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Whether it is hype or not – ecommerce in India continues to grow

November 4, 2011 By Jai Vardhan 2 Comments

Ecommerce businesses in India have been witnessing unprecedented faith of investors in this year so far. VCs, PEs firms, angel investors and angle networks have bet high on various ecommerce businesses as they believe that ecommerce is a strong or to some extent only alternative to organized retail that more or less failed to cater to needs of consumers in the country. However, at the same time there are some investors who feel that these all exuberance (in terms of funding and valuation) are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Ecommerce, News Tagged With: Amanpreet Bajaj, Harish Bahl, Kashyap Deorah, Mukul Singhal, Murali krishnan B., rahul sethi

Enticing opprotunities in ecommerce encourage e-entrepreneurship within professionals

October 4, 2011 By Jai Vardhan 1 Comment

Ecommerce industry in India has been getting lots of traction these days and industry witnessed multiple and square growth. Burgeoning ecommerce space has also seen evolvement of newer trends on various front, however one trend that particularly catches my attention – why lot of senior professionals are tempted to hop on to bandwagon of e-entrepreneurship. In last two months, around ten senior professionals have deserted their plush professional stint and most of them did so to make a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Ecommerce Tagged With: entrepreneurship in ecommerce, Manoj Chandra, Muralikrishnan B, rahul sethi

Erstwhile President, tradus.in Rahul Sethi decides to plunge into e-enterpreneurship

September 29, 2011 By Jai Vardhan 8 Comments

Rahul Sethi - Erstwhile President ECom. - Ibibo

Indian eCommerce industry is growing very fast and trend of deserting the plush professional career and step in to riskier and volatile space of entrepreneurship is also growing. Enticed by the growth with intent to fill the gap of growing demand in Indian eCommerce industry, one of the experienced, young and seasoned senior executive from Indian eCommerce industry has taken the plunge in to entrepreneurship. Rahul Sethi, the erstwhile, President of tradus.in joins the bandwagon of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ecommerce, Interviews, News Tagged With: ibibo, rahul sethi, tradus.in

Cashing on Cash on Delivery

September 27, 2011 By Jai Vardhan 1 Comment

Online businesses are growing in India with fair pace and we have witnessed some promising innovations to track the consumer’s wallet. Amongst various new innovative trends, Cash on Delivery (COD) seems to be the major driver behind swelling ecommerce business prospects. Less penetration of credit cards with consumer’s unease with enabling online transactions, COD looks as a viable en route to access tier two and three cities, which believe to fuel the growth of online shopping in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Ecommerce, Internet Tagged With: Amanpreet Bajaj, Cash on Delivery, COD, femella.com, kavya arora, Letsbuy.com, rahul sethi, tradus.in

Teething troubles of logistics in Indian ecommerce landscape

September 14, 2011 By Rahul Sethi 5 Comments

E commerce industry in India is growing at a phenomenal pace but are the services supporting it at the backend able to keep pace? Logistics and fulfillment form one of the key backend supports for an eCommerce set-up. Although we have seen quite a bit of improvement over the years in these services but the kind of logistic challenges which companies faced during the build-up years of e-commerce industry in India forced the new entrants to move in the direction of creating their own … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ecommerce, Editorial Column Tagged With: Aramex, ibibo, logistc challenges in ecommerce, logistic in ecommerce, rahul sethi, tradus.in

“The decision of our internal funding is dictated by overall exuberance of entire online ecosystem in India”- Rahul Sethi

August 24, 2011 By Jai Vardhan 3 Comments

Rahul Sethi, President- ecommerce- ibibo web

Online businesses in India are witnessing unprecedented faith of investors and consumers at the same time. External funded ecommerce companies in India are showing lot of exuberance , however the internal funded company like tradus sees ecommerce as running a marathon where level of energy including funding should be in synchronization in order to clear the finish line of e-marthon. Iamwire team interacted with Rahul Sethi, ecommerce arm of ibibo in his effervescent office brimming with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ecommerce, Interviews Tagged With: ibibo, nasper, rahul sethi, tradus