8 Indian Startups Selected For First Ever Google Launchpad
Eight Indian startups are a part of Google’s first ever Launchpad Accelerator that began on Monday in Silicon Valley.
Category: Startups
Housing Appoints Cofounder Snehil Buxy As Chief Product Officer
Housing.com has appointed Snehil Buxy as its Chief Product Officer. Buxy was a part of the original 12 member founding team of Housing. The 26 year old was also close to former CEO Rahul Yadav.
TRAI Reprimands Facebook For Its Free Basics Campaign In The Most Epic Way Possible
“Your urging has the flavour of reducing this meaningful constructive exercise designed to produce informed decisions into a crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll.” This isn’t a school headmaster admonishing an errant student. It’s TRAI letting Facebook know what it thought of its Free Basics poll that generated 9 million responses.
Indian Business Chat Apps Have Some Serious Competition; WhatsApp To Focus On B2C
Over the last year, India has seen a mushrooming of chat apps that aimed to connect consumers directly with businesses. Services like LookUp, Haptik and Helpchat all had business models that involved setting up and easy, phone-based communication channel between users and local businesses, and had met with varying levels of success. But the industry is now likely to be upturned. Whatsapp, the global chat behemoth with 70 million Indian users, is looking to enter the space in a big way.
9 Factors To Consider To Choose A Great Name For Your Startup
The name for your company, product or the brand is probably going to be one of the most important decisions you’ll make in the process of starting a company, only second to the business itself. It will be the name you would mentally verbalise a 100 times a day and hope for it to become a household name in due time. So what are the factors one should keep before naming their company? We asked a few startup founders and did our research and found the following patterns:
Makemytrip Accused Of Tax Evasion To The Tune Of Rs.75 crores
While the founder Deep Kalra was in spotlight at the startup India event, the Nasdaq-listed travel company MakeMytrip had a run-in with the tax authorities of India. According to the Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence (DGCEI), MakeMytrip has failed to deposit all of the service tax the online travel aggregator has collected from the public. An executive from the company was taken into police custody for the same and later released on bail.
Mumbai Dabbawalas To Launch Own Delivery Company
India’s fledging hyperlocal delivery startups now have some competition – and it’s not from another yet another superfunded startup trying its luck in the already crowded space. It’s from Mumbai’s iconic dabbawalas, who’ve been delivering food to Mumbai’s office-goers since 1890.
Flipkart Ditches App-Only Strategy; Republic Day Sale To Be Available On Web
Flipkart appears to have put the final nail in the coffin of its app-only push that it began in May last year. Its latest sale, centered around Republic Day, will be available on both desktop and app. There’s also a company-wide move to make all products and services available on desktops, company insiders tell OfficeChai.
How To Register Your Startup: The Complete Lowdown
Anyone who aims to build a successful startup must also know where to start from. While in practice you can start operating your business, the minute you have an idea and a team to execute it, a company or a startup is a legal entity and it must be registered with the government and have a proper, and legally-recognizable status. A company can achieve that by “incorporating” or formally registering itself as a commercial entity. Here’s all you need to know about how to register your startup.