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Jasper Infotech Pvt. Ltd, which runs online marketplace Snapdeal, is reportedly giving out pay hikes of up to 15% to its employees even as talks of its merger with India’s biggest e-commerce company Flipkart are fast progressing. Sanchit Vir Gogia,…

How Start-Ups Die Plop!

by Connect@GreyhoundG.comMarch 14, 2017Leave a comment

Start-ups, the playfield of the young and the restless, have had a hard reality check. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Founder & CEO, Greyhound Knowledge Group, calls 2016 “a year of anxiety” for Indian start-ups, with “a much-needed market correction” that saw…

The Metric That Indian Startups Once Swore By Is Now Being Blamed For All The Sector’s Ills

by Connect@GreyhoundG.comFebruary 28, 2017June 8, 2017Leave a comment

Till a few years ago, profitability received the step-child treatment from Indian e-commerce entrepreneurs. “While startups did extremely well by using their public relations muscle to ensure that GMV becomes the industry’s darling, it’s no more than a cover up…

Here’s The Scary Truth: Almost Every Major Indian Startup Has Made The Same Mistakes As Snapdeal

by Connect@GreyhoundG.comFebruary 26, 2017June 8, 2017Leave a comment

India’s bustling startup ecosystem is in a state of hysteria as e-commerce major Snapdeal implodes. “I believe other startups will follow suit and by March more layoffs will be announced in other firms. There isn’t any choice. Companies will have…

Are Job Cuts At Snapdeal A Precursor To Its Merger With Alibaba And Paytm?

by Connect@GreyhoundG.comFebruary 25, 2017June 8, 2017Leave a comment

If Snapdeal follows the rule of the game, the company would deny any kind of merger talks with rival Paytm, or with investor Alibaba, unless a deal is concluded, at least verbally. “It will offer a new lease of life…

India’s 3rd Biggest E-Commerce Firm Snapdeal Is Cutting 600 Jobs, And There Could Be More To Come

by Connect@GreyhoundG.comFebruary 23, 2017June 8, 2017Leave a comment

The e-commerce industry in India has received another blow. On Wednesday, India’s third biggest e-commerce firm Snapdeal announced that it will be laying off employees. Though the company refrained from giving out exact numbers of people to be given the…

Tony Navin Quits Snapdeal In A Series Of Top-Level Exits

by Connect@GreyhoundG.comFebruary 10, 2017June 8, 2017Leave a comment

Top-level exits continue at Snapdeal, India’s third largest e-commerce company, as Tony Navin, head of partnerships and strategic investments, decided to move on after a seven-year stint. Navin’s exit comes in quick succession of two other bigwigs -- Abhishek Kumar…

Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal Losses Could Have Paid For Printing Notes After Demonetisation

by Connect@GreyhoundG.comJanuary 20, 2017June 8, 2017Leave a comment

Funded by foreign investors and parent companies, India’s leading e-commerce firms -- Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal -- have increased its losses by 51% in just one year to Rs 11,754 crore, to fund growth and dole out discounts to gain…

Losses of Flipkart, Amazon & Snapdeal would have allowed ISRO to go to Mars 24 times

by Connect@GreyhoundG.comJanuary 20, 2017June 8, 2017Leave a comment

At Rs 11, 754 crore, the combine losses of ecommerce majors Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal is almost equal to the annual budget of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). "To be able to curtail losses, it is critical for these…

From $15.5 Billion To $5.5 Billion: It’s The Year Of Devaluations But Flipkart’s Not Losing Sleep

by Connect@GreyhoundG.comDecember 1, 2016June 9, 2017Leave a comment

India’s most valued internet company has been devalued—yet again. In one of the most drastic markdowns for Flipkart so far, one of its investors, a mutual fund managed by Morgan Stanley, slashed the Bengaluru-based e-commerce major’s value to just $5.54…

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