Ritesh Agarwal is touted as one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the country. Having started Oyo rooms at 18, he knows a thing or two about starting young. Today, Oyo is worth over $500 million and can truly be said to be a disruptor of the hotel industry in India. So when a user on Quora asked on how to start a startup at 18, the then 19 year old Ritesh Agarwal jumped in and shared these insights.
Running a successful food business is far from simple. There are a number of things you should and shouldn’t do if you want your business to become successful. It’ll be hard in the beginning, but if you follow these dos and don’ts, you should soon find yourself with a successful food business!
Vehicles belonging to Ola and Uber have been seized in Bangalore for continuing to apply surge pricing rates. Rame Gowda, the commissioner of transport and road safety, said that more than 30 vehicles have been impounded and operations against the two companies are continuing.
Two builders from bangalore were in for a rude shock at the airport when the tickets and VISAs they had booked for a business trip to Singapore, booked through MakeMytrip, turned out to be fake.
Paytm is planning to launch public Wifi hotspots which will allow people to access their Paytm accounts when they’re on the move.
Rubbishing the report carried by DNA and putting any rumours of an Ola-Uber merger to rest, Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and CEO, Ola has taken to Twitter and has penned an impassioned blogpost.
With a new CEO, and 5 of its top execs gone, amidst a snipped valuation and a funding slowdown, and still a sign of profits to come, Flipkart, at least on the face of it, looks to be on the shaky ground.
Businesses are often accused of copying images, content, designs, and sometimes the entire business models. But sometimes you can get called out for copying another website’s privacy page of all things.
In a Twitter post, Pramod Rao, Zomato’s head of marketing, today called out Burrp, one of India’s first restaurant review and lifestyle websites, for having copied its entire privacy page. How did Zomato know? The copy was such a shoddy job that Burrp managed to copy a link to Zomato’s website as it is.
Punit Soni, after a protracted period of speculation, has finally quit Flipkart. He’s sent a farewell mail to senior management to this effect, and Friday will be his last day at work. An OfficeChai source has seen a copy of the email.