finals startups quiz npc2013
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Global Startups Quiz
Finals
Round 1 -Clockwise
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This Mumbai based startup – part of the 500 startups - makes doing price/feature comparison and buying mobile phones from local vendors easy. Which startup?
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This Serial Entrepreneur who is now CEO of Uber was known for building P2P software companies which was sold to Akamai. Name him and his earlier company.
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He is well-known entrepreneur, He made a spelling mistake while writing a cheque to a company that is one of the most well-known brands on the Internet. Name him and the company that he seed-funded.
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QThis Chennai-based startup makes Product Intelligence platform and is funded by Avalon Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.
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A Serial Entreprenuer and now a VC, he was one of the poster childs of the Dotcom Boom. His VC firm donates half of it's income to Charity. Name him and his eponymous VC Firm.
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The company was started by two MIT PhD students, Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket, along with Hans Robertson. The company was based in part on the MIT Roofnet project was Cisco Systems in Dec 2012. Name the company.
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Round 2 –Anti Clockwise
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He is an Armenian American internet entrepreneur, activist and investor. He is known best for founding the site known as the "Frontpage of the Internet". Name him and the company he is best known for.
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This mobile messaging app was created by Japanese citizens after problem communicating with other people post 2011 Japan earthquake. The name was originated from the fact that after the incident people had to queue outside of public phones, because in Japan the public phones "are programmed to take priority over networks during and after an earthquake". Name the App.
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It's name which means "testimony" in Swahili, was initially a website developed to map reports of violence around the 2008 Kenyan election. The company has since evolved to become a tech non-profit that specializes in developing free open-source software for data collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Name the company.
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This web site was created by Andrey Ternovsky, a 17-year-old high school student in Moscow, Russia. Ternovsky says the concept arose from video chats he used to have with friends on Skype, and that he wrote the first version of the website in "two days and two nights". Ternovsky chose the name after watching The Deer Hunter, a 1978 film set in the Vietnam War in which prisoners of war are forced to play a Russian game.
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Part of the Alibaba Group, it is the China's largest consumer-to-consumer online shopping platform. Founded in 2003, it offers a variety of products for retail sale. It is the third most visited web site in China.
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080 6791316
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Round 3 – Face off
Started by two Swedish Citizens and headquarter in Berlin, Germany, it challenged the dominance of MySpace as a platform for musicians to distribute their music by allowing recording artists to interact more nimbly with their fans. It has also raised funding from Fred Wilson's Union Square Ventures and Aston Kutcher's A-Grade Fund.
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This company was co-founded in 2005 by Stanford University graduate students George Candea, Mayank Bawa and Tasso Argyros and acquired by Teradata in 2011.
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This website makes it easy for startups to raise money from Accredited investors but soon with passing of the JOBS act in the US, it is poised to allow startups to crowd fund from unaccredited investors as well. Name this Website.
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This company's mascot is a bunny wearing an Ushanka with a red star and a red scarf around its neck. In mid-2010, it officially launched its first Android based operating system MIUI. It was also in the news when they hired Hugo Barra,VP Product Management from Google. Name the Company.
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080 6791316
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