After a successful relaunch of Burrp in October 2015, Burrp is now back with the iconic Burrp! Certificates. Spread across 55 categories and 7 cities, Burrp aims to felicitate the top 300 deserving restaurants in every city through an online voting platform. This comeback will celebrate innovation and creativity in the hospitality sector across Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad & Chennai
Burrp! introduced the concept of recognizing praiseworthy restaurants in this space through Burrp! Certificates in 2009. As we celebrate a decade in the industry this year, we wanted to share our happiness with our users & restaurant partners.
The food scene has been evolving incredibly over the last few years and our users have so much more choices to look forward today. With the reintroduction of the coveted Burrp Certificates, we intend to make it easy for our users to discover great places and mouthwatering food. Burrp certificates are quintessentially for the foodie as we emphasize more on delectable food over other criteria’s
The user voting platform for Burrp! Certificates includes the following categories which are then divided into sub-categories:
Best Restaurant in the particular city-The category comprises of different types of restaurants in the specific city Best Cuisine-The category includes different cuisines served in the restaurants and recognizing the best of them Best Dish-Every restaurant has their unique way of preparing the dish and Burrp! would like to recognize the best
Burrp has constituted a jury that comprises of renowned bloggers and influencers in every city who will bring their expertise to the team in identifying the best amongst the best. Users can begin voting on Burrp website and mobile app from 28th November 2016. The voting options is open until 31st December 2016. Final winners will be decided by Users & Jury. For the users who are voting, there will be 3 daily lucky winners.
About Burrp!
Burrp! is the pioneer in the Indian food and restaurant discovery space and quite literally introduced consumer technology in the food and beverage industry. Burrp! is India’s first food and restaurant recommendation engine and has been making eating out more convenient since 2006. With the new look and app, the new team hopes to answer one single question that keeps cropping up in users’ heads all the timeWhat should I eat and where? Burrp! has listed over 65,000+ partners and since the launch of the new look in October, Burrp! has garnered over 5,50,000 mobile app downloads. For more information, please visit Burrp!
mVisa, a Quick Response (QR) code-based mobile solution by Visa, will now support payments to over 1,000 TABCab taxis powered by Ongo. The announcement marks the expansion of mVisa to a new category (taxi) after success with merchants like TataSky, Idea, Pizza Hut and others.
Using mVisa, customers will be able to pay their fare through their respective bank’s mobile banking app by scanning the driver’s QR code displayed as a badge or a sticker in the taxi. The driver will receive a payment notification either through an SMS or on the Ongo app (for smartphone users). The service is currently available on the following apps-Axis Bank Mobile Banking App, Bank of Baroda M CLIP App, Bank of India mVisa App, HDFC Bank PayZapp, Pockets by ICICI Bank, State Bank Anywhere App and Udio Payments App.
Consumers can also be eligible for an attractive promotional offer. For every mVisa transaction, the consumer gets 50% cashback (up to Rs 200). This offer is valid till 31st Dec 2016.
Powered by India Transact Services Limited. (ITSL), a fully owned subsidiary of AGS Transact Technologies Limited, the Ongo app was launched in September 2015 to enable mobile based P2M (Person to Merchant) transactions for auto-rickshaws and taxis in Mumbai. With the introduction of mVisa, Ongo enabled taxi drivers will now be able to receive cashless payments.
T.R. Ramachandran, Group Country Manager, India and South Asia, Visa, said
With the exponential growth in internet and mobile penetration in India, mobile based payment solutions are rapidly picking up. We are excited by the increasing acceptance for mVisa and believe QR codes as a payment method will play a crucial role in development of digital payments as they are supported by the full range of smartphones, including low cost models. mVisa presents an opportunity to electronify everyday spends, and public transport is an important category that we are solving for.
Ravi B Goyal, Chairman & Managing Director, AGS Transact Technologies Limited, added
In line with Ongo’s vision to create and deliver an alternate transactions ecosystem, we are consistently working towards developing mobility-based payment solutions that encourage alternative transactions ecosystem. Our partnership with Visa will help us further fuel the company’s vision where paying or getting paid digitally becomes the first choice for consumers and merchants.
