Why I Stopped Attending Startup Conferences
Startup conferences gave me a thrill like no other. Back when my startup was basically a website and a Facebook page, attending conferences just made everything look so official.
Category: Startups
Flipkart’s Valuation Raised Again, This Time By Valic
Flipkart seems to have turned a corner as far as its valuation by investors is concerned. After Fidelity had raised its valuation by 2.7% two weeks ago, Flipkart has now had its valuation raised by mutual fund investor Valic, this time by 10%.
Exclusive: SAIF Partners Backed Care24 Fires 20 People From Its Mumbai Office
Care24, a SAIF Partners-backed startup, has fired around 20 people from its Powai office.
9 Things Managers Do That Make Good Employees Quit
Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers.
AngelList Enters India With Plan To Launch Syndicates
Seeing the growing interest in the startup ecosystem in India, the US-based online platform for venture capital, AngelList, is making its foray into the country.
Why Is Naveen Tewari Doing Planks To Promote Xiaomi’s New Phone?
Xiaomi Vice President Hugo Barra put up a video showing him planking while promoting the Redmi 3S. He also challenged InMobi CEO Naveen Tewari to follow suit, and he complied.
Jet.com Has Been Acquired For $3 Billion
This is the usual startup lifecycle, but on crack. Jet.com was founded in late 2014. It became a unicorn in 2015, hitting a valuation of $1 billion 4 months after its launch. And today, it was acquired by Walmart for $3 billion.
Entrepreneurs Are Sharing What Their First Few Jobs Were
When the hashtag #FirstSevenJobs started trending on Twitter in which people shared what their first seven jobs were, entrepreneurs also chimed in. And it made for fascinating reading.
Orkut Co-founder Is Back, Starts A New Social Network ‘Hello’
Orkut Buyokkoten, the co-founder of the eponymous social network Orkut has co-founded Hello, a social network based on common interests, almost 5 years after Orkut was deprecated by Google. Hello is based on connecting people based on their passions and shared interests.