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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Startup Saturday: Flipkart & Online Retail
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Decoding the Promo Code
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> [...]
Startups Are Like Rockbands
WARNING: Analogy coming up. If you don’t like analogies, hit the back button, now.
In my skewed worldview, here’s why I think startups are like rockbands.
They both essentially start of with one unit (could be one founder, two founders with a single goal etc.) I see this as a lone singer, either singing acapella or [...]