this week. Through its journey, it’s ushered in India’s e-commerce revolution, kickstarted India’s startup scene, and managed to…
Hike Suffers Ignominy Of Not Even Being Among Banned Social Networks In Kashmir
This is one ban you wouldn’t be happy to miss out on. The Indian government yesterday decided to temporarily ban several websites in Kashmir after…
Uber Is Finally Letting Users Give Feedback On Their Annoying Pool Co-Passengers
Carpooling is a pretty rad concept — drivers get more people on the ride, users get to save some cash, and taking cars off…
How Freshdesk Brilliantly Turned An Early Competitor’s Insult Into An Advantage, And Capitalized On It
Freshdesk today is one of India’s biggest B2B startup success stories. It’s raised $149 million (Rs. 1,000 crore) so far, and its valuation…