Interviews

Just last week, we had learnt that mobile messaging app leader WhatsApp achieved the milestone of 70 million active users in India - a country that has a little over than 250 million mobile internet users and has emerged as...

Xiaomi, widely called as Apple of China, needs no introduction now. The Chinese company which is growing leaps and bounds and giving sleepless nights to almost every smartphone manufacturer in Asian countries, is setting up new benchmarks by introducing...

Mukund Mohan was aware that the startup ecosystem in India is at its nascent stage and taking over as Director - Microsoft Ventures, is going to be a challenge. While Microsoft Ventures is committed to act as a strategic...

The growing number of events in India has created an opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs to fix the major issues of an industry which is often disorganised. Ticket booking and event promotion are one of the major concerns for event organising companies...

Indian E-Stores have just scratched the surface of the total E-commerce market in India. Internet users are looking for a more personalized experience, tweaked in real-time, based upon their interest, search and requirements though. Therefore, it’s important for E-commerce...

E-commerce Industry in India is expected to touch USD 10.49 billion (Rs. 62,967 Cr) by the end of 2013. In spite of this, India is yet to make a sizeable contribution to the global e-commerce sales of $1.22 trillion...

India has grown about 7.8x times, as compared to the US economy which has grown just about 3.6x, since 1985, according to the recent India Startup Report. And we can credit most of this growth to the enterprising ecosystem...

Mahesh Murthy is an endearing VC. If you Google the word endearing, the Google Ngram Viewer would tell you that the usage for this word has gradually declined over the last 200 odd years. However, if you Google the...

Just think it over first – Diabetes caused 4.6 million deaths in 2011. 366 million people across the globe are suffering from Diabetes and in next 18 years, the intensification will reach 552 million people. Unfortunately, 78,000 children develop...

E-commerce space in India is being bullish with thousands of ‘potential’ startups emerging every month. Consequently, the challenges and competition to stay afloat with significant value proposition is the main area of concern that is making such startups to...

With the incubation of startups ecosystem, almost every industry is facing diverse challenges and needs to make way for, probably, the next Facebook, Groupon or Zynga. Though, opportunities and ideas are flourishing the market - so the VCs - the hunt and poach process has...