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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
For more than 25 years now, Indian companies have struggled to solve for love and relationships. At the heart of it is a complicated user base.
“Indians know how to get good grades, touch elders' feet, get into good schools, get good jobs, but they really don’t know how to date.”
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“It looks like a deceptively simple business, but it’s a very hard network effects problem.”
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“Every second table in Indiranagar is working on a dating app right now.”
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Last week, we wrote about American dating companies and how they have quietly put their India operations on the back burner in India. Match Group—which runs Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid—and Bumble have less than halved their teams and cut growth spends in a country …
American online dating companies have quietly put their India operations on the back burner, with cuts in team sizes and growth spends. What gives?
The audio chat app turned profitable by connecting people from tier-2 and tier-3 India with users who speak the same vernacular language. But its aim to turn it into a sustainable business seems too ambitious.
Info Edge’s consistent efforts to figure out what went wrong at its investee company 4B Networks are a welcome change in the Indian startup ecosystem.
