I reported on tech start-ups and trends in technology for the financial publication Mint. My areas of interest include technology, literature and Asian pop-culture.
How one of the most popular e-book management softwares, calibre, came to be
Calibre is a comprehensive free and open-source tool that is used to manage your e-library, convert books to multiple formats, and news feeds to books...
ShareChat finds its niche with local languages
Bengaluru: At 9pm, on 31 December 2016, as their systems were flailing and their users were having a hard time, the founders of social app ShareChat were feeling strangely validated. More than 700,000 Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Malayalam speakers had turned to the platform to wish each other and look for greetings and GIFs to wish friends and family happy new year. The traffic was so heavy the system crashed.
“We were sitting on half a million (daily) active users the day b...
How Byju’s built its brand
Bengaluru: Byju Raveendran says he builds fan bases—a strange thing to say for someone who is founder and chief executive officer of an education start-up.
“I believe when you take sessions in auditoriums, you’re creating a kind of fan following. You can’t do a math class in a stadium. It has to be a math performance,” says Raveendran, 36.
His performances have served him exceedingly well. His company Byju’s, run by Think and Learn Pvt. Ltd, is India’s best-funded education start-up, having r...
When trouble hits start-ups, Twittersphere is the first to know - Livemint
When trouble hits start-ups, Twittersphere is the f...
Freshdesk and the art of keeping customers happy
Bengaluru: The spark that led to the creation of Chennai-based Freshdesk Inc., the $700 million start-up that grew to service 100,000 clients in just six years, was one angry comment.
The year was 2010, and Girish Mathrubootham, who was then vice-president of product management at Zoho Corp., a company that sells a suite of software products for small businesses, was browsing through the Hacker News website. Users of customer support software maker Zendesk were griping about a sudden increase...
Google and Facebook's attention to India might speed up Indic ...
Google and Facebook's attention to India might spee...
What your social data is telling companies - Livemint
What your social data is telling companies - Livemi...
The rise of B2B start-ups
Bengaluru: Earlier this year, three former executives from Flipkart Ltd, India’s most valuable e-commerce firm, launched Udaan, an online marketplace connecting manufacturers, wholesalers, traders and retailers. In November, Udaan.com raised $10 million in Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners India and Lightspeed US.
In a year that saw investor excitement around consumer Internet companies cooling, dozens of startups in India’s B2B segment like Udaan have raised money from ventur...
Customer support in the time of instant outrage: How start-ups do it ...
Customer support in the time of instant outrage: Ho...
How Indian firms are trying to survive global slump in ad tech ...
How Indian firms are trying to survive global slump...
Design, ease of use key for enterprise software start-ups - Livemint
Design, ease of use key for enterprise software sta...
Meet the first Indian start-ups to adopt IBM Watson platform - Livemint
Meet the first Indian start-ups to adopt IBM Watson...
For music apps, expanding user base, not revenue, is the focus area ...
For music apps, expanding user base, not revenue, i...
Revised patent norms for software could impact tech start-ups ...
Revised patent norms for software could impact tech...