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Eko: Mobile Banking for India

In: Entrepreneurs, Finance, Startup

Eko is a mobile banking company. It is different from other SMS-based bank applications in India. Users make payments and transfer money simply by dialing numbers.
About 60% of Indian population is unbanked and Eko targets them and right now it focuses on the 1,000 kilometer corridor between Delhi and Bihar.
The accounts [...]


The StartupBus is a Startup Weekend -like initiative. This will be totally new thing for many of us. This is a unique concept which involves a bus and a road trip.

The StartupBus program will bring together 12 strangers. They will drive from San Francisco to in Austin around the 12th of March, around the Interactive [...]


COMPANY: Tarte cosmetics
FOUNDER: Maureen Kelly, 36
LOCATION: New York City
2008 REVENUE: $12 million
EMPLOYEES: 34
START-UP YEAR: 1999
START-UP COSTS: $18,000 for 5,000 makeup fills and containers
BREAKEVEN: Five years out, on undisclosed sales
BIGGEST EXPENSE: Cost of product
QUALIFICATIONS: The insights of a lifelong beauty-products junkie

In 1999, Maureen Kelly found out that she wanted a different line of cosmetics than the [...]

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