Top stories of the week : 2nd - 8th March 2014

Top stories of the week : 2nd - 8th March 2014

Sunday March 09, 2014,

3 min Read

Everything comes along with its positive and negative sides and startup funding is no exception. With all the glamour attached with the VC funding, there are few side effects of the same as well. We wrote about the same last week and saw a healthy discussion between those who believed the same and those who didn’t. HerStory celebrated the International Women’s day with this video along with the inspirational story of Bharathi and the list of women safety apps. Here’s a quick round up of top stories from the last week.

 


Top stories of the week

Startup Stories

The story behind the makers of Wello, an iPhone case that tracks your health

Bootstrapping lesson from Black&White Aventura

InvisibleBed: Targeting an INR 100 crore market with a bed that vanishes

Internet of Things: Pluggx Labs can automate a room in your house in under INR 6k

SynergE India helping parents engage with children innovatively

How two Jaipur-based brothers created profit making internet products without ever filing loss

Surfmark bid to make in-depth online research easy and holistic

IITian-IIMite bets on social shopping with Baggout

With two cost-effective robots Artrimus & G4, Robots Alive to curb import of robotic systems in India

Brother-sister team ride tandem with their dream bicycle project, Red Spokes Cycling

Baroda-based HealthRecordsIndia sets out to make a patient-centric product for Indian healthcare

MoneyHero aims to be the MakeMyTrip of financial products in Asia

Startup Village incubatee Mocioun gears to disrupt local fashion with new app

Meet Dr Akil Khan, the man who brought Tour de France to India

Army school alumni bid to ease traffic woes in Bangalore, start CyclerCity

[Bootstrap Heroes] Building an INR 1Cr startup out of Coimbatore – mypromovideos.com

Coppre brings back the shine on ancient Tambat craft

IIT Bombay and Delhi alumni come together to crack test prep space with Testbook

Need to plan that perfect short break? LifeIsOutside is your answer

 

News

More than a million dollars, getting the green signal for Laxmicoin will be exciting: Mitts Daki, founder

Payment solutions startup Citrus Pay launches mobile payment app, Citrus Cash

Flipkart achieves $1 billion GMV sales a year before projection

Venture debt finance platform IntelleGrow raises INR 28 crore from Omidyar Network among others

Mobile app developers, you are invited to Tango with Google’s 3D phone

Venture-backed Reviews42 finds its footing with mobile as a focus, reaches 3 lakh app downloads

 

Worldwide

How can working women’s lives be transformed by mobile broadband?

MoneyHero aims to be the MakeMyTrip of financial products in Asia

Mobile World Capital: Catalonia startup showcase at MWC 2014 in Barcelona

How Truecaller went on to become world’s largest verified mobile phone community

Smart Content: South Korea startup showcase at Mobile World Congress

 

Resources

Challenges of building a hardware startup team

The Side Effects of Funding

Should you take seed funding from a VC ?

12 Quotes for Instant Inspiration (Women’s day special)

Startup hiring – A candidate’s perspective

How startups can crack a $40 billion market with job-oriented MOOCs

6 skills every successful entrepreneur must learn

Why SaaS startups are on Cloud Nine