NextBigWhat Weekly Digest : Getting Married Early Ties You Down? Maybe NOT for Entrepreneurs

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Of Indiaplaza, One of India’s Oldest E-commerce Company: Dead or Alive? What’s happening at Indiaplaza, India’s oldest e-commerce company? . Read More Pi of Life : Getting Married Early Ties You Down? Maybe NOT for Entrepreneurs And remember, when the dust settles, when you’ve either shut shop, or made your pile of cash in an exit, or gotten done with that world tour, or whatever – as you start to grow old and look back at your memories, it’s the relationship and the companionship that’ll still be around to share those memories with over a cup of coffee. . Read More Vodafone Says Data Usage in India Up by 29% On The Back of 3G Growth At the end of June 2013, Vodafone had 41.2 million data customers out of which 3.7 million are on 3G. . Read More Hey Entrepreneur : 5 Signs You Are Deep Inside the Startup Echochamber There is nothing wrong with a startup echo-chamber, just that there is a high probability of one building a narrow focus and eventually, losing sight of the big picture. . Read More Introducing : bigMobilityConf [August 24th, Bangalore] Scheduled for August 24th (in Bangalore), bigMobilityConf is the evolved version of Appnomy Conferences that we used to do earlier. . Read More India’s Square, Ezetap launches $50 Device to Turn Mobiles into a PoS Machine Payment startup Ezetap has launched a low cost point of sale device which sells for under $50, that can be plugged into a smart device or a feature phone to turn it into an intelligent point of sale device. . Read More Startup Lessons from Israel : Yiyeh B’seder [It’ll be ok!] “Yiyeh B’seder” which translates as – “it’ll be ok”. Challenges or obstacles just seem smaller or non-existent to most Israelis. . Read More Discounted ESOPs Are Not Taxable: A Positive Move for Indian Startups A special bench of the Bangalore Income Tax appellate Tribunal has ruled that since discounted stock option plans are used to retain employees and not raise capital, it can’t be treated as capital expenditure or contingent liability, taxable under existing provisions. . Read More Exclusive: India’s $1 bn Innovation Fund Nears First Close [Investment Thesis & Details] The Rs 5,500 cr (~ $1 bn) India Inclusive Innovation fund which was proposed by the National Innovation Council is waiting cabinet approval to apply for approval from the Securities and Exchanges Bureau of India (SEBI) to begin operations. . Read More Content Marketing for the New Age Politician [Think Digital + Social] Building friendship with journalists, leaking information about opposition, sponsoring events, trying to get eyeballs and attention without directly paying for it, is all content marketing for political parties. But there has been tectonic shift in content marketing methods. . Read More - Team NextBigWhat.com. - unsubscribe

iPhone Sales Falling Drastically in India; Yebhi to be IRCTC’s E-commerce Partner.

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LowPrice App, The Easiest Way To Find The Cheapest Book Online With a large number of online book retailer offering discounts anywhere between 20-50% inconsistently, it is difficult to know who has the best discount. . Read More Pearson and Village Capital Set Aside $150,000 to Fund Indian Education Startups Pearson and Village capital have committed $100,000 and $50,000 towards the award, respectively. . Read More Taking Notes Gets Easier with TxtPad & Bat Notes [Indian Startups] Bat Notes and TxtPad are two lightweight tools by India based startups, which may not be as feature rich as Evernote, but will help you save notes from the web, Twitter or from an SMS easily. . Read More Yebhi to be IRCTC’s E-commerce Partner. Shouldn’t Railways Fix Ticketing First? While the partnership is hugely beneficial to Yebhi, should IRCTC get into the business before it fixes its core business of ticketing? . Read More iPhone Sales Falling Drastically in India: Report According to IDC, between January and March, Apple sold some 120,000 iPhones in India, down from the 230,000 in the October-December quarter of last year. . Read More If Your Mobile Phone Was Stolen & You Hate the Phone Thief, You Will Do This Ever wonder if you could do something a stolen mobile phone? Register your new phone or stolen phone on MyCellWasStolen & avenge the theft by doing your bit to end the racket! . Read More Product Sampling Meets an Online Platform at TryOrTrade TryOrTrade is an e-commerce platform which works on the principle of targeted sampling. Product samples are fetched directly from the brands instead of distributors and are made available to public for sale. . Read More Bharati Script Wants To Unify Indian Languages: One For All, All For One Indian languages are more logical compared to a lot of its counterparts, but Indian language scripts tend to be unreasonably complicated and ornate. . Read More iOS App Updates: WhatsApp Finally Adopts the Freemium Model and Google Maps Comes to iPad Messaging app WhatsApp has finally gone free on iOS but will charge $0.99 after the first year. This is in line with the subscription model on other platforms like Android, Windows Phone, Symbian and BlackBerry. . Read More Exclusive: India’s $1 bn Innovation Fund Nears First Close [Investment Thesis & Details] The Rs 5,500 cr (~ $1 bn) India Inclusive Innovation fund which was proposed by the National Innovation Council is waiting cabinet approval to apply for approval from the Securities and Exchanges Bureau of India (SEBI) to begin operations. . Read More So This Startup Dude Walks Into a Bar…and Vgulps Bacchanalian Bangaloreans don’t really need a reason to drink, but in case you are looking for one, it is here. . Read More 500 Startups Invites Applications for New Batch; Instamojo Cuts Charges by 50% [Startup Roundup] The accelerator, founded by super angel Dave McClure, which takes a large number of international startups (especially from India), invests anywhere between $25,000- $250,000 in a large number of early stage startups. . Read More Have a nice reading! Team NextBigWhat.com. - unsubscribe