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A recent article in Crunchbase (link) examines how mayors in cities across the U.S. are trying to curry favor with startups. The findings from a Crunchbase News analysis of the geographic hiring practices of U.S. unicorns. Since most of these companies are based in high-cost locations, like the San Francisco […]

Scaling Startups Are Setting Up Secondary Hubs In These Cities


Here are some of the prominent startups that announced shutdown in May of 2018 Northwestern Mutual shutting down LearnVest – After paying $250 million for the startup three years ago, the insurance company is shutting it down June 5. In a statement posted to the Northwestern Mutual website, the company […]

RIP: Startup shutdown in May 2018


The Trump Administration issued its formal proposal to rescind the International Entrepreneur Rule, a regulation designed to allow entrepreneurs to grow and scale their businesses in the U.S. This rule allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to use clear and careful criteria to identify, on a case-by-case basis, entrepreneurs […]

Trump Moves to Dump the U.S.’s Startup Visa



StumbleUpon co-founder, Garrett Camp, has announced that the project is coming to an end 16 and half years after its launch in 2001. Camp is now recommending that StumbleUpon users migrate their accounts over to another of his projects, Mix.com, which he says incorporates the lessons learned from StumbleUpon “to […]

Social media ‘startup’ StumbleUpon closing after 16 years


Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 29th April 2018 News you can use Google Holding $11 Billion in Its Startup Investments – Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has shared a result from its years of sizeable startup investing for the first time on […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 27th May


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Indian micro-delivery startup MrNeeds shuts down – It was trying to stand out against eCommerce giants like Bigbasket, Grofers, and Amazon.in in a hyper-competitive market. MrNeeds was focused on optimizing the supply chain and minimizing delivery costs. It had raised about $500K in pre-Series-A funding from a group of angel […]

RIP: Startup shutdown in April 2018



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A micro-delivery startup, MrNeeds, based in Noida (India) recently announced that it is shutting down. The website simply says “Our Store is Closed.  For any support please call – 0120-4362116  or  email us at support@mrneeds.com”  The company was trying to optimize the supply chain for local delivery of grocery delivery […]

Indian micro-delivery startup MrNeeds shuts down


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Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 22nd April 2018 News you can use DNotes Global, Inc. Announces Release of new digital currency -–  The company announced the production release of its DNotes 2.0 digital currency. The launch comes in the wake of a […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 22nd April


Coinprism, was founded in 2014 as an online wallet service for “colored coins”  that allowed users to store and color their Bitcoins. It recently announced in a message on its website that it would shut down, and advised users to “withdraw your funds and export your private keys before this […]

Coinprism, ‘Colored Coins’ startup has shut down



This week we feature, shradhanjali.com, India’s first tribute portal. Shradhanjali.com helps digerati re-live the lives of ancestors and departed loved ones. On the portal, one can upload, store, publish and share biographies in 24 Indian languages. One can also review family tree, videos, photos and visitors can post condolence messages […]

Startup of the week: Portal for Memorials in India – ...