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E-commerce firms get an edge over others on valuationsLivemintWhile in sectors such as consumer services or information technology, start-ups hardly raise more than $10 million (`45 crore) in their second rounds of funding, group buying and shopping sites such as Snapdeal, Infibeam and Naaptol.com may be ...
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Should you join a group to bag that deal?LivemintAt present there are at least 20 group buying sites, including Snapdeals, Mydala, Dealsandyou, SoSasta and Taggle. “These are platforms that help customers and merchants discover each other,” says Gaurav Chopra, CEO and co-founder, Dealsandyou. ...
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Bigshoebazaar Raises $9M From Catamaran & Nexus Venture PartnersVC Circle... Flipkart raised $8-10 million from Tiger Global, Jasper Innovative Marketing Solutions, which owns the popular group buying portal Snapdeal.com, has raised $12 million in a series B financing from Nexus Venture Partners and existing investor IndoUS ...and more »
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Five attractive sites for Common ManSiliconindia.comSnapDeal is a product of Jasper, which is a leading marketing company in India. Marketing, technology, retail and analytics professionals to provide quality and cost-effective customer management for consumer brands founded the company. ...and more »
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Snap, What a Deal!Little IndiaA grateful Indian village has renamed itself SnapDeal.com Nagar after SnapDeal, India's version of Groupon, provided it with handpumps. The company's founder Kunal Bahl donated 15 handpumps to the village at a cost of $5000 so villagers didn't have to ...
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MediaNama.comSnapdeal In Talks To Raise Rs.200 Crore: ReportMediaNama.comJasper, the consumer marketing company that owns daily deals website SnapDeal, is in advanced funding talks with Bessemer Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Indo-US Venture Partners, ...
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News Roundup: Bessemer, Others In Talks For Snapdeal.com StakeVC CircleBY TEAM VCC Three investors are in talks to invest Rs 200 crore in Snapdeal.com parent Jasper, valuing it at Rs 1000 crore. Bessemer, Others In Talks For Snapdeal.com Stake - Bessemer Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Indo-US Venture ...Bessemer, Nexus and Indo-US Venture Partners in talks to invest Rs 200 crore ...Economic Timesall 3 news articles »
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Deals India: Morning News RoundupWall Street JournalBessemer Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Indo-US Venture Partners are in advanced talks to invest Rs.200 crore in Jasper Innovative Marketing Solutions, the owner of the group buying site snapdeal.com. (The Economic Times) Peabody Energy ...and more »
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"Snapdeal.com is addictive"Financial ExpressMy job is great: I get to constantly think of ways to make Snapdeal.com a household name, and it's a lot of fun. The turning point in my career: The day when I decided to quit my corporate career and joined my friends to work on Grabbon.com, ...
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Marketers target women hooked to social mediamydigitalfc.comSo much so, e-commerce portals like Tradus.in or Snapdeal.com are seeing impressive female traffic and repeat purchases. A study by global research agency Nielsen shows that though the best way for marketers to reach out to the Indian woman consumer ...
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Village in India Renames Itself for Ecommerce SolutionZippyCartIndian daily deals ecommerce solution “Snapdeal,” basically a home-grown Indian version of Groupon, has been enjoying sustained growth. They also closed a 12 million dollar funding round, but that didn't affect their CEO's philanthropic action. ...and more »
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Starting Up - News Wheel (Snapdeal.com and trol.ly)
Start-ups turning smaller towns into job hot spotsmydigitalfc.comStarted in 2008, e-commerce portal Snapdeal, which offers daily discount vouchers for different lifestyle, travel and beauty products already employs more than 400 people across 50 cities and towns that they are present. “We want to penetrate beyond ...
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Daily-deal websites boom; Some see a bubble buildingDaily News & AnalysisSnapdeal, a poster boy for the runaway success of daily-deal websites, gets local merchants to offer “deep discounts” on products and services to the value-conscious Indian consumers. For merchants, this offers an affordable route to promote brand and ...
