We love to talk about successful companies, their success stories, their funding stories, and how they are doing right now.
These no doubt inspire us. But for many of the startup owners we personally contacted with, these stories often act as a source for inferiority complex. Hence, we tried to dig into just the “starting” up stories of few companies when they were just startups. How they ideated, initiated, got funded, struggled and how they kept on trying and diversifying their ideas.
Here we go with the first one in this series: Uber. Kindly note, this column doesn’t talk much about how these companies are doing now, because all of these are well-off and well-established organizations as we know them. And for details on how they are doing currently, we have separate series of column.
UBER: A school dropout ideates a company with illegal profits, pays huge fine, gets funded for a new app and launches Uber in 2010…all after he doesn’t find a cab for himself on a snowy night. A fast forward, Uber is valued at $17 billion today (and growing).
When we talk about cool companies with uber-cool (pun intentional!) ideas, we do think about Apple, Tesla, Facebook and along them, Uber does crawl in. And the difference lies in…Uber is still growing, and growing pretty fast.
Uber is certainly not the one many would suspect of a struggle, it’s uber smooth for uber…isn’t it? No.
Many would think they know what the startup is all about and how it operates, but very few actually know the blueprints to the bigger picture. Uber is for sure not only a private chauffeur entity. In fact, it is a logistics company, and its stunt with food delivery, flower delivery and helicopters on demand (yet to arrive in India) is an example of how you can do whatever you want once you have the right application for it and once enough people are using it.
A FLASHBACK:
Diese Geschichte stammt aus der August 2018-Ausgabe von Exhibit.
Starten Sie Ihre 7-tägige kostenlose Testversion von Magzter GOLD, um auf Tausende kuratierte Premium-Storys sowie über 8.000 Zeitschriften und Zeitungen zuzugreifen.
Bereits Abonnent ? Anmelden
Diese Geschichte stammt aus der August 2018-Ausgabe von Exhibit.
Starten Sie Ihre 7-tägige kostenlose Testversion von Magzter GOLD, um auf Tausende kuratierte Premium-Storys sowie über 8.000 Zeitschriften und Zeitungen zuzugreifen.
Bereits Abonnent? Anmelden
TECH HIGHLIGHTS
itel launched a 5G smartphone that cost under ₹10,000 rupees.
TECH LAUNCHES
itel's new flagship 5G++ smartphone, the itel ColorPro 5G, is now available for ₹9,999 on Amazon.
TOP3 SHUTTERBUGS TOP CAMERAS AND ACCESSORIES
Canon EOS R5 Mark II, the upgraded version of the EOS R5, has been making news since its launch.
TOP3 SMARTPHONES (ABOVE 90K)
The Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max is a flagship marvel with a 6.7-inch Super Retina XDR OLED display, A17 Pro chip, and a standout camera system.
THE BEST WIRELESS GAMING ACCESSORIES IN THE MARKET
Do wires bombard your gaming setup and cable management just isn't doing it? Going wireless is the path for you, then.
THE BATTLE OF THE MID-RANGERS
The mid-range smartphone arena is bustling with innovation and fierce competition.
THE BATTLE OF THE FOLDS
The wait is finally over, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 has arrived, and it's ready to take the smartphone world by storm.
WHO TAKES THE CROWN?
Looking to drop some cash on a new phone? Well, 30k is the Goldilocks budget for snagging a sweet new device.
CMF PHONE 1 AFFORDABLE, ADAPTABLE, AND HIGH ON AESTHETICS
When Nothing launched its firstever smartphone, it created a wave of excitement, and now the smartphone launched by its sub-brand, CMF, is making a noise in the smartphone world.
ONEPLUS PAD LAPTOP SUBSTITUTĘ
The Oneplus Pad 2 is coming in hot to challenge Apple's iPad domination.