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The Bubble Burst Begins – Million Dollar Funded Taggle Shuts Shop [Tells The Harsh Truth]

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VC are leaving for holidays and it marks the end of this phenomenal year of ecommerce funding. Everybody but the investors made money in the blood bath lead by marketing spends. People did warn about a bubble in the making … Read More »

daily deal, indian ecommerce market, ShortCircuit, taggle

27 Aug

Is there anything called ‘Art of Dying’? Techtribe goes off the web, Media sections lives on

By sinha 5 Comments

After ‘Art of Start’, is there anything called ‘Art of Dying’ in Entrepreneurial world? Read More »

deadpool, ShortCircuit, techtribe

11 Dec

Video Startup TinselVision out of sight – shuts shop

By sinha 3 Comments

Internet video startup, TinselVision has closed it’s operations and the site now throws 403 error. Tinselvision closed $6mn last year and their video-on-demand service was targeted towards South Asian communities in the US, UK and Canada. They had struck online … Read More »

ShortCircuit, triedpool

10 Dec

TripMela shuts shop – on sale @ eBay

By sinha 1 Comment

Travel lead generator, TripMela has decided to shut down their operations and the site is on sale @ eBay.in Tripmela’s business model revolved around lead generation (via travel newsletters) and has an opt-in email database of 80,000 subscribers. We’ve done … Read More »

ShortCircuit, tripmela

19 Nov

Ninemotion, Online SMB Exchange Marketplace shuts down – Founders share insights/experience.

By sinha 12 Comments

Ninemotion (read our review), Bangalore based online marketplace/exchange for SMBs has decided to shut down it’s service. Deepak Vinchhi, co-founder of ninemotion shares his insights/experiences: “The only real failure in life is the failure to try.” nineMotion Story, The End, … Read More »

entrepreneurial tales, ShortCircuit, triedpool

19 Nov

Zapak to shut down it’s Bangalore Office?

By sinha 21 Comments

Zapak has decided to shut down it’s Bangalore office and has fired close to 40 employees (from confirmed sources) Few employees have been asked to relocate to Mumbai or..leave and confirmed sources tell us that they are planning to layoff … Read More »

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07 Nov

TriedPool..not DeadPool

By sinha 13 Comments

Over the last few days, you must have noticed few posts on shutting down of few Indian startups – while it disturbs some of you, the reality is that it’s a representation of market dynamics. “It is better to have … Read More »

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06 Nov

MyDuniya shuts down

By sinha 9 Comments

SMS service startup, MyDuniya (review) has decided to shut down the service. In a letter (sent a month back) to it’s users, the startup mentioned current business condition as the sole reason behind the decision to shut down. I am … Read More »

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20 Oct

Antya nearing Deadpool? Founders move on

By sinha 2 Comments

Antya, (profiled earlier) the Indian version of Mahalo is almost nearing deadpool (or shortcircuit, as we call it). Founders (earlier used to work for ibibo) have moved on: Sunny Saurabh has joined MySpace as Product Manager (linkedin) Bharanidharan has

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