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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 …
India’s grocery and food delivery platforms are increasingly displaying misleading images of food using artificial intelligence, defeating the very purpose of buying online.
Parent AceVector is headed for a public market debut next week. As much as 97% of its revenue comes from two businesses. One is already a listed entity, the other a missed opportunity.
After 15 years, more than $550 million in funding and over $200 million in revenue, the cloud kitchen startup must find a way to make a profit and go public. Grover is the man Rebel has chosen for the job.
