Education, AI, efficiency: Test your business creativity with Edition 229 of our weekly quiz!
This insightful feature from YourStory tests and strengthens your business acumen! Here are 5 questions to kick off this 229th quiz. Ready?
This insightful feature from YourStory tests and strengthens your business acumen! Here are 5 questions to kick off this 229th quiz. Ready?
Lateral Sparks, the weekly quiz from YourStory, tests your domain knowledge, business acumen, and lateral thinking skills (see the previous edition here). In this 229th edition of the quiz, we present issues tackled by real-life entrepreneurs in their startup journeys.
What would you do if you were in their shoes? At the end of the quiz, you will find out what the entrepreneurs and innovators themselves actually did. Would you do things differently?
Check out YourStory’s Book Review section as well, with takeaways from over 355 titles on creativity and entrepreneurship, and our weekend PhotoSparks section on creativity in the arts.
Q1: Logistics
Customers expect faster deliveries in ecommerce, but speed for every single order comes at a financial cost at scale. How can logistics be made more effective and efficient in this space?
Q2: Education system
The education system in India remains focused on traditional rote learning, but this method is not very effective in the face of rapid global changes. What’s a more effective approach in education?
Q3: Agriculture data
The agriculture sector has plentiful data thanks to sensors and apps, but much of it is fragmented and complex at the level of the field. How can this data be made more usable?
Q4: Compatibility beyond swipes
Many dating platforms are based on maximising attention and app engagement, and not really on deeper compatibility between potential matches. What’s a better way to foster meaningful connections here?
Q5: Enterprise services
Many enterprises struggle with a fragmented web of vendors for services such as design, engineering, data, and AI. This leads to inconsistent product quality and delayed execution. How can this problem be fixed?
Answers!
Congratulations on having come this far! But there’s more to come – answers to these five questions (below), as well as links to articles with more details on the entrepreneurs’ solutions. Happy reading, happy learning – and happy creating!
A1: Logistics
Founded by Kapil Makhija and Saurabh Kumar Choudhary, Unicommerce eSolutions is a shipping and logistics platform for ecommerce businesses and logistics providers. Its AI-powered decisioning engine goes beyond courier choices to deliver decision-making intelligence for every shipment, at scale and in real time.
“The next decade will belong to brands that treat logistics as a strategic growth lever, not just a backend function,” Makhija explains. Read more here about how the startup has achieved adjusted EBITDA breakeven, and crossed monthly shipments of one million.
A2: Education system
Founded by Lina Ashar and Sudip Saha, Dreamtime Learning is challenging the traditional K-12 learning system by focusing more on curiosity-led learning than rote learning. As knowledge and skills become less stable in terms of value, curiosity for learning will define future relevance.
As a 2.5-year-old organisation, the startup generated about Rs 10 crore in revenue last year and aims to hit Rs 20 crore in FY27. Read more here about its microschools, 2,000-strong online base, and global expansion plans.
A3: Agriculture data
Founded by Vinay Nair and Richa Nair, KhetiBuddy is a multi-modular SaaS platform built for mid to large-sized farm businesses. It brings scattered farm data into a single, usable system,
The platform translates on-ground realities into clear, actionable insights across crops, supply chains, costs, and sustainability goals, leading to higher crop yields and improved forecasting. Read more here about how some of its customers have reduced compliance time by 30-40%, replacing manual documentation with automated reporting.
A4: Compatibility beyond swipes
Founded by Vidya Madhavan and Abhinav Anurag, Schmooze, is a meme-based dating and networking app. It focuses not on swipes but on personality, context and humour.
The aim is to move beyond surface-level matching, towards deeper compatibility and more intentional interactions. Read more here about how memes can act as a proxy for personality, and how Schmooze has crossed five million users with its meme-driven model.
A5: Enterprise services
Founded by Rahu Jain, Sandip Baradiya, Mohammed Sunasra, and Tapan Vaghela, Pixeldust Technologies gives enterprises a single transformation partner rather than a chain of handoffs. Clients get an integrated capability across design, data engineering and analytics, leading to clarity and disciplined delivery.
The startup helps deliver value by combining AI with strong data foundations and thoughtful product design. Read more here about its AI-driven intelligent automation platform built on cloud-native architecture, and how it is making an ARR of over $1.5 million.
YourStory has also published the pocketbook ‘Proverbs and Quotes for Entrepreneurs: A World of Inspiration for Startups’ as a creative and motivational guide for innovators.