Visa, the global leader in payments technology and payment solution provider AGSTTL-ITSL, aim to maximize the integration of mobile based payments to Mumbai’s local transportation as well as small merchants, working closely with government authorities, trade and merchant bodies and partners.
mVisa is a payment service that allows consumers to use their mobile phones to make cashless purchases. Users securely link their Visa debit, credit or prepaid account to the mVisa application and make purchases by scanning an mVisa Quick Response (QR) code at a retailer and initiating a transfer of funds from their card to the retailer’s account. mVisa eliminates the need to carry cash by providing customers a more convenient and secure way to pay.
About India Transact Services Limited
India Transact Services Ltd. (ITSL), a fully owned subsidiary of AGS Transact Technologies Ltd., is an Omni-channel merchant payment solutions company providing cutting-edge technology and innovative payment solutions. ITSL aims to consistently simplify the process of Transacting, Merchant Acquisition and Value Added Services.
ITSL offers a host of products and services including payment processing platform for routing commercial and retail payments between buyers and sellers across the country. Through its brand ‘Ongo’, ITSL is focused to create an alternate payments ecosystem offering Mobile wallet, Payment Gateway, Domestic Money Transfer (DMT), Point of Sale (PoS) and more. Since its launch in September 2015, Ongo Wallet has seen over 3 lakh successful downloads and boasts of more than 30,000 registered auto-rickshaws & taxis and over 1000 merchants in Mumbai alone. For more information, please visit India Transact Services Ltd. (ITSL)
Sulekha is the leader in the 200 billion dollar services market in India. They connect users with local service providers both online and on their mobile platform. Sulekha has adopted Exotel’s User Virtual Number (UVN) technology to safeguard their customers’ privacy and to bring better experience to their customers.
One of the biggest problems their customers faced was persistent calls from certain service partners, even after their requirement was fulfilled. The deployment of Exotel’s unique technology enabled them to mask the user’s real phone and communicate using a dynamic virtual number. This way, even if a service provider tries to reach the user after the user has requested Sulekha to stop calls, the Service partner will get a ‘regret’ message which ultimately protects customer privacy.
User Virtual Number (UVN) technology also prevents the service partner from storing and circulating the customer’s contact number.
In addition to safeguarding customer privacy, UVN allows Sulekha to track advanced analytics about connect rates, response rates and talk-time to understand if the customer’s service request is fulfilled or not.
Speaking about the development, Satya Prabhakar, Founder and CEO, Sulekha said
Exotel’s Virtual Number (UVN) technology helped us to assign dynamic virtual phone numbers for all user-service partner combinations. We can now keep a track of the connect rates and response rates between service partners and the user and ensure a better experience to both the parties.
One of the biggest problems that Sulekha faced was the lack of control on the conversations that happened between the user and the service partner over the phone. Exotel’s User virtual number (UVN) technology gives them more control and helps them understand the customer’s experience better.
Carnegie India, a public policy think tank is organizing its first Global Technology Summit in India on the 6th and 7th of December in Bengaluru. The summit is supported by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs apart from a host of Indian and foreign technology companies.
The two-day summit will see industry leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists, academics and policy makers from across the world getting together to discuss global technology trends, their impact on job creation, and finding the right balance between promoting innovation and effective regulation.
Speaking about the summit, Dr C Raja Mohan, Director of Carnegie India said
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has an instinctive sense for the unfolding technological transformation. But to turn his multiple initiatives-from demonetization to digital India-into effective national strategy, he needs a more intensive and sustained conversation with technology hubs like Bengaluru that are generating new possibilities for India’s transformation. Carnegie India’s Global Technology Summit is a step in that direction which will help to diffuse knowledge and develop new ideas by facilitating meaningful conversation between innovators, academia, regulatory bodies and governments.
Carnegie India visualizes the Summit as an initial effort to kick start its technology and policy initiative – one that explores perspectives from various stakeholders and provides research guidance on technology and regulation. We also aim to build conversation around the revolutionary impact of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, internet-of-things, block-chain, and other evolving technologies, so that governments and policy makers can plan ahead rather than play catch up. It is critical for the government to structure policies that will accelerate the pace of economic development through technological adoption. The Global Technology Summit is a first step in this direction.
