Vice Media, the content behemoth known for its hard-hitting, gritty coverage of current events, is finally coming to India. Its India entry will be in partnership with the Times Group, which also partners with other global digital publications such as Huffington Post and Business Insider.
The news reached epidemic proportions a few hours earlier today with journalists calling to ask if I (and many others) now thought that Indian entrepreneurship was dealt a terrible blow with Nikesh Arora’s resignation from Softbank. But no. One man’s resignation letter to his boss does not an Indian start-up disaster make.
Coworking is an upcoming concept in India and is catching up pretty quickly. As a bootstrapped startup or freelancer, it’s very hard to find an affordable place to work and grow your business. Especially in a city like Mumbai where commercial real estate prices can be sky high, coworking spaces make a lot of sense. This is where Mumbai Coworking Spaces comes in. It offers an affordable working space to startups, entrepreneurs, freelancers, etc.
Nikesh Arora was one of the biggest names on the Indian startup scene. As the President of Softbank, he’d overseen some of the biggest investments in Indian startups in 2015, including large rounds in Housing, Oyo, Grofers and Snapdeal.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Softbank President Nikesh Arora is stepping down from his post. A few hours ago, he had been given a clean chit in a probe into alleged foul play in the firm’s investments in Indian start-ups Oyo Rooms and Housing.com.
While the recent reports of mass layoffs, funding winters, down rounds and campus hires deferrals may have put a cast of shadow on the employability of startups, Linkedin’s data on top Indian companies best at attracting and retaining top talent does away with any doubts that top Indian startups still remain the employers of choice for India’s top talent.
As Flipkart’s top leadership has left the company, the products that they’d developed seem to have gone with them. Flipkart has decided that it will be retiring Ping, its social chat feature, and its image search function, two products that it had launched amidst much fanfare last year.
Working at a startup can be a life changing experience. Being a part of a business as it’s being built, grown and scaled up and contributing to it every step of the way can indeed be a satisfying career goal. Most young people would prefer to work at a startup a conventional company for their friendly work culture and minimal HR intervention. However, when startups too start adopting and enforcing similar policies and rules as those companies, it defines the employee morale to give the job their 100%, slack away or quit altogether.
Festivals and special days are becoming an opportunity for Indian brands to not only showcase their quirky, innovate side but also integrate their product into the campaign. While many companies, especially startups, post a message or do an ad, some go all out and pull off elaborate campaigns to celebrate the occasion day. Fathers’ Day celebrated on June 19th, has also become a festival that warrants those campaigns.
We did a round up of the best of Fathers’ day campaigns this year.