Jaaga Startup Blog

OnePlus India at Jaaga Startup

We were ecstatic to have Mr. Miguel Martin Romero, Chief Evangelist at OnePlus conduct a talk at Jaaga Startup penthouse.

Jagriti Yatra Day 3: Education in Hubli

Ice cold water poured out of a small bucket woke me up this morning in a juugad shower stall created between plastic covered seats. I had thought myself clever for having woken up before the 6 o’clock alarm for a shower. With five bucket shower stalls for…

Jagriti Yatra Day 13: Goonj in Delhi

Goonj is a fantastic company located in the capital city.

Anshu, the founder of Goonj, first realized the importance of textiles after meeting a man who was begging not for food but for clothing. Why was clothing the most important thing…

Jaaga’s Thirteen

And what about the me-toos?

At Jaaga Startup we get a lot more applications than we can accept into our coworking space. This leads to questions internally about selection criteria, primarily around me-too startups. We have tended to reject these startups as not innovative enough and we are now questioning…

Jagriti Yatra Day 5: Aravind Eye Care

It was eight o’clock, 10 hours behind schedule, when we pulled into Madurai, the town of temples. But it was not the temples we were there to see. Or at least, not the religious temples. Rather we pulled into an eye hospital, Aravind Eye Care, the most famous eye…

Jagriti Yatra Day 15: The End in Ahmedabad

It was sunny in Ahdmedabad yesterday. The Yatris arrived in Gandhinagar and were shuttled in busses to the shady grove surrounding the house where Mahatma Gandhi lived. It was a simple house, as one would expect from the man who personified simplicity and…

PechaKucha — German Artists in Bangalore

A rainbow spotlight and loud rap welcomed confused looking guests to a half finished rooftop auditorium last Monday night, the 21st. Little did these guests realize that this was to be the most conventional part of the evening…