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Indian Village Changes Its Name to SnapDeal.com Nagar [PICS]MashableA village in northern India has changed its name from that of a god to SnapDeal.com Nagar. The tiny town had good reason to, because SnapDeal, India's version of Groupon, provided it with fresh water. SnapDeal's founder Kunal Bahl wanted to do ...Small Indian Village Renames Itself Snapdeal.com NagarThe AtlanticIndian Town Renames Itself 'Snapdeal.com'TIMEIndian Village Renames Itself Snapdeal.comMobilediaMumbai Mirror -Gigjets -Gizmodoall 80 news articles »
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Tech2Village in U.P Renamed Snapdeal.com NagarTech2So, the next time someone asks you for directions to Snapdeal.com Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, India, don't be surprised. For the villagers belonging to this humble village in the northern Indian state, actually took up the name of the brand which adopted ...Snapdeal adopts village in Uttar Pradesh, residents rename it Snapdeal.com NagarDigitall 2 news articles »
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The Next WebIndia's answer to Etsy emergesThe Next WebWith the e-commerce scene booming in India, thanks to startups such as Snapdeal, Flipkart and Infibeam, Indian handicraft workers have begun to adopt e-commerce in order to boost their sales, moving beyond the existing traditional channels. ...and more »
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Deccan HeraldIt's not a deal, it's a steal!Deccan HeraldThe number of desi deal makers stood at 30 when counted last - Deals and you, SoSasta, Rediff Deal Ho Jaaye, Koovs, Dealivore , Mydala, Timesdeal, Snap Deal, Cityoffers, Bindaas Bargain, Taggle - to name a few. The leader of the pack, according to many ...
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Tech2Snapdeal.com adopts village in UPIBNLive.comPTI | 09:06 PM,Jun 14,2011 Lucknow, Jun 14 (PTI) In a bid to develop infrastructure and provide basic amenities to the rural population, e-commerce company Snapdeal.com has adopted a village in Uttar Pradesh. "As a part of its social responsibility, ...Snapdeal adopts village in Uttar Pradesh and residents renames village to ...Economic TimesNews Digest: Snapdeal, Nokia, Zoom Technologies, Coal India, MTNLMediaNama.comVillage in India Named After a Groupon ClonePenn OlsonpluGGd.inall 9 news articles »
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Snapdeal: India's Groupon rises fast and furiouslyEconomic TimesHe launched Snapdeal.com - now popularly called India's answer to Groupon, the world's biggest provider of daily online deals. Since January this year, Snapdeal has been growing its revenues at over 100%, selling unused inventories of everything from ...and more »
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Snap Deal by Lennart Green
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Group buying sites eye expansionBusiness StandardDelhi-based Snapdeal.com plans to to start its operations in 100 cities, up from the current 45, by the year-end, according to its Chief Executive Kunal Bahl. Bahl says the one year-old online venture is growing 150 per cent month-on-month and claims ...
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Group buying: A shopping trend that is here to stayDaily News & AnalysisKunal Bahl of Snapdeal.com believes that group buying sites are all about the performance. “We take the money from a client only when customers redeem their discount by making a purchase,” he says. While majority of the deals on offer might convince ...and more »
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Group Buying Portal Groffr Acquires Mobstreet.inDealCurryGroup buying startup Jasper Infotech (SnapDeal.com), a multi-channel direct marketing platforms company, acquired Grabbon.com, Bangalore-based group buying site. Some other group buying portals are Snapdeal.com, mydala.com and taggle.com.Group Buying Site Groffr Acquires Mobstreet.inVC Circleall 4 news articles »
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Indian ExpressBuy some, get some freeIndian ExpressA few months back, when Nayan Chauhan came across snapdeal.com, she continued to browse through it. “I saw so many discounts that one could avail of through this website. In fact, I got a hair-wash and a haircut with a manicure and a pedicure, ...
