More than just a game

Dec 01, 2014

Passion for computer technology and gaming prompted Nitish Mittersain to start a gaming company, Nazara Technologies. Today, its technology and distribution have enabled it to eye an annual revenue of close to Rs. 500 crore in the next two years

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The innovator’s advantage

Dec 01, 2014

Innovation has become Trivitron’s key differentiator as it forges global relationships to put India on the medical technology map

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The freshdesk story decoded

Dec 01, 2014

Through a deep dive into the Freshdesk backstory, Girish Mathrubootham, founder and CEO of the cloud-based customer support software venture, explains to us the defining moments of what is now one of India’s fastest growing startups

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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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Building scale in the water technology space

Nov 01, 2014

The Wabag Group, now headquarted in Chennai, was recently recognized by TiECON Chennai as a Billion Dollar Baby. In this interview with us, Rajiv Mittal explains to us the company’s future growth strategies in the water technology space

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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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