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How Cult is targeting the $1 billion fitness market without machines and...
We have all been there! Gyms that promise you great bodies after you pay them in advance. The gym chain hopes that you may lose interest and not come back. This model has made more people unfit and...
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Bollywood to Boston: How BollyX is making America more fit, confident, and...
Two days ago, I took my soft, scholarly Chinese roommate to a dance studio near our house in Boston for her first-ever Bollywood experience- a dance fitness class called BollyX® that claims to burn...
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On track to distribute Rs 2,000cr worth of loans, Finance Buddha might lend...
It’s no secret that fintech companies in India are having a ball of a time. In the past two years, there has been more than a billion dollars, spread across 93 deals, invested in these ventures....
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How Archana Ganapathy Poonacha is simplifying home décor with PinkApple Studios
The quest to find that perfect décor for your dream home seems never ending, doesn’t it? And the presence of multiple brands is only making things more difficult. To address interior design woes –...
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[Startup of the day] How GrocerMax figures out the right unit economics in...
Expansion may be one of the top priorities for venture-funded startups across business categories, but in the case of exploring scale, it isn’t necessarily a good idea. Food tech and hyperlocal...
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How Happy Cook is getting busy youth into the kitchen
There are over 30 million graduates who have passed out over the last six years, of which 60 percent leave their hometowns to work in urban centres. While most of these kids eat outside, there are...
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[Startup of the day] Two geeky engineers from the USA make money by helping...
In May 2014 Manish Mittal was in India on holiday, and had booked a cab to ferry his family across Rajasthan. But the holiday turned out to be like one of those Hollywood movies that portray an India...
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This café in Kolkata works as a restaurant-school to train the...
“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” – Warren Buffet In crisp white aprons and sporting the manners of the...
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Aham Bhumika, a school which teaches a better lifestyle
There’s a new kind of school lurking in the horizon, one that gives more importance to practice than theory. The women and children of the villages of Borda and Mahabadia at the outskirts of Bhopal...
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Empowering The Underprivileged Through Crocheting: Zehra Picturewalla’s Story
They say it only takes a vision and the will to act on that vision to make a difference in this world. And this is precisely what Zehra Picturewala, a young determined girl from a conservative Muslim...
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Anjana Reddy goes all WROGN with Virat Kohli to pocket Rs 100 crore
They say that breaking away from legacy is the hardest thing to do for the fourth generation individual in a business family. These individuals cannot survive in an environment governed by age-old...
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Edtech startup Millionlights aims to bring the best to millions of...
Three years ago, serial entrepreneur Akshat Srivastava got an opportunity to work with the Ministry of Human Resource Development. While working with the Ministry, he realised how deplorable the...
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How Jaipur-based enTRIPreneur is using travel to connect entrepreneurs from...
With networking plays a huge role in clinching deals, getting investments, finding mentors and making contacts, it is not uncommon for entrepreneurs to meet and talk to one another at conferences,...
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[Startup of the day] IIT-IIM and XLRI alumni build Darwinbox for the...
About 18 months ago, two IIT-IIM alumni and an XLRI alumnus got together after a four-year stint in the corporate world to make a dent in the human resource software product universe. While Jayant...
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QuestionPro delivers the answers to all your questionnaires
What is a survey? According to a definition in the Oxford dictionary, it is to investigate opinions or experiences of (a group of people) by asking them questions. And why is it important? Because it...
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Paytm to build payment network with Aadhar-based eKYC
Mobile payment and commerce platform Paytm has introduced Aadhaar-based eKYC (E-Know Your Customer) to make the customer verification process convenient, paperless, and real-time. “We are building...
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Rajan Anandan-backed Smytten aims to transform the $225mn luxury brand market...
Twenty-five-year-old Shilpa Suresh loves brands, especially high-end ones, but she knows that her job as a client servicing executive at an advertising agency cannot pay for her want. Unavailability...
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[Startup of the day] Waging a war against cash, ScrewCash aims to be a super...
It was 2014 and Sarabjot Singh had just completed his MBA to join a well cushioned job at American Express. Joining as a risk manager, Sarabjot’s job was to manage credit risk for the market and focus...
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Husband-wife duo’s Artisera aims to make ‘artistic luxury’ accessible online
With the luxury market set to expand in India at an annual growth rate of approx 25 percent, it is sunshine time for startups in this space. According to an Assocham study released at the beginning of...
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Is it time to bid adieu to saree blouse tailoring woes? House of Blouse says yes
Ask women across India to recommend a tailor who can stitch that perfect saree blouse and you are most likely to hear them say they are still looking for one. Even after seven years in Bengaluru, my...
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