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One Stop Online Shop for the Very First Time in IndiaOnline PR News (press release)More recently you might have come across an online shopping website that offers daily deals , it goes by the name SnapDeal.com. However, how many of these daily deals website can really afford to advertise on Indian television? ...and more »
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News Roundup: 400 Layoffs at AOL India(?), Visa and Snapdeal Enter Strategic ...pluGGd.in[source/unconfirmed yet] Snapdeal, owned by Jasper, a leading marketing platforms company, has entered into a strategic alliance with Visa. As part of this partnership all Visa Debit and Credit cardholders in India will enjoy various benefits on ...and more »
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Deals on the net: Due for change?exchange4media.comAside from the big names like SnapDeal and GroupOn itself, which entered by buying SoSasta, there are plenty of others, including Deals and You (which just crossed 1 million users) and Dealivore and Taggle, operating around the country, ...
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Nightly News: U.S. losing immigant brainpowermsnbc.comKunal Bahl, 27, and his partner, Rohit Bansal, launched SnapDeal in February 2010. They're already the No. 1 e-commerce retailer in India. “SnapDeal is a very simple concept,” Bahl said. “Every day there is one attractive deal and people come to the ...and more »
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Deccan Herald'Toughest biz quiz in India' produces an upsetDeccan HeraldAnd, finally, what is the link between Toggle.com, Snapdeal and Grabbon? If you know the answers to these questions, you might have been crowned a quiz champion and marked as an up-and-coming corporate manager. The self-proclaimed “toughest business ...
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The Super Duper List of Groupon Clones in India [18 and counting]pluGGd.inSnapDeal was leading the game all along with boatload of marketing $$s being pumped in, the one thing that hasn't yet changed. SnapDeal was testing the ads on the big ecommerce network Ebay, who has also entered the space. Groupon will be ramping up ...and more »
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[Snapdeal Story] “Grabbon Acquisition Was The Turning Point For Our Business”pluGGd.inThis is the third and last part of Snapdeal story. In the first part, Kunal Bahl (Cofounder of Jaspers Marketing, the parent company of Snapdeal) talked ...Best of the Best: Tech Blog RoundupNewsFactor Networkall 2 news articles »
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Interview with Kunal Bahl, Snapdeal
The Snapdeal Journey–Of Failed Experiments & A Lean Startup Story [Part 2]pluGGd.inKunal Bahl, cofounder of Jaspers (parent company of Snapdeal) discusses some of the key challenges they faced. We were operating out of a residential area ...
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Interview with Kunal Bahl, Snapdeal [Part 2]
[The Snapdeal Story] From Selling Detergent to Building India's Largest ...pluGGd.inThe group buying, couponing space is one of the hottest sectors in India and while Groupon has entered India recently, Snapdeal stands out as the leader. ...
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Interview with Kunal, Founder of Snapdeal
The Next WebHow India's SnapDeal plans to beat Groupon at its own gameThe Next WebSnapDeal, currently India's largets coupon site, is having to answer that question right now. How it chooses to answer, though, might very well surprise you ...
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Kunal Bahl Creating a competitive Snapdeal advantageMoneycontrol.comKunal Bahl, Co-founder & CEO, is all of 27, he has founded Snapdeal.com, which deals with discount coupons and vouchers on the web, he claims he adds a user ...
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Snapdeal secures $12 million for coupon dealsVatorNewsIndian-based coupon site Snapdeal.com announced this week that it has received a $12 million investment led by Nexus Venture Partners and IndoUS Venture ...SnapDeal.Com raises $12 mn through VC fundingBusiness StandardSnapDeal.com raises $12 Million fundingMedia Newslineall 6 news articles »
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VentureBeatDeals & More: Storenvy snags $1.5M for indie e-commerce marketplace, Cohuman ...VentureBeatSnapdeal scores $12M to deliver daily deals in India: The company has raised a funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners to offer discounts from local ...and more »
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