Juvalia & You is an online imitation jewelry e-commerce platform that was launched in mid-2012. It is India’s first international online jewelry brand and it works on the multi-marketing model. The brand operates in Delhi/NCR, Chandigarh, Punjab and Mumbai and now intends to enter the Gujarat and Maharashtra markets. We interviewed Mr. Chaitanya Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of Juvalia & You...

Buying domains in India has indeed come a long way since a time when only a knowledgeable few knew how to buy one. As the Internet industry grows in India, we have to take a look at the starting step towards making something on the Internet – buying a domain. Those of us who took to the Internet recently will have realized that booking a domain can be easy and quite cheap too (Rs. 99 for a year)....

There are so many recommendation services which show you what and where to eat. So what is the logical next step for a startup that is exploring the food and restaurant sector? Food delivery of course! Delhi based startup BigBite is one such venture which focuses on delivering food right at your doorstep for free. Delivery services can be challenging as the more popular a restaurant gets, the more...

Done with college? So what is the next step? Most of the people who this question applies to, reply with a one word answer “Job”. While almost everyone acts on the idea, there are very few who have complete and accurate knowledge about their prospective employers. Straightforward observation will demonstrate that most of the job seeking population from 18 to 32 years acts to choose a career on...

So what did two graduates from Stanford Business School and Harvard Business School had in common when they decided they quit their lucrative jobs and start their own e-commerce portal in India? It’s simple. The need to tap into a unchartered market and create consumer awareness, apparently. But Prashant Tandon and Sameer Maheswari, have a vision which can be termed over ambitious or extremely clever,...

We wrote yesterday on Carwale being acquired by Axel Springer. We spoke to Mohit Dubey – Founder of Carwale on the acquisition and the road ahead. Here is our exclusive interview with him. 1) How do you plan to leverage the expertise that Axel Springer and India Today have in the auto publishing space? Can we also expect to see CarWale expand its set of services? There are a lot of synergies...

As a student, I have seen lots of seniors landing themselves very lucrative job offers. Once, I had the opportunity of talking to the on campus placement head of Yahoo, who informed me that it is a very tedious and demanding job, albeit fruitful, of handpicking a few students from an entire batch. From a broader angle, big companies generally have to riff through hundreds of glorified resumes everyday,...

We recently spoke to Vdopia‘s co-founder and Chief Business Officer, Saurabh Bhatia in an exclusive interview concerning the recent $4 Million Series-A Funding raised from Nexus Venture Partners. It seems the funding has come to them at the right time when many online streaming sites are finding it tough to monetize video content hence specialized video ad networks like Vdopia are enjoying success....

Buzzintown.com, an entertainment portal which provides information and a guide to events and movies in cities across India. It also allows users to purchase tickets online. They claim to have ‘revolutionized the entertainment industry that has made life much easier today’. Dr. Saran founded Buzzintown in 2007 and raised funding from Intel Capital in July 2008. We spoke to him to know more about...

WATBlog spoke to Vikas Saxena, India Head, Nimbuzz on Skype, Voip and 3G in India.. Here is the interview: 1. Tell us something about Nimbuzz As I said Nimbuzz is a Rotterdam based company, and we are backed by some of the most successful VCs in the business like Naspers Group and Mangrove Capital Partners. Nimbuzz predominantly is a multi-community mobile social messenger combining instant...