Latest Posts from Pluggd.in for 21/05/2012

Latest articles from Pluggd.in. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Latest from Pluggd.in Why did I say no to Funding? This part of my story starts taking shape in the month of December in 2011. I was juggling around my day job with my startup. You can't hide things for long in social media and before my employer could give me a pink slip, I made the move. However, this was also the time when I had started meeting a lot of people and shared about my blog, armed with just a notepad and no proper networking etiquette and business cards on me. One such visit was to a funding meetup. Read More Microsoft study claims that 52% of SMBS found it easier to scale business, post cloud adoption Indian SMBs using the cloud also spend 72 % less time each week managing security than companies not using the cloud. They are also 22 times more likely to have reduced what they spend on managing security as a percentage of overall IT budget. Read More TaxiForSure raises funding from Accel Partners, Helion Venture Partners and Blume Ventures Serendipity Infolabs Pvt. Ltd., which runs the online taxi booking site TaxiForSure, has raised venture capital funding from Accel Partners, Helion Venture Partners and Blume Ventures Read More Mumbai-based Ambab provides Service-as-a-Product to Startups Service-as-a-Product, or SaaP, shortly, is different from the SaaS model in that you get a dedicated infrastructure, database, and dedicated software, with complete control over code and data, in a standard, quick, easy, and scalable implementation with flexibility of payment. Read More Letsbuy – bought! Now what? Letsbuy employees are, however, certain that the brand will be wiped out. "From the looks of it, Flipkart is going to kill Letsbuy (all warehouses of letsbuy except Delhi have been closed down). Read More Healthkart acquires Madeinhealth, its biggest rival As the e-commerce sector sees huge growth with nearly 100 million Indians online now, increased consolidation is expected. Healthkart's co-founder Prashant Tandon estimates this newest acquisition will help the company tap into the $1 billion sports-nutrition market in India. Read More More to read: Here is how to offer *deal* to your prospective employer We are hiring interns, looking for backbenchers TRAI Recommendations on Licensing Mobile VAS: A Step backward? Facebook Poll : 36% of you believe that the value will go down Startup Deal: Get 50% off on your Logo design Announcing UnPluggd We're excited to announce the next edition of UnPluggd, India's biggest startup event. More here.

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