In a bid to reinvent Australia’s finance sector, startup incubator Pollenizer is launching a program that will pay founders $6000 a month to build new fintech solutions. The joint initiative with Sydney-founded global lending platform Pepper Money will take selected participants through a 12-week incubator. “The aim of the program […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
San Francisco startup Stripe has raised new financing that values the startup at about $9 billion, cementing its status as a major company in the crowded digital payments space and heralding a possible initial public offering. CapitalG, the late-stage investment arm of Mountain View’s Alphabet, and venture capital firm General […]
Digital payments startup Stripe valued at $9 billion
The digital era has rattled multiple industries and signs indicate that this is just the beginning. Disruption is the order of the day as startups offer increased convenience to customers at lower costs, facilitated by the integration of ubiquitous high-speed mobile connectivity, the Internet of Everything and advanced analytics. The […]
Operating and innovating at the speed of startups
Mohan K, Editor @ MyDigitalStartup.net Check out the recent responses to questions on Startups: How did Flipkart become so popular even when it was just a copy of Amazon? Good question. Firstly, one cannot say “Flipkart was just a copy of Amazon” since every eCommerce venture is similar , but […]
Startup Q&A for week of 27th Nov
How a Digital Tool for Grandma Turned Into a Startup – Three years ago, Priscilla Elora Sharuk was trying to help her grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s disease, deal with an everyday task that had become frustratingly difficult: remembering passwords for websites and software. Ms. Sharuk, an architect, told her computer-engineer […]
News 27 Nov 2016
Snapchat’s Spectacles are now on sale in New York. Image: ubergizmo.com The sunglass-mounted camera went was announced on Monday as the newest location for one of Snap’s quirky vending machines – still the only way you can officially buy the wearable tech. The latest vending machine is located inside a […]
Snapchat’s Spectacles are now on sale in New York City
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s Twitter feed has come alive these past two weeks. From a roadside egg-seller in Bhopal to a soda hawker in Bangalore, the founder of Paytm has posted snapshots of the unusual array of merchants who ply the teeming streets of India — and are now turning to […]
India’s Cash Ban Is the Best Thing to Happen to ...
Your budget and resources may be a bit tight as you launch your IT company. Among hiring staff, training, and setting up vendor relationships, your marketing funds could be minimal or nonexistent. That’s a problem. You may offer best-of-breed turnkey solutions — but clients aren’t going to ask for your […]
Digital Marketing tips for Startups
The Startup Nation Israel has just about eight million people (less than 0.1% of the world’s population) and resonates today as one of the most vibrant tech startup cluster, attracting more venture capital per inhabitant than anyone else in the world. The Israeli startup ecosystem raised as much as $3.6 […]
Israel The Startup Nation
Right now there’s a multi-million-dollar con being played on employees, investors and founders of startup companies — and they don’t even realize it. In a dying media world where quality coverage has become invaluable to a rising startup, public relations agencies charge startups anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000+ per month […]