Impacting a social change, from portugal to india

Nov 10, 2014

Every month, we share stories about how successful startups have been built, how entrepreneurs have given life to their ideas, and what aspiring entrepreneurs can learn from it. This time, for a…  

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A hacker’s trail

Nov 01, 2014

At HackerRank, skill is supreme. The technical recruitment platform currently sees participation from close to a million programmers and has on board 12,000 customers across industries. It has been doubling its revenue since the fourth quarter of 2013 and

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Betting on the need for cross-selling online

Nov 01, 2014

Saurabh Nangia, founder of Nexus Ventures-backed TargetingMantra, wants to bet on the e-commerce wave and offer personalization, up-selling and cross-selling tech tools to portals. A key trick up his sleeve: past experience as a software engineer

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A product-first approach

Nov 01, 2014

Kalaari Capital-backed Mettl adopted a product first strategy to reach 450 enterprise clients. Its next focus: fixing the sales and marketing engine to penetrate even further, across geographies

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Working the sales machine

Nov 01, 2014

Accel Partners-backed MindTickle has re-positioned itself as a sales readiness platform and partnered with Salesforce.com, to deliver skills training to sales teams across companies

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The road between tinder and matrimony.com

Nov 01, 2014

TrulyMadly, a modern matchmaking startup, founded by Sachin Bhatia and Rahul Kumar of MakeMyTrip, and Hitesh Dhingra of Letsbuy.com, aims to do what traditional matrimony sites haven’t done in the last 15 years – understand and address the compatibility

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The Snapdeal Pivot

Nov 01, 2014

In January 2013, Snapdeal had a mere US $100,000 in the bank, a small chunk left after it had burned through almost all of the US $57 million it had raised since September 2009. The company was also gearing

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In the traveller’s shoes

Nov 01, 2014

For Aloke Bajpai, pursuing his passion for travelling and entrepreneurship, led him to setup ixigo.com, which offers actionable information to travellers. The company is backed by investments from Makemytrip.com, SAIF Partners and Singapore-based BAF Spectrum

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Trippin’ on a plan

Oct 01, 2014

For travel itinerary portal, TripHobo, the journey’s just begun. At present, it has 25,000 itinerary plans listed and provides information on 250 cities. It also has 1.5 lakh unique visitors per month and by next fiscal, it

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The need of every boring hour

Oct 01, 2014

The Nearify app, with a user base of 100,000 registered users, collates information on local events and has a listing of over one million upcoming events. In the next year, it aims to list over two million upcoming events

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