The Summit will see technologists and technology regulators from all around the globe, including Bibop Gresta of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Ruslan Yunusov of the Russian Quantum Centre, Mark Skidmore who spearheaded drone regulations during his stint at the Australian Civil Aviation Authority, and Sopnendu Mohanty who drives fintech regulation in Singapore’s Monetary Authority. Providing perspective on India’s tryst with technology will be RS Sharma, TRAI Chairperson; S Jaishankar, Foreign Secretary; KT Rama Rao, IT Minister, State of Telangana; RV Deshpande, Minister for Industries, State of Karnataka; and Bibek Debroy, Member, NITI Aayog. The Minister of Science & Technology of Israel Mr. Ofir Akunis will be giving a special address while industry partners such as Intel, Ola, Volvo, Flipkart, Target and Dell EMC will share their perspectives through some of their senior leadership.
About Carnegie India
Carnegie India is a public policy think tank organization which was launched in April of 2016. It is the sixth international center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. The center’s research and programmatic focus includes the political & economic reforms in India, public policy, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India’s internal transformation and international relations.
Carnegie India aims to work with various stakeholders in the private and public sector and undertake research to come up with new policy ideas and recommendations. The aim is to add to the pool of research and thinking in order to aid better policy decisions aligned to make India a compelling force in the world economic and political sphere. For more information, please visit Carnegie India
The Banking and Finance sector (BFSI) is witnessing one of its most interesting and enriching phases. Apart from the evident shift from traditional methods of banking and payments, technology has started playing a vital role in defining this change. The phenomenal swing from offline payments to online payments over the last two decades has been aided by mobile apps, plastic money, e-wallets and bots. Now, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in BFSI is expediting the evolution of this industry.
AI enables a computer to behave and take decisions like a human being. Coined in 1956 by John McCarthy at MIT, AI was little known to the layman and merely a subject of interest to academicians, researchers and technologists. However, over the past few years, it is more commonly seen in our everyday lives; in our smartphones, shopping experiences, hospitals, travel etc. The BFSI sector uses AI because of its inherent advantages-efficiency and faster processing, accuracy, daily application & data availability. Here are some artificial intelligence technologies and what they offer for Banking and Finance.
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP Platforms, Predictive APIs and Image and Speech Recognition are some core AI technologies used in BFSI today. Machine Learning recognizes data patterns and highlights deviations in data observed. Data is analysed and then compared with existing data to look for patterns. This can help in fraud detection, prediction of spend patterns and subsequently the development of new products. Key Stroke Dynamics can be used for analyzing transactions made by customers. They capture strokes when the key is pressed (dwell time) and released on a keyboard, along with vibration information. As second factor authentication is mandatory for electronic payments in India, this can help detect fraud, especially if the user’s credentials are compromised. Deep Learning is a new area in Machine Learning research and consists of multiple linear and non-linear transformations. It is based on learning and improving representations of data. A common application of this can be found in the crypto-currency, Bitcoin.
Adaptive Learning is another form of AI currently used by Indian banks for fraud detection and mitigation. A model is created using existing rules or data in the bank’s system. Incremental learning algorithms are then used to update the models based on changes observed in the data patterns.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the ability of a computer to understand human speech as it is spoken. In India, ICICI has started using NLP for sentiment mapping. It is predicted that the NLP market will reach USD 13.4 billion by 2020 at 18.4% CAGR. NLP and AI bots may also be used for Whatsapp-based banking, similar to how WeChat is used for banking in China. Voice Recognition used for secure banking transactions can take payment security to the next level. The Santander Group, based in Spain, has already announced the usage of this feature in their app. Similarly, AI can be used to answer customer questions as well. Swedbank uses Nina (a web assistant) to artificially interact with customers and build loyalty.
Banks across the globe, including India, are increasingly providing Spend Analysers and Smart Wallets as value added services to customers, helping track expenses and understanding spending patterns. The lending industry can also use AI to derive user needs, borrowing patterns and the payment sequence, making lending a less risky proposition. Predictive APIs can be used for detecting frauds and for speech/voice recognition.
In India, one can see increased momentum for research and funding of AI start-ups. According to CB Insights, venture capitalist funding in AI firms has increased from USD 415 million in 2012 to USD 2.38 billion in 2016. Image recognition, product and service discovery chat bots and developer tools for enterprises to create their own AI systems are some technologies that start-ups are focusing on.
In the gamut of BFSI and the imminent marriage of Fintech companies and banks, using AI becomes all the more significant to accelerate change and improve customer experience and design. Soon we will see Advanced Robotics being implemented, Digital becoming mainstream, Blockchain playing a key role in payments and regulators turning to technology. With Asia taking the lead in technology innovation and playing a prominent role in the world of payments by 2020, BFSI should accelerate the adoption of AI and make it the core engine for business transformation.
