This article was co-written with  Our startup, hit an important milestone in June this year, when we reached US$1 million of sales on our peer-to-peer marketplace for secondhand things. For a small, not-very-well-funded startup, we are very proud of ourselves. We had no fancy marketing campaigns, no popup booths, no professional PR, no outdoor advertising, and only a limited PPI (pay per install) budget. What […]

A year ago I noticed a pattern in the least successful startups we’d funded: they all seemed hard to talk to. It felt as if there was some kind of wall between us. I could never quite tell if they understood what I was saying. This caught my attention because earlier we’d noticed a pattern among the most successful startups, and it seemed to hinge […]

If you think that the brilliant mind behind , one of the web’s easiest-to-use landing-page generators, comes from a hard-core sales and marketing background, you’d be wrong.  Related:  Clay Collins, LeadPage’s co-founder and CEO, isn’t a sales guy at all. He’s a PhD dropout in developmental neuropsychology, a field from which he approached issues in psychology using a highly scientific perspective. But the science world’s loss is the […]

For two decades, Noe Sanchez sent money from California to his father in Mexico City through storefront outlets of traditional remittance firms such as Western Union. Now he grabs his smartphone and uses Remitly, one of several new competing mobile apps promoting cheap and quick international transfers. Sanchez quickly got over his initial unease of sending money through an unfamiliar company. “If it goes badly, […]

The long, strange saga of Gawker Media, Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan came to an end last month when Univision the media outlet for $135 million at auction. While Univision bought the company’s entire portfolio of sites, the frequently controversial Gawker.com shortly after the sale. If you’re unfamiliar with the events leading up to Gawker’s demise, here’s a quick primer. In 2012, Gawker published a […]

In 2012, Matt McCann came up with the idea for a website that uses crowdsourcing to. McCann, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheeled walker, was intent on using his computer expertise to collect information on the accessibility of places like restaurants, hotels and tourist attractions around the world. Four years later, all his hard work has taken shape, as is scheduled to launch this […]

When one hears the phrase “Startup Hub,” the mind’s eye most likely automatically conjures up images of locations like New York City, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Boston. However, the Midwest region has been developing some real challenger cities to the “Startup Hub” throne. According to , which is an “umbrella of annual reports that measures U.S. entrepreneurship across national, state and top 40 metro levels,” Columbus, […]

Startups have always yearned for VC funding and have been slightly unaware of the advantages of seeking the same money from government bodies. Dr. Som Singh, founder and trustee of Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CEE), spoke to Entrepreneur India about the galore of advantages that startups can avail by partnering with government funds and organizations. Through CEE, Som helps startups avail uncollateralized loans from Startup […]

Everyone does not have the knowledge to manage an investment and its nitty-gritty’s while seeking education overseas. While procuring an education loan, might not be a huge task, understanding its logistics and payback schemes along with the core financial details still remains a tough cookie to crack for the middle-class families. In such a scenario, for the middle-class families, the need to rely on financial formulae […]

  For a while now the food tech sector has been mourning under the impact of weak funding and frequent failures of business models. Earlier this year,  Zomato’s valuation was by the brokerage arm of HSBC.  Companies like TinyOwl, FoodPanda and Faasos have seen several changes at their organization to keep afloat. Good news from Swiggy Monday’s announcement comes as a ray of hope. As […]