Monthly Archives: October 2009

Startup Saturday: Flipkart & Online Retail

By Tapas | Published: October 10, 2009

The troops just came home — Shivku and Binny and Mekin and Abhishek and Vishal and Ashwin and Vijay.
For those not in the know, they spent this morning at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore for a Startup Saturday Showcase. Given that “Online Retail” was the agenda, the presentation time was shared between Flipkart.com and Picsquare.com (an Infibeam [...]

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Decoding the Promo Code

By Tapas | Published: October 7, 2009

Ok, here’s why we have the friendly little box that asks you if you have a Flipkart Promotional Code:
a> It’s been there since the first time we had offers through some campaign or the other, co-branded ones, usually. Some of those codes are still valid, which is why we haven’t “disabled” the promo code box.
b> [...]

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With Every Mistake We Must Surely Be Learning

By Tapas | Published: October 5, 2009

via Varsha181

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Emails That Deserve A Mention - 2

By Tapas | Published: October 3, 2009

This mail’s pretty old, 3 weeks or so — just that I had forgotten to mention it then.
From Arun:
You know honey, you owe me some money,
i want to see it, each and every penny,
we all like flipku, why dont you like us,
please take the book वापुस, Where art thou Tapas?
From Me:
It is truly fecund, we’ve [...]

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