About the author
Sanjay Goswami is the VP-Software Development at Worldline India, a leader in payment and transaction services. At Worldline India, Goswami leads product development, technology and competency building with a focus on new and emerging businesses and innovation. Prior to Worldline, Goswami has worked with reputed companies like Samsung, HCL, CSC and Syntel Inc. Sanjay is a BE graduate & has completed the Executive General Management Program from IIM, Bangalore.
Google announced the seven promising startups from India, that will join the third class of Launchpad Accelerator along with startups from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico Argentina, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. These startups will join the six month long intensive mentoring program from Google for mid to late stage startups including a two-week all-expenses paid boot-camp that kicks off early next year [January 30, 2017] at Launchpad Space in San Francisco. Additionally, each startup will get USD 50,000 in equity-free funding.
Shortlisted startups from India include an on-demand wardrobe rentals service, furniture and appliances rental service, top tutor help service, a platform for doctors to discuss medical cases with peers from across the country, an Indian word games for adults and kids, a service that allows you to earn money for playing games and a CRM app that helps businesses to do better lead management.
Indian startups selected for the Google Accelerator Program
The program begins with determining each startup’s critical challenges, in order to deploy precise mentorship, actionable solutions, and Google resources to enable their product/service app to scale. The seven start-ups will then get tailored expert guidance from Google engineers, product managers and other mentors from top technology companies and VC’s in Silicon Valley. Additionally, they will receive equity-free support credits for Google products and work closely with Google for six months in their home countries.
We are delighted to help Indian startups in their journey and help them to scale and find success in their endeavors. Access to good mentoring and advice at early to mid -stage can make a meaningful difference. Over the last one year, thirteen Indian startups have participated in the program and many have already gained from the program and have successfully raised funding. Nestaway who was part of our first batch from India closed a $30M series C investment. MagicPin that offers deals and discounts for Restaurants, Spas, Salons implemented a progressive web app that has helped them to drive over 10% of their total daily transactions. We hope the next batch will continue to find value in the program and help them to succeed.
Launchpad accelerator program made us believe that even we could build a world class product and the mentors helped us to understand what was needed to get there. We have recently asked for follow-on engagement with mentors. If you are a startup who believes in changing the world through tech product, then this is the program for you.
Consider that you have made a plan to buy a new laptop and you are in the middle of chat a conversation with your friend seeking his/her suggestions. Great, you made a decision on the which laptop to buy, time to hop to another app (e-commerce app) that gives the best deal on the laptop, finish the transaction and come back to the chat to inform him/her about the purchase! This involves so hops between multiple apps i.e. Chat Window->Coupon App (in case there is a deal on the laptop)->Choose the right e-commerce platform, complete the transaction->Return back to the Chat. Though there are lot of startups that are working on the solving the Cross App Reach issue but you again the user needs to install that application on the phone!
There are lot of innovations happening in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), etc. in mobiles as well as mobile apps i.e. apps are being made smarter by using AI. Though the keyboard on your phone is meant for typing, there is still a lot of intelligence/logic that can be built on top of the it since it is most used native application on the phone. Meet Xploree, the thinking keyboard from KeyPoint Technologies that can do much more than just typing! In this article, we review the Xploree Keyboard from KPT (The review was done by using Xploree keyboard for Android).
Xploree was born out of an idea to use Language Intelligence as a unified playground for connecting brands & services to consumers. With Xploree, the keyboard can do much more than typing and your simple input interface is transformed to a smart personalized assistant to consumers. Xploree is a smart-thinking keyboard that uses AI, NLP that takes us beyond auto-corrections and word predictions hovering over high value, “in-the-moment” discoveries, when the user needs the most!
Xploree uses patent-pending technology that deciphers’s user’s intent and serves relevant recommendations. However, understanding user intent is a very difficult task due to language variability (diverse languages, varied chat vocabulary, etc.), unique short writing styles on mobile (sentences are never uniform and decoding them when emjois are used is even tougher), identifying buying v/s selling intent and matching it with exact discovery.
