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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
A three-part series that documents the rise and fall of Quikr so you don’t make the same mistakes this startup did.
This is the second of a three-part series that will document the rise and fall of Quikr, an online classifieds business that once was a unicorn, which raised hundreds of millions of dollars, only to end up an entangled mess. The series will give an account of 16 years of Quikr—the idea, pivots, frauds and the painful decline. As a learning. For fellow entrepreneurs so they don’t repeat the same mistakes, and for students of India’s emerging entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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It’s almost as if Quikr wanted to do what nobody else was doing. Or possibly what it thought nobody else …
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