Special Report
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Bengaluru: Climbing up the innovation ladder
With a vibrant startup culture and robust venture capital funding, the Garden City is on the cusp of becoming a global innovation hub. It only needs some big institutes and an efficient mentor ecosystem in place
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How Lahore can be the new Bengaluru
Pakistan has a plethora of new-age technology entrepreneurs. They just need investors and mentoring to create the perfect ecosystem in the country for startups to flourish
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The road to Snapdeal 2.0
How the virtual marketplace is building a self-sustaining ecosystem to overtake Flipkart as market leader
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Online furniture retailing finally comes home
Online furniture retailers, buoyed by huge growth opportunities, are investing in technologies like augmented reality and hand-holding customers to design theme-based homes
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Valuations of private firms are nebulous: Accel Partners
Seeing another $15-billion internet company—like Flipkart—grow within a decade is not the new normal, says the India Arm of Accel Partners, who were early backers of Facebook
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Will an app-only strategy click in India?
Web-based businesses are using different approaches to mobile apps
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Classifieds are going through a change: Quikr's Pranay Chulet
Pranay Chulet, co-founder and CEO of Quikr, is constantly thinking of newer ways to harness the potential of Quikr's huge database
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Fighting the ecommerce froth
That Indian ecommerce firms are highly-valued is no longer even up for debate. But to call the situation a bubble is not only premature, it is incorrect, say experts
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The next possible unicorns from India
The early success of some billion-dollar startups in the country signals the rise of potential unicorns in India
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A strangulation approach to regulation is in play, says Shriram Group founder R Thyagarajan
Shriram Group founder R Thyagarajan says the RBI's directives have led to the death of most NBFCs in the country and that a new authority must take responsibility for development of credit for the excluded
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For GM Rao, family legacy matters
GM Rao built his eponymous infrastructure conglomerate from scratch and has put in mechanisms to ensure that his family doesn't squander his legacy. Will it stand the test of time?