Startup

Peak day sales set to top 4.5 mn, double of non-sale day: Ecom Express

The average order size daily would be 3.5-3.8 million throughout the 45 day sale period that began this week

Start, Up and Away: Khushboo and Piyush Jain, the entrepreneur couple behind crowdfunding website ImpactGuru.com

Moneycontrol’s Anchal Pathak catches up with the Jains to understand the future of crowdfunding in India.

Start, Up and Away: Archana Walavalkar and Dhimaan Shah, the personal stylists for all Indians

Moneycontrol’s Anchal Pathak catches up with the founders of StyleCracker and asks them what it takes to make it big in the Indian fashion industry.

Start, Up and Away: A tea-time conversation with Chai Point’s Amuleek Bijral

Moneycontrol’s Anchal Pathak catches up with the chai-preneur about life, tea-time snacks and the reason why India is crazy about chai

Start, Up and Away | Anand Jain, the man whose mobile marketing platform can help boost your business

CleverTap founder Anand Jain talks to Moneycontrol's Anchal Pathak about how the mobile marketing platform helps growth teams from various brands understand their audiences

Start, Up and Away | Meet Harsh Jain, the man who brought fantasy sports to India

The founder of fantasy sports platform Dream11 talks to Moneycontrol’s Anchal Pathak about setting up a business in a nascent industry

Start, Up and Away | Vishal Gondal, the serial entrepreneur

Moneycontrol’s Anchal Pathak talks to GOQii founder Vishal Gondal about the year of FitTech in India

Start, Up and Away | The batman of cookies, Neha Arya Sethi

Moneycontrol’s Anchal Pathak talks to cookie-preneur Neha Arya Sethi about how a she started off a her confectionary chain by selling cookies from the back of a Nano.

EXCLUSIVE|Govt keen on 49% FDI in B2C e-commerce; draft proposal being discussed with industry today

The idea is to promote the sale of domestically produced goods through online platforms by allowing limited inventory in B2C online retail firms such as Flipkart, Snapdeal and Paytm Mall

Start, Up and Away | How Chef Pooja Dhingra brought the taste of Paris to India: Part 2

Moneycontrol’s Anchal Pathak talks to the spunky chef and entrepreneur about the triumphs and tribulations of being a food-preneur in India

Ed-tech startup Eruditus raises Rs 16cr venture debt from InnoVen Capital

Eruditus currently offers 28 courses and plans to increase this number to 52 by next year

Start, Up and Away: How Raw Pressery's Anuj Rakyan turned his passion into a business venture (Part 2)

Moneycontrol’s Anchal Pathak talks to the founder about why passion is the key to success

Start, Up and Away: Raw Pressery’s Anuj Rakyan on turning his passion into a flourishing business - Part 1

Moneycontrol’s Anchal Pathak talks to the founder about why passion is the key to success

Fake Paytm app used to con shopkeepers in Hyderabad

After shopping, the pranksters pretend to be using the Paytm app on their phones, they enter the details in the prank version, which shows a message mimicking the original saying that the payment has been made.

Myntra EORS: Sales jump 47% YoY on 2.8 million orders

Two million people shopped for 9 million products across Myntra and Jabong, making it the largest fashion and lifestyle sale in the country.

Goibibo to phase out current customer rewards program GoContacts

In an email send to its customers on Monday, the company said post-July 1st, the customers will no longer be earning Rs 50 reward amount

Aavishkaar and Asha Impact invest Rs 44 cr in Let's Recycle

It currently has a capacity of processing 100 tonnes of waste per day in Ahmedabad and will be extending its geographical presence to new cities with the fundraise

Start, Up and Away | Story of a man in woman’s world

Moneycontrol's Anchal Pathak talks to the founder of lingerie retail brand PrettySecrets about his business, life and some hacks for budding entrepreneurs.

To tackle traffic congestion, Ola launches free rides for a week in seven cities

The cities which come under this offer include Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata

Cash Suvidha aims to disburse loans worth Rs 400 crore to borrowers in FY 18-19

It has partnered with rural digitisation and commerce optimisation platform StoreKing to disburse loans worth USD 5-6 million in rural areas

CoLive launches FRAME - a facial recognition software for enhanced security

The FRAME feature will be operational at 20 select prime properties managed by CoLive before it is rolled out in all its properties

SoftBank considering Ola-Uber merger in India: Sources

Sources from SoftBank and Ola say the companies are pursuing Uber India for a merger. Uber India denied the talks.

Cash Suvidha raises $1 million in pre-series A funding

The funds will be used to increase the loan books of the company and to further strengthen its technological infrastructure

Amazon launches music streaming service in India

Amazon Prime Music will be available at no extra cost to members of Prime, the world's largest online retailer's customer loyalty plan that costs an annual 999 rupees ($15.30) and offers faster deliveries, access to early deals and a subscription to its video streaming service.