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Your Story Expect Paytm Mall biz to break even in a year: Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Paytm Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Monday said he expects Paytm Mall, the company's ecommerce unit, to break even in a year's time.Sharma maintained that Paytm will consider getting listed on stock exchanges only after 2021 when the financial services company starts generating cash."Paytm Mall business is close to break-even, $3 million EBIDTA loss a month and $1.2...
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Your Story 'An IPO is not the end but actually the beginning' - 50 quotes from India's No.1 startup conference, TechSparks 2019
StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week. Drawn from our special coverage of the recent flagship TechSparks 2019 conference, here are 50 gems of insight from a star-studded lineup of speakers. See also our earlier compilations of quotes from conference...
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Your Story TechSparks 2019: How focusing on people, processes, and tech can help startups scale at breakneck speed
The tech honchos of top companies came together at a panel discussion at TechSparks 2019, YourStory’s annual flagship event, to discuss how startups can scale at breakneck speed and the role technology plays.Hari Vasudev, Country Head and VP of Technology, Walmart Labs; Akash Saxena, SVP and Head of Technology, Hotstar; Dale Vaz, Head of...
- 3 hrs ago
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Your Story TechSparks 2019: Knowledge comes with experience, says Furlenco Founder
Renting, as a business model, has been gaining ground in India the last few years. Today, one can rent anything, from clothes to vehicles. However, renting furniture was unheard of in the country until Furlenco came into the picture. On Day 2 of TechSparks, YourStory’s flagship event, Ajith Mohan Karimpana, Founder and CEO of Furlenco, spoke about his journey into the...
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Your Story [Tech 30] This spacetech startup by former ISRO scientists can put small satellites in orbit within a week
Gone are the days when only government-run space agencies could send satellites and rockets to space. Today, corporates and even budding startups can and are doing so. And no, we’re not talking about Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Richard Branson.Meet Pawan Kumar Chandana (29) and Naga Bharath Daka (30), two former ISRO scientists who...
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Your Story TechSparks 2019: The growth of spacetech in India and the fuel for its future
It was over 10 years ago when Elon Musk's SpaceX broke the norm by announcing that the company will launch rockets - something only government agencies had done until then - for private. Today, the spacetech ecosystem across the globe has grown significantly into a $350 billion market, thanks to the rise in the numbers of private players. Just in the last year,...
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Your Story Kalyan Krishnamurthy's dream is to take Flipkart to 'a real exit' (and other top stories of the day)
Kalyan Krishnamurthy, the man at the helm of ecommerce giant Flipkart, maybe the Chief Executive Officer of the company, but in his mind, the key role of a CEO is being an enabler, or more precisely - the Chief Enabling Officer.At the 10th edition of YourStory's flagship event Techsparks, Kalyan revealed that the secret to being an...
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Your Story How a visit to China helped this entrepreneur shape his EV startup making LCV vehicles for last-mile logistics
If you visit Delhi, you will see electric autorickshaws plying the road. Today, there are close to a million electric vehicles (EVs) in the northern parts of India, with 6,50,000 autorickshaws having being sold in FY 2019 alone. However, these are autorickshaws that have little design elements to accommodate batteries aesthetically and...
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Your Story [Techie Tuesday] From Microsoft, Facebook, PayPal, Coinbase to Lambda - Namrata Ganatra's journey from fintech to edtech
“Be curious and don’t follow the herd. Your main regrets in life aren’t in the times that you failed to follow the herd; they are the times you failed to leave with your values,” says Namrata Ganatra, CTO, Lambda School, a San-Francisco based online coding bootcamp.Today, at Lambda, she heads all the...
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Your Story Experts discuss the enablers and gamechangers of the next frontiers of innovation
Startups and innovation are said to go hand in hand. So how do founders equip themselves with the right tools to create thriving technology companies and sustainable communities from the ground up, while also building a distinct identity for themselves?This topic was the focus of a panel discussion at the 10th edition of YourStory’s flagship event TechSparks,...
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