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Why We Started A Change.org Petition Fighting India’s Late Payment Culture

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  (Our petition against India’s late payment culture can be found here) The Late Payment Problem We’re going to keep this short. Now that 97% of Indian SMBs were reportedly paid late in 2015, the late payment culture in our business environment has gotten out of hand. Today, India officially carries the longest average payment delays in the Asia Pacific for B2B SMB invoices, 51% of...

Why Flipkart Taking Clients to Court For Non Payment Is A Big Deal

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What’s The Scoop With Flipkart?   “The digital industry is suffering because there have been several cases where advertisers default on payment… We do not have a strong industry body in terms of payment collection yet.” –  Amar Deep Singh, CEO, Interactive Avenues   (article originally posted here) Between April and May 2016, one of India’s e-commerce leaders – Flipkart–...

The Business of Accelerators

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Accelerators are in the business of creating Startups – or atleast taking the first bet. Its a startup of startups; Which means, everything they talk about as risk, in venture capital nicely gets bundled up and will get put on the head of what is the accelerator. Going back to the basics, Now depending on which accelerator you are involved with, there might be two or three key milestones...