Breaking: Amazon Gets Approval to Setup its Courier Service in India

Breaking: Amazon Gets Approval to Setup its Courier Service in India

In between all those ecommerce ‘for sale’ stories, Indian government has granted Amazon approval to setup its logistics service in India (we earlier reported Amazon’s application to setup its courier service in India in the month odf December, 2011) Amazon … Read More »

From a student entrepreneur to building One97, Vijay Shekhar Sharma UnPluggd [Pluggd.in TV]

Coming from a small town and hindi-medium educational background, he faced numerous hurdles all through his college days. Despite the challenges, he managed to start his small internet-based business while in college and later moved on to forming Xs! Corporations in 1999. He later sold this to Lotus Interworks and continued working with them for a year. In December 2000, Sharma founded One97, a company which provides a platform for delivering mobile value-added services. Read More »

Cafe Coffee Day to Introduce Interactive Touchscreen Tables in their Cafes

Cafe Coffee Day to Introduce Interactive Touchscreen Tables in their Cafes

Café Coffee Day is introducing interactive touchscreen tablets in 500 cafes across the country. Called WINT, the interactive touch table is aimed at bringing more engagement among the youth community (after all, CCD calls itself “India’s largest youth aggregator”). Watch … Read More »

Deals for Startups: Get 50% Discount on Recruiterbox, A Super Cool job application tracking tool

Deals for Startups: Get 50% Discount on Recruiterbox, A Super Cool job application tracking tool

Pluggd.in’s deals for startups is back and we are glad to announce the first deal exclusively for Pluggd.in readers – 50% discount on Recruiterbox, a super cool job application tracking tool. Deal Description Hiring isn’t easy. You advertise a new … Read More »

After LetsBuy, Exclusively.in Up for Sale?

The ecommerce blood bath is ON and after Flipkart’s LetsBuy acquisition, we are hearing news of Exclusively.in looking for a buyer for the site. Today’s ToI has a brief quote from Sanjay Guleria, cofounder of Exclusively. Exclusively.in, backed by the … Read More »

Why Flipkart’s Acquisition of LetsBuy is a Great Story for the Startup Ecosystem

Why Flipkart’s Acquisition of LetsBuy is a Great Story for the Startup Ecosystem

I am still below my quota of Fuck You money. Irrespective of what the end-game is, which seldom is a stalemate, the Silicon valley eco-system is built on two simple things: 1. Every startup is a success, 2. No startup is a failure. Read More »

What does a good series AA (seed term sheet) look like?

I have several entrepreneurs asking me for templates of our “series AA” or seed series term sheet. Unfortunately, most of our deals are convertible debt (for companies based in the US, even though they have Indian entities). There is only … Read More »

Desktop Virtualization Startup, Nivio Secures $21mn from Videocon and AEC Partner

Desktop Virtualization Startup, Nivio Secures $21mn from Videocon and AEC Partner

Desktop virtualization company, Nivio has raised $21mn in Series A from Videocon and AEC Partner, a US based PE firm. The investment will support nivio’s mission to bring the magic back to computing, by expanding engineering efforts in nivio’s Palo … Read More »

Letsbuy and Flipkart – A marriage of INCONVENIENCE!!

Letsbuy and Flipkart - A marriage of INCONVENIENCE!!

My question is, how many other marriages with suicidal women will flipkart.com, or for that matter, any other healthy business Start Up manage to consummate??? Read More »