US-based Amazon and Uber kept a conspicuous silence on Thursday after the poster boys of Indian Internet entrepreneurship — Flipkart Chairman Sachin Bansal and Ola Chief Executive Officer Bhavish Aggarwal — joined forces to make a strong pitch for policies that will favour homegrown companies. So…
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Indian start-ups call for a level playing field against global peers: Flipkart co-founder
Bengaluru: India needs to create a level-playing field for start-ups to compete effectively against global companies with significantly larger capital, said Sachin Bansal, Co-Founder Flipkart Ltd, and Bhavish Aggarwal, Co-Founder Ola (run by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd). “There’s a fair way to comp…
‘We learnt about app metrics from start-ups we invested in’, say Flipkart Founders
One start-up as the most external funding, the other has been bootstrapping for 20 years. Both Flipkart Founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, and Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu have started giving back, investing time and money in other startups. Flipkart’s billionaire Founders Sachin Bansal…
‘Silicon Valley Spirit’ guides policy-makers, Start-Ups look for a deal
Start-ups have little doubt that this Union Budget will deliver. But they are keeping their fingers crossed for much more; they hope their freedom is not curtailed by reams of policy. Setting the tone, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had decisively looked at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at Vigyan B…