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Travis Kalanick Should Take Onus Of Brash Work Culture At Uber, Whether He Stays Or Steps Aside
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IT Layoffs: Do Startups Offer A Ray Of Hope To Those Retrenched? Not Really; Here’s Why
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Ola’s Aggarwal, Bhati Lowest-Paid Unicorn Founders, Yet Raked In Millions
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Ola’s Cab-Leasing Arm Swings To A Loss In FY16
Ola Fleet Technologies Pvt. Ltd, the cab-leasing arm of taxi aggregator Ola, has posted a loss of Rs 13.3 crore for FY16 compared to a profit of Rs 3.9 crore the previous year, show filings with the Registrar of Companies…
Catch Greyhound Knowledge Group at STARup 2017
Catch Sanchit Vir Gogia and Anshoo Nandwaani as Keynote Speakers at STARup 2017 on May 6 -7, 2017 at Bengaluru, India. What is STARup? STARup is a gathering of over 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, corporate representatives and government officials and influencers from…
Is This Flipkart’s Last Fundraise On Road To IPO?
India’s largest e-commerce company Flipkart’s recent fundraise of $1.4 billion (around Rs 9,000 crore), the biggest-ever in the country’s burgeoning consumer internet sector, has undoubtedly filled its coffers for now, but it also begs some important questions. Will this be…
Snapdeal Pay Hike: Face-Saving Gimmick Or Bid To Retain Talent?
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,…
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Behind The Success Of A Startup Is Passion, Not Money: 3 Business Women Decode Their Stories
For every such startup that has managed to cross over to the success corner, there have been many that have fallen by the wayside and some of these, after hitting a high note of success and popularity and instant recall…
Why Our Startups Stutter Even As Indians-Led Enterprise Firms Scorch Silicon Valley
Shutdowns. Funding crunch. Falling valuations. Firings. By pretty much any metric, India’s consumer internet companies have been going through a rough patch. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research, feels Silicon Valley is a way more mature ecosystem. “Indian…
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Cloudy And Clueless: Why SaaS Startups Are Yet To Impress In India?
Software-as-a-service companies are yet to meet their promise of profitability in India. The pricing and customer profile, which is the long tail of SMBs globally, are yet to bear fruit. All these businesses have registered offices and business in the…
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Symantec Ventures – Why It Matters To The Future Of Cyber Security Innovation
On March 2, 2017 Symantec announced the launch of Symantec Ventures - its latest effort to help startups by contributing capital, reducing expenses and accelerating time to market. Per the company, Symantec Ventures is the next step post its partnership with…
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Will Amazon’s Food Retail Foray End BigBasket’s Reign At The Top?
Seattle-based e-tailing giant Amazon.com, Inc has sought government approval to enter India’s food-retailing sector with investments totalling $515 million (Rs 3,368 crore) over the next five years. The company, which is already the number 2 player in India’s fast-growing e-commerce…
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Slack-Rival Flock Gets $25 Mn From Founder For Expansion, But Is It A Good Decision?
While the startup ecosystem is struggling to keep afloat as funds are drying up, here is another story -- of a founder who believes that his company can take on global rivals, and even go global. “The winner in the…
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How Start-Ups Die Plop!
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…
Uber Is Done Giving Lucrative Incentives To Drivers In Its Fastest Growing Market
Uber is finally opening up about the ongoing cab strikes in Indian cities and publicly addressing drivers' demands. Uber, which operates in over three dozen cities in India, is far beyond the "land-grabbing" phase, Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at…
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Indian Startups Should Focus On Sustainability, Stop Chasing Unicorn Tag
The next company that is being greenlighted to enter the prestigious Unicorn club of startups is Oyo Rooms, a SoftBank-backed budget hotel aggregator. On Oyo’s likelihood of becoming a unicorn, Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research, said…
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The Metric That Indian Startups Once Swore By Is Now Being Blamed For All The Sector’s Ills
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…
How Entrepreneurial Dreams Are Lost When Investors Take Over Startup
Fights, ousters and exits are likely to occur when the management of a company takes over from its founders. This is because founders and managements don’t often think alike. In most cases, the board is run by investors who pump…
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Here’s The Scary Truth: Almost Every Major Indian Startup Has Made The Same Mistakes As Snapdeal
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…
Uber Drivers Are Just An Unhappy Lot In This Country
Uber’s desperate attempt to turn India into its next big market isn’t chugging along smoothly. On top of regulatory hurdles that Uber has faced in nearly every region it operates in, the company is struggling in "right-sizing" its business model…
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Indian CEOs Are Far Behind The US Ones In Severance Pay Packages
Indians are way behind the USA, when it comes to severance package doled out to the CXOs. Compared to 3-5% Indians getting the severance pay as a safeguard clause in their contracts, it’s almost 60-70% in the USA. The scenario…
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Golden Parachutes Start To Land In Indian Tech CXO Contracts
Departing Infosys CFO Rajiv Bansal's hefty severance package was one of the central issues in the row that broke out between the company's founders and its board, but East is far behind the West in offering so-called golden parachutes to CXOs.…
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Is Flipkart Clawing Back In The Game Against Amazon?
In early signs of a reversal in fortunes, Flipkart has outrun rival Amazon India in gross sales in two consecutive months, after trouncing the US-based ecommerce company with its Big Billion Day sales in October. The Indian ecommerce giant recently…
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Tony Navin Quits Snapdeal In A Series Of Top-Level Exits
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…
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Cloud Failures Will Drive Enterprises To Hire Startup CTOs
Over the last 12 months, we at Greyhound Research, the Technology Transformation arm of Greyhound Knowledge Group, carried out thousands of end-user enquiries on various aspects of Cloud Computing. These enquiries have ranged from questions on benchmarking cloud providers, enterprise…
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With UberEATS, Is Uber Biting Off More Than It Can Chew?
Online food delivery is a tricky space for Indian startups, what with intense competition, wafer-thin margins and a funding drought that shows no signs of a let-up. So it was a bit of a surprise when San Francisco-based Uber, the…
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Oracle Preparing To Compete With AWS
After launching its public cloud services in September, Oracle is vying for the market dominated by Amazon Web Services – by changing its organisation culture to mimic that of AWS itself. “Digital sales will be challenging for Oracle because most…
Dance Of The Damned: Is The Paytm Founder Celebrating Too Soon?
At 43, Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s energy level is palpable, as he danced on “Malhari” the song from actor Ranveer Singh’s movie Bajirao Mastani, at the annual Paytm event. But Sharma forgot that in the era of internet, on which Paytm’s…
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Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal Losses Could Have Paid For Printing Notes After Demonetisation
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…
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