Muses of Murari

Insightful article on recent PE deals valuing few of Indian e-commerce start-ups dizzy highs. … Flipkart, a loss making company with FY11 topline revenues in the sub- 100 crore range, is raising a round at a $1 billion (that’s 4,500 crore) valuation. And then I hear that its main rival, the similarly-sized Infibeam is doing [...]

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Interesting garage startup. Yeah, really garage (automobile  workshop) – startup.

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Today, I had a chance to meet an entrepreneur, who until recently was my supervisor-like. He recently bootstrapped a book and toy lending venture, BrainVilla. This start up is kinda unique one, in the sense, it not only rents & sells books, which other companies like librarywala.com, flipkart.com does, but also rents toys. Interestingly, he [...]

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