Founders who pivoted after failure include Stewart Butterfield (Glitch to Slack), Kevin Systrom (Burbn to Instagram), Evan Williams (Odeo to Twitter) and Tobi Lütke (Snowdevil to Shopify). Each dropped the original idea, kept the one thing users actually wanted, and built a company far bigger than the first attempt. Pivoting feels like losing. Mostly, it […]
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In the Mumbai vs Bengaluru startup funding race, Mumbai won 2024. Its funding jumped 154%, from $1.5 billion to $3.7 billion, which put it ahead of Bengaluru for the first time. Zepto’s mega-rounds and a surge in late-stage deals drove most of the jump. Bengaluru took the top spot back in 2025. What Happened in […]
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Most royal families in India earn money today through heritage hotels, palace tourism, museums, real estate, event hosting and, for some, politics. Their government allowances ended in 1971. The families that survived turned palaces into businesses. Here are the top 10 royal families in India and how each one makes its money. How Do Royal […]
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A celebrity’s name on a pitch deck gets a startup covered in every entertainment blog within a week. It doesn’t get the unit economics right. That gap – between headline buzz and boring operational discipline – is why so many Indian celebrity-backed ventures raise money, generate a flurry of press, and quietly disappear two or […]
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Every Shark Tank India season closes the same way: a wave of headlines about how many crores got committed on stage. What those headlines don’t tell you is how few of those deals actually turn into real businesses. Some brands take the cheque, get a nice bump in Instagram followers, and quietly fade by the […]
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Most celebrity business ventures don’t survive past the launch party. A perfume line here, a tequila brand there, gone in three years once the novelty wears off. The ten below are different – each hit an actual billion-dollar milestone confirmed by a funding round, an acquisition, or an IPO. Eight are companies the celebrity actually […]
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AI in professional sports isn’t a future story anymore. It’s calling balls and strikes, predicting torn ACLs before they happen, and cutting game highlights before the final whistle blows. Here are 10 concrete ways it’s running through pro sports today, with the actual systems and leagues using them. Quick Answer Professional sports organizations use AI […]
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Satya Nadella told a room full of Indian-American tech executives in Seattle this week that India’s edge in AI isn’t infrastructure or capital. It’s people. Speaking Thursday at the “IDEAS4INDIA: Indian American Tech CEOs Forum,” hosted by the Consulate General of India, the Microsoft chairman and CEO pointed to what he called the “ingenuity of […]
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From October 15, 2026, NPCI is charging a 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI payments above ₹2,000 made to merchants. Customers don’t pay anything extra – the fee comes out of the merchant’s side, split between banks, payment apps, and NPCI. Payments up to ₹2,000, all person-to-person transfers, and small shops collecting under ₹1 […]
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Four Indian startups just landed a seat at Google DeepMind’s table. Terrastack, Varaha Climate, Farmers for Forests, and Climitra Carbon are joining the inaugural cohort of the Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI for the Planet (APAC) – a climate-focused program that hands selected teams frontier AI models, technical support, and three months of Google engineering time. […]
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