biggies

The Biggies Awards aims to recognize the best and the most amazing Indian startups (read the methodology here).

 The Best Mobile App Award Goes To?
Smart contenders, so we looked at the ones who went beyond the usual ‘comfort zone’ and tried big things!
And the winner is?
 
 
 
PAYTM!
We congratulate the Paytm team for disrupting the space and being one of the few companies who *just won’t stop*!
– Go ahead and congratulate the Paytm team [Tweet]!

The Biggies Awards aims to recognize the best and the most amazing Indian startups (read the methodology here).

 Hot & Upcoming Startup Of The Year
The maximum number of entries came for this and there was a tough fight between the top 4 players.
The winner?
AdPushUp!
We congratulate the AdPushUp team for this feat! Ofcourse, they have a long way to go!
– Go ahead and congratulate the team [Tweet]!

The Biggies Awards aims to recognize the best and the most amazing Indian startups (read the methodology here).

 The Best EduTech Startup Goes To?
FunctionSpace : They are solving a tough challenge and we certainly believe that theirs is a great approach.
We congratulate the FunctionSpace team for this feat!
– Go ahead and congratulate the team! [Tweet]

The Biggies Awards aims to recognize the best and the most amazing Indian startups (read the methodology here).

 
And The Best Bootstrapped Startup Award Goes To?
Before we share this, we’d like to share that this is our fav. category. NextBigWhat, being a bootstrapped company has a special love for all bootstrappers out there !
The winner of best-bootstrapped startup of the year 2014 goes to?
 
 
 
 
BrowserStack!
Heads down/Focused is how we define them and we congratulate the entire BrowserStack team for this feat!
[Go ahead and congratulate BrowserStack]

The Biggies Awards aims to recognize the best and the most amazing Indian startups (read the methodology here).

 
And The Best Enterprise Startup Award Goes To?
The most interesting bit about this category is the competition between the top 3 players. We had a tough time deciding on the winners primarily because it’s damn difficult to gauge momentum of an enterprise startup. We did a lot of social data mining to gauge and the winner is?
 
 
 
 
 
FRESHDESK!
There are very few Indian enterprise startups who have managed to grow against aggressive (global) competition.  Freshdesk has been innovating and has managed to strike a perfect balance between feature release vs. customer growth.
Congratulations to Freshdesk team!! (Tweet them!).
 
 

The Biggies Awards aims to recognize the best and the most amazing Indian startups (read the methodology here).

And The Best Consumer Internet Startup Award Of 2014 Goes To?
Well, we had 100+ entries for this and given the nature of this category, we looked at disruption – purely from ‘pushing the envelope’ point of view.
And the award goes to?
 
 
 
 
 
ZOMATO.
In 2014, Zomato did disrupt the consumer Internet space and is an inspiration to many! They are a much bigger threat to global players than any other consumer Internet business in India.
Congratulations to the Zomato team. [Go ahead and congratulate them : tweet this]

The Biggies Awards promises to be a program that brings discovery to an amazing number of startups and importantly, showcase India’s strength to the world!

Go ahead and vote for THE BIGGIES. Today is the last day to vote for your fav startup (the winners will be announced next week).
Following are the different categories under which votes are accepted:
Internet Startup Of The Year. | Mobile / App Startup Of The Year | Enterprise Startup Of The Year| Education Startup Of The Year | Hot & Upcoming Startups | Bootstrapped Startup Of The Year.

We started the biggies awards with a sole focus of building an extremely data-oriented awards function. We took a while to come up with the details and the fun part is that we ended up building a scoring platform that eventually answers:
1. How to score different enterprise startups? (after all, their data isn’t known – the traffic data is definitely not an indicator of sorts).
2. How does one measure consumer startups’ momentum?
Yes – momentum is very different from saying ‘hey! I have got more downloads/traffic’. For e.g. who has more momentum? Flipkart or Snapdeal or Amazon? Let me ask: who has more momentum in seller space? Flipkart or Snapdeal or Amazon? How does one measure that?
We have made a big attempt to solve these and while we share the scoring platforms’ details later, here is your last chance to vote for your fav startup.
Please note that we have loosely used the word ’startup’ in awards categories,  but have actually called the awards as BIGGIES Awards (not StartupAwards), celebrating the rising entrepreneurial spirit and making BIGGIES more realistic and a level playing field (for the industry).
PS : This edition of Biggies awards is V0.1 : We have learned a lot and we now totally understand the scoring piece much better than others in the industry. We have taken a small step, but our eventual goal is to (slowly) open up the scoring piece to wider audience.