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For one week, lakhs of people across the country will come together to celebrate Entrepreneurship Week India. Designed to build public awareness and support for entrepreneurship, E Week India focuses public attention on today's biggest opportunities and encourages participants to reflect on their role as leaders and innovators. The campaign is led by the National Entrepreneurship Network and supported by the Wadhwani Foundation. - Read More

Squeakee, a yet-to-be-launched search engine for offers, has raised funding from early-stage investors Kae Capital and Mumbai Angels. The hyper-local search engine, which digs out online and offline discounts and offers based on location, will be launched later this week. Squeakee was founded earlier this year by Abrar Shaikh, who previously worked with consumer TV guidance channel, What's-On-India, and digital advertising network Komli Media. The Mumbai-based company's beta website displays offers from online and brick-and-mortar stores.- Read More

Remember those factory outlets which offered you branded seconds at oh-so-cheap prices, much below the showroom price tags. Or those backstreet electronics stores where you could find the latest handsets, again much below the MRP, as they were second hand products but refurbished to look as good as new.Well, you can have all that and more at GreenDust, an e-commerce site catering to both retail customers and bulk buyers, and offering unused, branded factory seconds, surplus, overstock and refurbished products at a price which is 25-30 per cent less than the MRP (or so the company claims. - Read More

Writing software to help small hotels run better is as niche a business as it can get. However, Prabash Bhatnagar and Aditya Sanghi who launched HMS Infotech in 2008, were clear about the long-term opportunity such code-writing offered. They built a solution that could be accessed by thrifty hoteliers at a lower rate by building software that could be paid for when used. - Read More

Game development studio Rolocule Games has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Mumbai Angels, Blume Ventures and other angel investors, reports YourStory.in. As part of the deal, Ajeet Khurana from Mumbai Angels will be joining the company’s board. The company intends to use the funds raised for product development, scale up its operations, and hiring. - Read More