In order to solve the intent prediction requirement, the Xploree keyboard predicts user intent as they text, chat, etc. based on their current and past context. User context includes many attributes such as the text being typed, the app in use, user’s geo location, his/her previous chat history, language in use, user’s favourites (brands, categories, etc.) etc. Along with user intent prediction, it also does Sentiment Analysis (positive, negative or neutral) to present the user with the best Recommendations e.g. The options being presented to a user who is searching for Flowers would be different based on the chat context & history.
Thanks to Xploree, you need not leave the context of your current app since your demands are served right in the chat context!
Xploree : Design, Privacy, Discoveries, Language support and more
Design and Performance Impact – Though Xploree is a smart-keyboard that makes deal-discovery and content-discovery easy for the users (thereby minimizing the app context switch issue), it was required that it does not digress from the Core requirements of a good keyboard 🙂 and it does not disappoint. The keyboard retains the look & feel of a normal keyboard including minimal (and some festival specific) themes. You would not miss those simple themes and customizations that you see in the stock Google Keyboard. It is very light on Memory, CPU and Battery.
Privacy and Safety –Since Xploree’s engine does the entire intent & sentiment level processing on the client side i.e. user’s phone hence, it does not consume more battery. In fact, during our discussion with the Xploree team at the #XploreeBloggersMeet, it was confirmed that there is no user data sent to any server and user-privcay is of highest priority! Hence, users can be rest assured that there is no stalking on the phone 🙂
Presto : Personalized Recommendations – Xploree user ispresented with intent based recommendations on discovery cards called Presto. Users have the flexibility to filter brands/products of interest so that discovery is more Personal & Customized.
Language Support – Xploree is available in 110 different languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Oriya, Malayalam, etc. including many international languages. The rise of the ‘new-lang’, along with proliferation of social media, has vastly impacted real-world social applications. This makes language variability more complex with mis-spelt words, short forms and ‘newbie’ lingos. Not to forget, short writing is also unique on mobile. Keeping these varied requirements in mind, Xploree supports typing in Hinglish, Tamlish, Banglish, Kanglish,etc. i.e. amalgamation of Engligh with other local language.
Emoticons, Stickers – Xploree keyboard has 1200+ emoticons and fun stickers that make conversations come alive. There are close to 50+ animated keyboard themes for download.
Apart from these features, it has all the regular features present in all keyboards:
1. Auto-correction and next word prediction
2. Adaption to user style of writing
3. New word addition and personalized dictionary
4. Easy language change on the keyboard in more than 110 options with a single swipe of the space bar
Xploree : Growing partner eco-system
For deal-discovery, Xploree has tie-ups with top e-tailers like Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Zomato, etc. and content partners like AFP, etc., Coupon partners like Coupondunia, GrabOn, GroupOn, etc. You can have a look at some of the other partners here.
It is interesting to see that the Xploree team has taken the best learnings from their previous Keyboard App – Adaptxt Keyboard into Xploree and the result is a much leaner and effective keyboard in Xploree!
Xploree : Conclusion
Xploree is a keyboard app that does much more than typing and is intelligent due to it’s intent and sentiment analysis algorithms. Xploree could be the next big thing in Human-Mobile evolution. Your keyboard would no longer be just a lame app with no intelligence and thankfully it would no longer be the subject to such jokes 😀
Xploree is pushing boundaries in NLP to transform the ubiquotous smartphones into a marketplace for consumers and information (products, content and services) convergence. Xploree is a big step in AI that solves the problem of serving relevant discoveries on mobile devices.
Xploree Keyboard app is available on Play Store & can be downloaded from here
KhanMarketOnline, does this name sound familiar to your ears? It is a site that is linked to the famous Bollywood actor, Salman Khan 🙂 Though most of his films score exceptionally well at the box-office, this online venture from him had landed into controversy since the name KhanMarketOnline is very similar to 65 year old famous Khan Market in Delhi [Source]. Yes, it all boiled down to the name and there is a possibility that Khan Market could be a registered trademark and the name of the online venture resulted in Copyright/Trademark Infringement
On a similar lines, Swedish home products retailer IKEA that had planned for it’s foray in India lost a trademark infringement case against Bengaluru-based Quess Corp that runs recruitment and staffing businesses under the brand IKYA Human Capital Solutions [Source]. This is just one-off news about Copyright/Trademark/Patent infringement and it is become very critical to protect them since they are an intangible asset for any organization [be it startup or an MNC].
