Travel portals have started to tie-up with online shopping portals and offline retail outlets to jointly promote their value-added offers as shopping portals gather huge traffic around festival time. They reason it will help them tide over the current lean phase in the economy.
In perhaps, what is the biggest licensing and merchandising initiative on Indian television, Star formalised tie-ups with leading companies like Big Bazaar, which was formally launched by a group of leading ladies from of the Star Parivaar -- Sarita Joshi (Baa from Baa Bahoo Aur Baby), Sara Khan and Parul Chauhan (aka Sadhana and Ragini from Bidaai) and Sucheta Trivedi (Meenakshi from Baa Bahoo Aur Baby).
Again would offer two variants of double-toned milk with almonds, cashews, dates; and strawberry, chocolate, jaggery - and two variants of double-toned yoghurt - alphonso mango; and carrot, orange, banana.
K Vaitheeswaran, co-founder of Indiaplaza, one of India's first e-commerce companies, shares the lessons he learnt from its failure.
There are quite a few lesson that upcoming entrepreneurs must learn from housing.com controversy.
Start-ups that did not have a business model and, hence, could not grow or attract new funding, are shutting shop.
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