- Cryptocurrency This Week: Indian Govt. May Regulate Bitcoin This Fiscal Year-End And More After having a monumental rise to $20K, Bitcoin’s honeymoon seems to be over. The dark knight is back to $9K. While some analysts term it further signs of ‘Bitcoin bubble’ getting burst some count it as the aftermath of Coincheck heist. Whatever be the reason, Bitcoin market value has gone down by $80 Bn in […]
- Crowdfire Founders To Launch Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency Exchange WazirX Nischal Shetty, co-founder of Crowdfire, a social media management app for Twitter and Instagram, has announced plans to launch a new Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange WazirX. The platform will be launched in March. As per a Medium post by Nischal, WazirX will be built as India’s most trusted bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange. On how he […]
- Updated: Exclusive: Marriage Of Inconvenience: Quikr Fires More Than 150 CommonFloor Employees Post Acquisition More than 150 employees of CommonFloor have been asked to leave the company by Quikr after the latter bought out the former, this January. Four people aware of the development said employees are getting termination notices from the human resources department. Online classifieds firm Quikr had celebrated the new year putting an end to long drawn […]
- The Bootstrapper’s Dilemma You have an idea, and you start up. Then you quit your job, and pursue it full-time. What follows next is the quintessential dilemma of a startup founder — “Should I raise money now?” Unless you have a machine that mints money, you will find yourself wondering about it in your startup journey. In mine, I reached […]
- Eight Sexy Indian Startup Offices That’ll Make You Quit Your Job Today, every other working professional is wondering whether to work at a startup or take a corporate job. While many reasons have been devised to solve this dilemma, one that remains unbeatable is the peculiar culture of startup offices – casual dress codes, flexible timings and the awesome office spaces. Following up to our previous […]
- How Crowdfire Discovered That Workcation Actually Works Crowdfire’s journey as a product had reached a crossroad where we had two choices lying in front of us. It was difficult to choose the right one — that choice that would be the best for our users. We could not afford to make a decision based on gut feeling alone; there had to be thorough research […]
- Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [9 – 14 March] The jigsaw of ecommerce marketplace continues to rule the funding charts. This time Snapdeal founded by Wharton Business School Alumnus is in talks with Alibaba for raising $1 Bn funding. The online marketplace is aiming at a valuation of at least $5 Bn with this raise. This week, 16 Startups raised about $50 Mn in funding […]
- After Bootstrapping For 5 Years, With 10 Mn Users In Its Kitty, Crowdfire Just Raised $2.5 Mn From Kalaari Capital Mumbai-based startup Crowdfire, a social media management app for Twitter and Instagram previously known as Justunfollow, has raised $2.5 Mn from Kalaari Capital in its Series A funding round. The brainchild of Nischal, Sameer Mhatre, Siddharth Menon, and Anirudh Khusape, JustUnfollow was founded Feb 2010 and was rebranded to Crowdfire last month. Crowdfire became popular for helping people spot […]