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Profitlessness And The New Trade-Offs
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Swiggy Is Raising $1 Billion In The Largest Ever Funding Round By An Indian Food-Tech Startup
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Why Startups Fail Even When They Don’t Face A Cash Crunch
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Why Flipkart Needs More Than SoftBank To Take On Amazon
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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…
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…
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…
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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SoftBank’s Son Cedes to Murdoch as Top India Home Portals Merge
Indian real-estate websites PropTiger.com and Housing.com are merging to create the country’s top portal for residential listings and property services, as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. boosts its investment in the growing sector while Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group Corp. scales back.…
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Change At Flipkart To Set Precedence For Global Investors In India
Below are some of the latest tweets on this topic. Read a more updated thread by clicking on any of the tweets from below. https://twitter.com/s_v_g/status/818641623621869569 https://twitter.com/s_v_g/status/818641826546520064 https://twitter.com/s_v_g/status/818642669559693313 https://twitter.com/s_v_g/status/818644002027122689 https://twitter.com/s_v_g/status/818654417964568578 https://twitter.com/anshoo_n/status/818678717270478848
Impact Of Flipkart’s Devaluation On Indian Startups: Insights By Greyhound Research On CNBC TV18
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“Snapdeal is well-positioned to turn profitable in the next 2-3 years”- Kunal Bahl, CEO
Snapdeal recently expanded their e-commerce marketplace to include more service offerings through a ‘one-of-a-kind partnership’ with Zomato, Cleartrip, UrbanClap, and redBus. Now in a recent interview with Livemint, Kunal Bahl, CEO, Snapdeal, said that the company is now focusing on…
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Snapdeal May Die A Slow And Painful Death
On June 8, American e-commerce major Amazon announced an additional $3-billion investment in India, making clear its intention to win in the country. This throws up a massive challenge for all homegrown e-commerce companies, among which Snapdeal could be hurt the…
Investors Keep A Close Watch As Mu Sigma Founder-couple Splits
Even as investors at Mu Sigma keep a close watch on the recent developments within the company, there is a possibility of bringing in professional mangers at the helm of affairs. “In all likelihood, an external professional management will be…
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The Life Of A Startup After A Devaluation
India’s biggest technology startups are finally getting a taste of devaluation. For the last couple of years, India was flooded with venture capital money, which helped several tech companies become unicorns—startups valued at over $1 billion. But now, some of…
Starting Trouble: A Dull Investment Climate For Start-ups
Amidst the growing cacophony of e-commerce start-ups announcing plans to raise capital, what goes unnoticed is the fate of many others that struggle to mop up funding after the initial seed round. The past 6-8 months have witnessed a complete…
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Funds In The Driver’s Seat
Garnering funds is not difficult for Indian companies. Retaining ownership of companies is. Private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds are only too happy to come on board, but they like to secure their exit route as they invest.…
Funds In The Driver’s Seat
Garnering funds is not difficult for Indian companies. Retaining ownership of companies is. Private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds are only too happy to come on board, but they like to secure their exit route as they invest.…
Funds In The Driver’s Seat @BWorldOnline
Garnering funds is not difficult for Indian companies. Retaining ownership of companies is. Private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds are only too happy to come on board, but they like to secure their exit route as they invest.…
Startups Like India’s Money But Want More Government Action
Technology startups in India are getting a financial boost from the government, but entrepreneurs say that more could be done to support growth in the industry. Sanchit Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO at Greyhound Research, called the government's planned tax…
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Ola’s Buy Signals Early Shakeout In The Taxi Segment
The country’s organised taxi industry has shown first signs of consolidation at a time when a majority of companies in the segment are losing money. According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research, this clearly points to…
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Ola’s Buy Signals Early Shakeout In The Taxi Segment
The country’s organised taxi industry has shown first signs of consolidation at a time when a majority of companies in the segment are losing money. According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO, Greyhound Research, this clearly points to…
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Infy To Buy Panaya For $200M
Infosys will acquire US-based automation technology company Panaya for $200 million (over Rs 1,200 crore). The all-cash deal is the second-largest acquisition for the Bangalore-based firm, after Swiss consulting company Lodestone, which it bought for about $350 million (Rs 1,932 crore)…
Ola Gets Second Round Of Funding From Matrix Partners
Olacabs, India’s largest aggregator of car rentals and cab services, has received second round of financing from private equity firm Matrix Partners India and existing investor Tiger Global Management. While the company did not divulge the amount of funding, industry sources…
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Greyhound Knowledge Group at the Samsung Enterprise Solutions Expo 2013
What is the event all about? Our CEO, Sanchit Vir Gogia, will be a part of the esteemed panel at ‘The CXO Lounge’ of Samsung Enterprise Solutions Expo 2013, which…
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