Uber Launches in India; IRCTC Launches Ecommerce Service

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- Only a day left for bigMobilityConf. DO Attend! Uber Launches in India (Bangalore). Is Under 'Secret Testing Mode'. The Bangalore launch as we know in detail is NOT the typical cab service, but a service for HNI segment – the ones who need Merc to travel in the city, i.e. the uber segment (Delhi is next). . Read More Announced: bigMobilityConf Agenda NextBigWhat's bigMobilityConf is scheduled for this Saturday (August 31st) and like any other NextBigWhat conference, we have great lineup of speakers, amazing content and importantly, super powerful startup demos! . Read More Rate Everything & Make Informed Choices With Social Scoring Service Bugscore Bugscore, the online social scoring service, allows you to score and compare any person, establishments or other products from around the world on a range of attributes, across time. . Read More Reinventing Traditional Paper Craft 'Sanjhi' With a Modern Twist: Pooja Ajmera [DOER] The traditional paper-cutting artform of India, has its origins in the region of Braj in Uttar Pradesh. It is now being revived by a various artists from around the country. . Read More Blume Ventures Makes Strategic Investment in Bangalore based Kuliza Blume Ventures has made a strategic investment in Kuliza, a software development company which works on web, mobile and social media products. . Read More IRCTC's Online Shopping Site Powered by Yebhi is Live The ticketing arm of Indian railways has launched its e-commerce site in partnership with Yebhi.com. IRCTC's online shopping site powered by Yebhi is live at shop.irctc.co.in and is retailing clothing, accessories, home decor and electronics. . Read More The Thought Process Behind 'Entry is Free, Exit is NOT' Policy at bigMobilityConf The bigMobility Goal : Let's enable great mobile (app) businesses from the country. And the conference is the beginning, first step towards that. . Read More Nokia Extends DVLUP to India; To Reward Developers With Phones, Accessories, Promotional Opportunities The DVLUP program was started last November in a way to reward Nokia/Window Phone developers for developing apps. The developers can earn and redeem points for rewards such as the latest Nokia devices, accessories, promotional opportunities for apps and more. . Read More Use Purplista to Quickly Find the Shop You were Looking For Research Online Purchase Offline (ROPO) is a trait widely observed among Indian shoppers. Purplista has enhanced it a step further by integrating it with location based mapping. . Read More Hacker Leaks Documents Related to Indian Defense Establishments ECIL & Others The hacker accessed data related to India's space agency and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and the website of Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) . Read More Quick Guide to Negotiating Term Sheets for Startups [Part 1] So, you have found someone (a VC) who wants to back you with the money you so desperately need. Just sign above the dotted line. Well, not so fast…You need to know how negotiating term sheets can help. . Read More - Team NextBigWhat.com. Unsubscribe here.

What VCs and Angels Owe to Startups

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Quick Guide to Negotiating Term Sheets for Startups [Part 1] So, you have found someone (a VC) who wants to back you with the money you so desperately need. Just sign above the dotted line. Well, not so fast…You need to know how negotiating term sheets can help. . Read More Microsoft’s Office Mobile App for Android Now Available in India Microsoft which released Office Mobile for Android phones at the beginning of the month, has now announced the availability of the app in India and also 14 other countries in the APAC region. . Read More India is at the epicenter of Impact investing: Jayant Sinha, MD, Omidyar Network India “India is the epicenter of impact investing in the world,” said Jharkhand born Jayant Sinha, the Managing Director of Omidyar Network, who reckons that the state is one of the “worst places” in the world on some counts. Edited excerpts of an interview. . Read More A Look at Future Group’s Online Foray: Present Tense While Futurebazaar isn’t any close to what it set out to achieve, its traffic is dwindling. Futurebazaar’s traffic started dropping off sometime earlier this year. When there is a fire raging in the brick and mortar store, big retail has little time to spare for e-commerce. . Read More Gadget Prices Set To Go North As Rupee Continues Its Slide; EMIs & Freebies To Ease Pain Big players including Samsung, which has a 31.5% share of the Indian handset market and, Acer which had a 10.4% share of PC sales last quarter have confirmed that they have or will be raising prices in the coming days. . Read More What VCs and Angels Owe to Startups The practical truth is that founders often tend to NOT hedge their bets when it comes to raising money and given the stretched management bandwidth, most of the early stage startups talk to less than 2 serious angels at the same time. . Read More Sify Plans To Offer Net Telephony If Unified License Comes Through Under the Sify 3.0 plan, the company wants to offer different services including data centre solutions, cloud-based applications, system integration and telecom infrastructure. . Read More Noida Based Appy Pie Raises $10,000 on Kickstarter for DIY Mobile Game Builder Appy Pie’s cloud based platform started the Kickstarter campaign in August to develop a platform that lets users create games on the fly. . Read More Facebook Releases its First Transparency Report. Indian Stands at #2 Facebook shared 79% of requested data with U.S. government , while only 50% with Indian government. . Read More Team NextBigWhat.com Unsubscribe here