The point in contention is whether startups need to worry about patents, copyrights or trademarks. There are always long-term tangible benefits in protecting company’s intellectual assets, the startup world has two kinds of entrepreneurs-those who patent their ideas and those who don’t.
As part of the Startup India Action Plan 2016, the Government of India has given significant amount of importance in promoting Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) awareness and registration. Major push has been given to remove/limit the number of hurdles for facilitation, registration of trademarks, patents, etc. for startups. These are very critical for product startups since their USP is the IP and this can effectively be a part of long-term brand building strategy!
As the serial entrepreneur Elon Musk rightly says
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product [Source]
Though India ranks 130 in the Ease of Doing Business i.e. moving up four places from last year’s adjusted ranking of 134, there are a lot of lingering questions in the minds of entrepreneurs about company registration [Sole Proprietorship/Limited Liability Partnership/Private Limited Company], Trademark/Copyright registration, etc. This is a very important problem to solve since entrepreneurs can work on their path-breaking ideas (without any distraction) and leave this job to experts!
This is where startups like QuickCompany can come to your rescue. QuickCompany is a technology startup based out of New Delhi aims to make registrations as quick and transparent as possible. It is co-founded by Manmeet Singh who started QuickCompany when he faced innumerable hurdles in registering his previous startup. He wanted entrepreneurs to be more productive (by focusing on their idea) and leave trademark, registration, patent, etc. related work to QuickCompany!
QuickCompany : Registrations, Trademarks and much more…
QuickCompany provides the following facilities for businesses
Trademarks – A trademark helps you to not only create a distinctive identity for your business but also to avoid incurring any damages. It offers Trademark registration, Trademark Objection, Trademark Assignment, Trademark Renewal. Along with clear indication of the price, Requirement of documents and Filing Time for each & every process; there is a vast amount of knowledge base about Trademarks on QuickCompany that would be very helpful for a first-time entrepreneur. This article about trademarks highlights know-how about trademarks for tech entrepreneurs.
Copyright Registration – Copyright is defined as a property right of an original work owned by an individual which is fixed in a physical medium of expression, thereby giving the holder an exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the work. Whether you are into tech, music, drama, writing, films,etc. now get legal rights for your original work for use & distribution. For more details on the cost, time frame for registration, etc. please visit this page
Design Registration – Design registration is the process by which a design can be registered thereby acquiring legal rights to own that design. The website demonstrates every stage of design registration and it is great to see that they are offering Money Back Guarantee (in case customer is not satisfied with their service). For more details, please visit this page.
Company related services – Whether you are planning to register a company/planning to add a new director to your company (and want to get the DIN)/converting your company from LLP to Pvt. Ltd or vice-versa/planning to go Public/planning to close your business, etc.; Quick Company offers these services for startups as well as growth stage companies. The Company and Trademark Data can come in very handy in case you plan to use these services.
Tax related services – Planning to export goods from India or import goods to India, than you could apply for IEC Number by using their Import Export Code registration facility. If the turnover of your business is more than 9 Lakhs and plan to apply for Service Tax, QuickCompany can do that work for you so that you can focus on expanding your business footprint!
QuickCompany : Design, Extensive Knowledge-base
The overall design of QuickCompany is very simple and we liked the fact that the Search Box (to register Trademark or Company) is given more prominent space. Since the charges are mentioned up-front, it definitely builds more customer confidence.
Since QuickCompany is also a startup, it becomes very important to have details about the Team, Customer Support details, etc. very evident in the site. However, we found that the Team Section is not mentioned in the Main Menu (Header) but is located in the footer, same is the case with Refund Policy!
The growing knowledge-base about companies, trademarks, taxes, etc. is definitely good starting point for anyone who is planning to register his/her company or trademark.
QuickCompany : Closing Thoughts
Though there are many other companies that operate in more or less similar space as QuickCompany, it would all boil down to the QoS (Quality Of Service) and the one who provides better service would win more customers! Unlike their competitors, QuickCompany is yet to enter into Patent Filing. It would have been interesting if they also had a Package Deal(for Startups) i.e.Registration+Trademark since it would be a win-win for both the stakeholders! Initiatives like Startup India, Digital India, Startup India Fund, etc. has definitely resulted in more people taking the entrepreneurial plunge and hence services provided by QuickCompany are need of the hour.
If you are an entrepreneur and plan to register your company or trademark your idea, please head to QuickCompany to avail their services…
