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The weekly Tech update FCC moves closer to dismantling net neutrality – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is poised to take the first formal step toward dismantling Obama-era net neutrality rules, which require internet service providers to treat all web traffic equally. Lobbyists and politicians on both sides of issue […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 21st May


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A recent article in Economic times describes a change in policy “Companies will have to declare job creation estimates to avail benefits under Startup India” Companies eyeing benefits under the Startup India programme (link) will soon have to declare upfront how many jobs they will create in order to qualify […]

Startup India: No free lunch for Startups – Generate jobs ...


Here’s the news roundup of world of Digital Startups from the past week. Why My Startup Scrapped Its Perfectly Successful Business Model – One CEO explains why the best time to change everything is when it’s working out great. This spring, Tesla pulled ahead of General Motors to become the […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 14th May



Roadside poster from the Indian hi-tech city of Bangalore … A picture is worth a thousand words, and perhaps a sign of times: Money chasing ideas !   Text reads VC For STARTUPS Looking for startups with great vanity metrics and excellent knowledge of buzzwords. Preferably fintech, blockchain or enterprise. […]

Sign of Indian Digital Startup bubble ready to bust? !


Incubators, accelerators grow 40% in 2016, aiding start-up landscape: Nasscom – Incubators and accelerators continue to play an important role in the growth of the Indian start-up ecosystem. The number of incubators and accelerators have grown by 40%,with more than 40 new ones added in 2016, according to a new […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 7th May


We continually review startups, both successful ones and some that fail. In this section, we present a viewpoint on startup failures and how we can learn from their missteps.   “It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.”                                                -Warren Buffet   Failure […]

Article: Why do Startups fail?



Time magazine has an interesting feature highlighting “Successful Technology Failures of All time” This list, ranked in order of influence, was extensively debated by TIME’s technology team. In Silicon Valley “failing fast” is heralded as a virtue and, sometimes, even failing slowly can have unforeseeable benefits. The list has several […]

The 20 Most Successful Technology Failures of All Time – ...


The media and digerati are debating the merits and pitfalls of the case against the CEO of the online homestay and alternate-stay aggregator Stayzilla that declared it was shutting down. The story began to unfold on Feb 23 2017 when the CEO Yogendra (Yogi) Vasupal took to Medium to blog […]

Stayzilla Saga: What’s the big deal about the CEO of ...


Here is a recent question that came to our editor: What is your liability if your start fails after raising a venture capital fund? Empirical data on startups indicate that a large percentage (between 70 to 90% ) of startups are doomed to fail. Some founders realize that they are […]

Advice: What is your liability if your startup fails after ...



Empirical  data on startups indicate that a large percentage (between 70 to 90% ) of startups are doomed to fail. Some founders realize that they are captaining a sinking ship and bail out early and gracefully, others decide to do a Titanic by failing dramatically. Many others, however continue on […]

When Startups fail: Stayzilla Shuts Down