Bigadda, the social networking and blogging platform from Reliance Entertainment is now changing its avatar into an eCommerce portal. In a communication to the users Bigadda mentioned that no user data would be available after 15th July. We value and …
Most of the other company review sites have been abandoned as well. Criticat, Talentty. Apart from the fact that most of these sites went thru’ recession blues when jobs were hardly few and far in between, there was ofcourse a basic missing factor – that of monetization/sustainability.
BrandAdda, a destination site to track community pulse has decided to shutdown, citing lack of success on the business front. Founder, Tej Arora shares some of the insights/challenges they faced while running the company. 'There were many challenges we faced …
Update (April 20th, 2012): The site is back now! Started by IIM alumnus, Zibika was focused on insurance space (earlier coverage) and had tie ups with Swiss-based VIG Insurance brokers, ICICI Lombard, Future Generali, Reliance Life and Bharti AXA insurance. …
Digital OOH company vJive, which was started in 2004 has shut shop, as mentioned by a reliable source.
The company raised close to $5mn from Matrix Partners and tied up with retail outlets (like Subhiksha) as well as BFSI outlets for expansion.
After ‘Art of Start’, is there anything called ‘Art of Dying’ in Entrepreneurial world?
Sneakcast, video search engine (an Indian startup) is officially dead (though we announced their march towards deadpool in May 2008 itself). Utkarsh (founder)’s tweet: officially shelved Sneakcast.com as we could not raise the desired funding.Other investors thanks for s'portin us …
Webaroo has decided to morph into it's portfolio product, SMSGupshup - the site now redirects to smsgupshup's site. Webaroo started an application that will enable users to search and browse web pages without an Internet connection. Its use is especially …
BookEazy, Pune based online movie ticketing service has shut shop and the founders will now focus on Lipikaar, the language transliteration startup. 'There has been a significant shift in the way Multiplexes view their customer-facing partners, starting with discomfort to …
Techtribe is dead and the founder, Rohit has launched a new startup Tenmarks.
Internet video startup, TinselVision has closed it's operations and the site now throws 403 error. Tinselvision closed $6mn last year and their video-on-demand service was targeted towards South Asian communities in the US, UK and Canada. They had struck online …
Travel lead generator, TripMela has decided to shut down their operations and the site is on sale @ eBay.in Tripmela's business model revolved around lead generation (via travel newsletters) and has an opt-in email database of 80,000 subscribers. We've done …
Ninemotion (read our review), Bangalore based online marketplace/exchange for SMBs has decided to shut down it's service. Deepak Vinchhi, co-founder of ninemotion shares his insights/experiences: "The only real failure in life is the failure to try." nineMotion Story, The End, …
Hyderabad based OrderMonger (read our earlier review), has decided to shutdown their service. "We regret to inform you that OrderMonger.com will cease all operations from Oct 1, 2008. This decision has been taken predominantly due to non-viability of the business …
Over the last few days, you must have noticed few posts on shutting down of few Indian startups - while it disturbs some of you, the reality is that it's a representation of market dynamics. "It is better to have …
Antya, (profiled earlier) the Indian version of Mahalo is almost nearing deadpool (or shortcircuit, as we call it). Founders (earlier used to work for ibibo) have moved on: Sunny Saurabh has joined MySpace as Product Manager (linkedin) Bharanidharan has joined …