PENNYFUL.IN

                   

Bangalore based online retail start-up, founded by 25 year old Ravitej Yadalam promises to pay us a part of what we spent on our purchase. This is the India’s first cash back site, launched on Nov 2011 that gives us a part of our money back, if we do our travel and other shopping via pennyful.in website. If we need to make a deal on pepperfry.com, we go to pennyful.in and the site directs us to pepperfry.com.For any deal we make, we get part of our cash back which is either credited to our bank account or snail-mailed to you as a cheque.

                    Currently pennyful.in has about 100 partners in India and adding more online merchants. In India pennyful.in will be starting an offline programme as well. Here the pennyful employee walks up to us at the retail outlet or restaurant. We can register with our email-id and then earn our cash back on the purchase we have just made.

                      

METERPODU Shocked by autoricksaws fare in cities chennai, bengaluru, hyderabad, coimbatore and mysore why not ,when we think of goingout fares of autorickshaws is the factor which will be worrying for most of us . The distance is not too far, but autorickshaws fare for that distance is far beyond the money in our purse .we cannot bargain to rude autodrivers when we do know the correct amount to be paid for those autodrivers for certain distances and we can only shut our mouth pay the amount cursing him inside.Two techies from U.S. Anantha Subramanian and Mayur Narasimhan who returned to their hometown by 2010 was worried by seeing merciless treatment of autorickshaw's drivers .They thought about solving the problem and found the root cause of promblem, why high fares it is because we are not familiar with autorickshaw's fares .This lead them to comeup with a start up of www.meterpodu.in launched on 2012 february 11, where the people who are familiar with autorickshaw's fare for particular distance can enter the average fare amount by login in facebook or twitter its procedure is simple that everyone can understand.

To help people who want to know the average amount or autorickshaw fare for a distance can open the site choose region,source ,destination and select getfares , route will be plotted and will recive answers. This start up soon recieved 1500 hits within two days of the day when it was started with request of people the extension of the service to coimbatore and mysore was done. To this service site Let us also contribute our knowledge in facebook or twitter about average fare to be paid for autorichshaw's driver for the distance we know.Hope no more these autorickshaw drivers can be rude with you because you will gain knowledge of fare to be paid in the meterpodu site as you read this article and also share this knowledge with others and save their money to get you treat for the knowledge you shared with them.

                  

                       BankBazaar.com is an online loan marketplace and founded by, Adhil Shetty (CEO), Arjun Shetty (COO), Rati Rajkumar(Chief Product Officer).They have previously worked for Amazon.com,Kraft Foods,Deloitte consulting and Capital One .Their headquarters are based in Kodambakkam area of Chennai and software development is in Bangalore. Their product lines include personal loans, home loans, and car loans.They stand in their uniqueness by,

1.       Lowest interest rate from all top banks in India with which we can compare our option.
2.        Multiple offers from multiple banks where we can compare rates from all leading banks in India.
3.        Reward for choosing Bank Bazaar where thousands of Rupees back on our loan.
4.       .Instant status updates on our loan application.

                      Their partner banks include Indian and foreign banks including Axis Bank, Deutsche Bank, HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Bank. BankBazaar.com allows users to provide reviews for each product. They can rate the product on rating scale. Business Today magazine featured BankBazaar.com as one of ‘India’s one of Hottest Start-ups’ in 2010. 

What would we do if we could not get a ticket on the bus to go home for Diwali? Keep cribbing about if for every other Diwali to come? But when faced with the above situation Mr.Phanindra Sama did not do just that, he dwelt on the current situation and when he discovered that the travel agents don’t have all the information regarding all the possible bus operators  leading to a information gap, he decided to fix it.

He got together along with two of his classmates from BITS Pilani, Sudhakar Pasupunuri and Charan Padmaraju and created a organized bus ticketing service provider.

This company which was started in 2006 had a turnover of Rs. 50 lakhs in the first year and multiplied to 5 crores the following year. They crossed the magic figure of 100 crores in the 2011 and have set a target for about 300 crores this year. They currently have 500 people employed.They have about 700 bus operators with 10,000 buses listed, works in 15 states and sells around 8,000 tickets every day.

USP

1. Customers can choose their seat
2. Customers can book return tickets
3. Multiple bus operators.
4. Standard fares    

Redbus has made into the2012 list of the World's 50 most innovative companies. And it certainly deserves a place in the list.

Myntra, an e-commerce start-up founded in a three-bedroom apartment in south Bangalore in February 2007 by three IIT alumni Mukesh Bansal, Ashutosh Lawania, and Vineet Saxena , has been hitting the high note since undergoing a strategic makeover two years ago, attracting 25.000 customers to its site daily, and $20 million in venture capital funding. The firm, which started with personalised merchandising solutions to companies, realised that its business was fragile, with wafer-thin margins and large volumes, and re-invented itself as an online apparel merchandiser.

Myntra has 30 brands in its kitty which includes Puma ,Nike ,Maxima,Arrows, Lee cooper, DKNY, Levis etc and its expecting to have 100 more brands where its target is to reach 250 brands. Its slowly moving into fashion and lifestyle segments and it focus on quality along with discounts . It has segments like men , women and kids where each one is given attention it requires registration it has facility of 24 hours dispatch which is plus point to it and other features as cash on delivery ,free shipping ,100% original products it has style blog named stylemynt which provides style guide for men , women and trends sounds attractive .will the new fashion & lifestyle idea of myntra along with old features help myntra to continue success in coming years!!!!!

TravelTriangle.com

 

                                  TravelTriangle.com is an online travel service founded by  Sankalp  Agarwal and Sanchit Garg, graduated from Indian Institute of Technology. Prabhat Gupta, another IITian is a core development member. This online platform being launched in 2011,has gained revenue of Rs 1.2 crore in just 7 months. They started out their business in Noida with a business motive that links customers to travel agents who offer best deals.

                             These deals are  value added as they are customized to specific needs of the traveller.Each request from the customer is sent to at least three travel agents with operations in the customer's destination area.The services are free to the travellers who get the best deals from multiple agents. They have the tie ups with 150 travel agents in India, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Egypt.

Pepperfry.com

Pepperfry.com is an online shopping website based in India. It is relatively new since it was launched on December 2011. It was founded by Mr Ambareesh Murthy and Mr Ashish Shah both of whom were former employees of eBay (no wonder they decided to start up their venture on the same line). It was started with the venture capital of 0.1 million. It has its headquarters at Delhi and has about 70 employees.

 Pepperfry.com is more like a multi-product departmental store with over 25000products featuring apparel, bags and accessories, furniture & home decor, Jewellery and Perfumes & cosmetics. It features brands such as Lotto, Little India, Peter England, Beverly Hills Polo Club, Octave, Allen Solly, L’Oreal among others, and allows users to browse various departments using filters for brands, product type, size, colour, design etc., 

Preview of Pepperfry.com

Pepperfry.com promises the customers a unique and worry free shopping experience with a special factor being the transparency in pricing. There’s also a rewards/loyalty program and users get Pepper points which are redeemable in form of cash discounts. The site also has a 15 day return policy where-in the customer can return the product, stating a valid reason and get his money back.

 Whether pepperfry.com will make it among the top league of online shopping websites is a question that can only be answered with time.