This Popular Site (As per Comscore) Just Doesn't Exists

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» Attend bigMobiliConf and Meet India's Amazing Mobile Startups and App Developers. Facebook Releases its First Transparency Report. Indian Stands at #2 Facebook shared 79% of requested data with U.S. government , while only 50% with Indian government. . Read More Aurus Network Launches CourseHub, An Automated Video Platform For Educators CourseHub is a cloud based video creation, management and distribution solution. Teachers or institutes just need install the software and start delivering content. It works with a phone camera, webcam or an HD camera as well. . Read More Chasing Woz, and a Movie Review (of sorts) For some time now, I’ve been waiting to make this grand statement: Me and Woz, our paths crossed a couple of years ago. An uptight bunch invited him for a talk in Bangalore. Word from the top landed in the newsroom that Apple’s Co-founder Steve Wozniak is coming to Bangalore. . Read More SoCXO : Content Curation Meets the CXOs. SoCXO attempts to solve a hidden incentive of CXOs – be in the know of recent developments/news and use that to impress the world around! . Read More Vuclip Announces New Technology for Buffer Free Videos on Mobiles Vuclip has unveiled a Dynamic Adaptive Transcoding Technology which it says will improve the video viewing on mobile devices by allowing a seamless experience across any network and any device by simultaneous transcoding the content and dynamically adapting the video stream to the constantly varying bandwidths. . Read More #MobileLife: Bringing Gesture Control to Your Android Phone Without Paying a Premium Most of the phones launched this year have tried to highlight gesture based software enhancements. While the phone makers will have you thinking that these are unique features, there are a number of third-party apps which bring the same functionality to most Android phones. . Read More Dear Startups, Don’t Let the Media Glitz Get To You Mainstream media coverage is a vanity metric for early stage startups. Early stage startups need to pay attention to the product and customers more than anything else. You don’t need to take it from me. Ask any reasonably successful entrepreneur and you will know. . Read More Yes. It’s 2013. But If You Need to Send A Physical Greeting Card, Use the Dakiyaa Mobile App Dakiyaa is a mobile app which allows you to create and send physical greeting cards in minutes. The cards are customized for India and can be ordered from anywhere in the world but delivered only in India. . Read More Guide: How to Register Trademark For Your Brand in India In this post, the folks at Zepo walk you through a step by step guide to trademarking a brand in India. . Read More Mumbai Startup Anulekh Rejuvenates Indian Soil For Better Crops With Amazonian Technique BIOSAT, a product by Mumbai based startup Anulekh, is helping Indian farmers improve crop yield and reduce water and fertilizer use. . Read More GSF Superangels Announces 5 Seed Stage Investments With Other Investors GSF Superangels, an angel investment network behind the tech accelerator program GSF Accelerator, has announced seed investments in 5 companies including Little Eye Labs, Tushky, Zapr, HackerEarth and Weareholidays. . Read More Fueled by Government Orders, PC Shipments Hit a New High. But How Many Are Still Lying in Godowns? A record of 3.53 million personal computers were shipped in the second quarter of 2013, says IDC. . Read More Mobile Surveys Startup VoxApp Raises Angel Funding From Blume Ventures & Others The funding was raised from investors including Blume Ventures, Narayanan Shadagopan (MD, Pragati India Fund), Palaash Ventures, Sachin Bhatia (entrepreneur, co-founder – MakeMyTrip), Ramesh Haridas (CEO, Parakweet, NY), Vikas Taneja (MD, BCG Boston) and is backed by Sidharth Rao, CEO, Webchutney. . Read More Irony : This Popular Site (According to Comscore) Just Doesn’t Exist The detailed report (from Comscore) talks about the growth of different categories of consumption and interestingly, mentions how few leading Indian news sites are attracting substantial share of visitors from abroad. . Read More Podcasting App Aurality Pivots. Founders Launch Gifting Service Giftery Cofounded by Aurality cofounders (and others), Giftery enables visitors to select gifts from 70+ merchants and send the gifts to recipients. The Mumbai based startup has raised funding from Rajan Anandan and Blume Ventures. . Read More Why is NOW The Perfect Time to Start a Pure Digital App Company in India? [Interview With Dev Khare] There isn’t a lot of Venture Capital going into pure digital apps in India. But it’s starting to look up. We asked Dev Khare, who has been in the mobile industry for more than 15 years, how the app ecosystem in India is shaping up. Find out why he thinks it will be a big deal soon. . Read More Have a nice reading! Good bye