Top stories of the week : 23rd – 30th March 2014
The famous English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon had said, “Money is like muck – not good until it be spread.” It seems like investors around the globe have got that message and religiously following the same in last few days. Last week, we saw Indix raising Series A1 from Avalon Partners and Nexus Venture Partners, Germin8 raising $3 million from Kalaari Capital, Facebook acquiring Oculus and Kaushal Dugar of TeaBox sharing his story of getting funded. We wrote about why it is important to fail fast and some interesting startup stories.
Here’s the weekly roundup of the week that went by March 23- 29, 2014:
Startup Stories
Carrokay saves 30% expenditure on car maintenance with no more trips to service centres
Age is no bar to startup, ask 70-year-old Achutha Bachalli of Unilog
What makes Gaurav Munjal eager, hungry and push for more? The Flat.to Story
Venturesity – Creating talent for the startup community
Wanna customize your gadgets? Try Foxmybox
How 30 minutes shaped the startup journey of three youngsters from Kolkata: the Pracly story
Ex-Disney head starts Vox Pop Clothing to recreate magic of merchandising
CarIQ is India’s own connected car ecosystem
Making a global product from the bedroom at 18: journey of Shalin Jain, founder Happyfox
ValueTag aims to become the Google Shopping of India. Will it?
FreeKaaMaal’s journey to 200k users and 4.5 mn monthly traffic
After a multi-million dollar exit, ex-Cosmic founders start InnoRel Systems
4 million families and 25,000 teachers are using the Splash Math Education apps worldwide
Catch the election fever with Voting Line
BK Birla’s new venture AdalBdal will help you find your treasure among others’ trash
News
Big Data Analytics Company Germin8 raises $3 million from Kalaari Capital
Indix raises $9 million Series-A1 funding led by Nexus Venture Partners and Avalon Ventures
Intel acquires BASIS Science – a wearable tech startup in the healthcare and wellness space
Facebook acquires Kickstarter backed virtual reality technology startup Oculus for $2 billion
Everest Edusys (QED), a science education venture raises INR 5.7 Cr round led by Lok Capital
Noida based TLabs Accelerator launches the 5th batch with 7 startups
Powerhouse Ventures invests in Mahesh Bhupathi-backed Sports365
Resources
Real Startups please fail fast
Kick start your day with these ‘10 quick mantras of success’
How to deliver 10x customer delight
How to Make It As An Entrepreneur: Advice From Joel Comm
Why should you love your customers – Aaron Schwartz of Modify Watches explains
Advice For Founders & Startups from Krish Subramanian
How your domain name can make or break your business
Confessions of an entrepreneur: What I learnt from failures
Google’s Chromecast set to disrupt the gaming industry
Your degree may be the reason why your startup is not funded
