Onions as a Customer Acquisition Tool? Yes!

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Use Hike Messenger On Airtel For 90 Days Without Data Charges The app was launched in December last year by Bharti SoftBank, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Japan’s SoftBank Corp. Softbank had invested $7 million in the app company which claimed to have crossed 5 million users since its launch in December last year. . Read More The Indian Payment Gateway Survey : Calling Ecommerce Companies The Indian Ecommerce market has grown well over the last few years, but the underlying infrastructure, i.e. the payment gateways haven’t scaled to match the growth. . Read More More Indians Join the Ultra Rich Club; Has The Highest Population of Ultra Rich Women The interesting insight about India is that 16% of the UHNW population is made up of women and this is the highest among any of the focus countries in the report. . Read More Exclusive: Kuliza Acquires Adepto, Social Media Marketing Platform [Updated] Started as Trolly, Adepto company pivoted to launch Crowdnub, a social marketing platform. Interestingly, Blume also made a strategic investment in Kuliza (to fund the deal?). . Read More Economics of Groupon’s Onion Deal [No Tears, All Cheers] Groupon gained 3x their monthly customer registrations at 50% of the regular digital marketing cost, just by selling onions! . Read More Indian Entrepreneurs & The Happy Confused Stage The happy confused phase comes after the entrepreneur has discovered his customer and found a product market fit. Ideally, a startup would now be ready for the growth execution phase. But in India, the happy confused phase takes over. . Read More #BlueSkyVisioning : Biometric Sensors in new iPhone Can be a Game Changer in India The fingerprint sensors on the new iPhone, can be game changing for India, which has built the world’s largest biometric database of residents. . Read More Apple Unveils Two New Phones – Colorful iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s with Fingerprint Scanner Announcing that it will ship its 700 millionth iOS device next month, Apple took the covers of the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s, a first where Apple revealed two new devices at the same time. . Read More Directi Acquired for $ 110 mn by Endurance International Endurance International, the company that owns HostGator and Domain.com is has filed for a $400 mn Nasdaq IPO and will spend $110 mn to buy Directi, the Indian domain name registrar, for $110 mn. . Read More The Ladoo Android? Sweet! We hate to be the spoilsport here, as much as we love Ladoos, and as much as we’d share the happiness with “Indian geeks” if Google indeed chooses Ladoo. But this is serious. . Read More Have a nice reading! Unsubscribe here