Category: Internet Start Ups
Airbnb is a website, where everyone can rent and/or list for renting lodging. Not only from New York to San Francisco, but almost everywhere in the world. The sites act just as a mediator, it only connects travelers and hosts and doesn’t own any of the listed properties. It doesn’t matter if you are looking for a vacation rental, an apartment to live or just a room to stay in for a day or two. “Air Bed and Breakfast” is the solution to your problems. This is how this great business was started… This Was How The Start-Up Idea Was...
Clear Car Rental is an Indian company providing car rental services in most of the big cities in India. It is actually an online car booking portal on which you can easily find your preferred car at the best price. The site is one of the pioneers in its field and it has an amazing start-up story. Founded just a few years ago (in 2010), the site has become one of the leading car rental services in India. Here is how this happened… The Start-Up Story Of Clear Car Rental While being of Aurangabad origin doesn’t mean coming from the...
Google is an amazing company and this is not only my opinion. The company was the best one can find to work for in 2016, according to Fortune. It has been a dream for many college graduates, some of which would kill to get a job there. Well, it’s one of the coolest companies of all time, isn’t it? Employees get all kinds of perks, and I am not talking only about the free haircuts and the ‘cleansing’ toilets, but also about some little weird ones… Like their death benefits according to which employee’s spouse gets 50% of the dead...
Just by holding a dinner meeting with Mr. Haresh Chalwa, managing partner at India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) and former Network 18 CEO, Housing.co.in closed on another funding deal less than four weeks after their previous investment. At least according to Mr. Advitiya Sharma, co-founder, housing.co.in, Mr. Haresh was impressed with the team and its product and that’s why he made the funding. Whether that’s exactly what happened, or some secret relationship between housing.co.in and Mr. Haresh triggered the funding, the company’s success story truly merits anybody’s faith and trust (including Mr. Haresh’s). The housing portal idea came up in...
In mid-2013, Indian travel entity redBus was officially acquired by Naspers – a South African-based media and Internet group – via IbiboGroup, Naspers’s Indian subsidiary. Looking back on the company’s short history since its startup less than a decade ago, you would almost agree that the partnership with a company of Naspers class is nothing less than a milestone 100% deserved. RedBus was founded in August 2006 by Phanindra Sama, Sudhakar Pasupunuri, and Charan Padmaraju – three engineers who were schoolmates at The Birla Institute of Technology and Science and workmates at various companies in Bengaluru. They began renting and...
Basecamp is one of the coolest companies in the world. Its headquarter is in Chicago but everyone working there is free to live and work from anywhere else in the world. This is how, not much surprising, many of the employees of Basecamp work from home and other convenient locations. The company has an amazing startup story, it’s really intriguing and this is why I thought it’d be great to have it on this site. To all of you, Basecampers, I wish you luck and successful business. What Is Basecamp? Basecamp is an on-line project management software, used by thousands...
You can get rich and very successful even by a complete accident. In fact, many great businesses come to the world totally by fluke. And this is how one of the most popular social publishing platforms – Movable Type was born. It was started by a husband and wife, who created a system with the only ambition to make their own blog and a few years later they were millionaires. Today Movable Type is used by millions of people and by some of the largest companies in the world for their websites. It’s an open-source CMS software for creating sites,...
When he was only 12, Ephren Taylor started his first business venture – video game design. He was crazy about games, like most of the kids his age. He started reading “How To Make A Video Game In 21 Days”, by Andre LaMothe, every day after school, and after a few months he had coded his first game – shoot the bad guys trying to outrage the president. Some of his friends and schoolmates were the first market for his product, they bought the first copies at 10 dollars each. Motivated by his profits, Ephren continued to develop. A year...
When she was just 14 years old Ashley Qualls, born in Detroit, launched a site with the idea to publish her personal portfolio of pictures that she was making. The site was started in 2004 under the domain whateverlife.com, which derives from “for whatever life you lead”. Ashley had the humble desire to make a funny and interesting site with “things for anyone and everyone”. Having some knowledge in the field of web design, she began publishing free MySpace layouts and different tutorials helping teenagers with graphic design and programming. Every user with an account on the site also had...
What Is Twitter? Twitter is a very popular social network that allows its users to post short messages (known as “tweets”) of up to 280 characters, which can be read by other users. Tweeting means sending messages. Twitter can be used to connect businesses with customers as well as a personal communication tool. The site was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area, like so many big-name websites of the early 21st century. Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has grown to become one of the most popular social media platforms in the world with millions of users from all...
