Rentomo: A Startup That Lets You To Borrow & Lend Stuff
At the heart of the booming startup culture in India lies a strong influence of the oft-used buzzword “Sharing Economy”. It enables buyers…
Category: Startups
Andhra Pradesh Govt. To Create 5 New Incubators In The State
The Andhra Pradesh government is pulling out all stops to turn the state into a startup hub. After it had announced plans to set up India’s largest startup incubator in Hyderabad earlier this week, it has now announced that it plans to create five world-class incubators in the state. It would spend Rs. 750 crore on these incubators over the next 4 years.
Paytm To Block Abusive Customers From Its Platform
Paytm had come across a problem that’s familiar to all e-commerce companies in India – customers being rude and abusive towards their support staff. But unlike other companies that believe in the customer always being right, Paytm decided to take a stand. The company has decided to block customers from their platform who are unreasonably belligerent.
Why Zomato Is Publicizing Its Strenuous Work Culture
Zomato, like all major companies, conducts regular surveys to get a sense of the pulse of its workforce – to see if employees are content, and discover what their grievances are. On this survey was an innocuous question – On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to refer a friend at Zomato?
The average score the company received was 3.5.
Snapdeal, Micromax Founders Schmoozing On Twitter Over YU
Snapdeal Cofounder Kunal Bahl and Micromax founder Rahul Sharma have just shared a series of cryptic tweets on twitter.
Mumbai Taxis On Strike, Uber Comes Up With The Perfect Response
Uber has grown at a astonishing pace to be worth $50 billion within 6 years of its inception, but its rise has been against fearsome odds, the most prominent of which has been the resistance of traditional taxi drivers whose services they have tried to disrupt. From the US to France to India, taxi unions have attempted to thwart the cab hailing company’s rise, with mixed results.
Flipkart Issues Legal Notice To Blogger Who Started FlipkartVsAmazon.com
Amit Bhawani wanted to solve a $100 billion problem that had been vexing business insiders, industry watchers and casual consumers alike. He wanted to get a handle on the e-commerce space in India and understand which of the two stalwarts, Amazon and Flipkart, was doing better. He chose a rather unconventional way to go about this. Instead of poring over balance sheets and decoding graphs with GMV figures, he went straight to the consumer – he set up www.FlipkartVsAmazon.com.
How We Built CommonFloor – Vikas Malpani
Vikas Malpani is the Co-Founder of CommonFloor.com and Head of CommonFloor Groups. In this exclusive writeup for OfficeChai, he talks about his journey while building real estate listing portal commonfloor.com
The Economic Times Business Knights Summit 2015
In order to make this a sustained push in business growth, it is imperative that businesses across the country collaborate and harness synergies. The Economic Times Business Knights conclave is intended to bring together business leaders and the finest business minds to ideate, conceive and deliberate on challenges and provide direction for strategic & progressive growth.