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Startup Quiz - Edition 1 - TAPMI - ESPRIT
- 1. THE STARTUP QUIZ MARCH 03,2016 | EDITION – 1 by A P A R N A Dedicated to the entrepreneurs who inspired me.
- 2. Identify the startup and why was it in the news recently? (5+5) Q1
- 3. Place of Origin Acquired by Craftsvilla Q1
- 4. Working space of which startup? (10) Q2
- 5. FreshDesk Q2
- 7. Started by TAPMIANS Q3 Obino - Ritu Soni Srivatsa,2002 Absyz - Balesh Lakshminarayanan and Anshul Jain, 2010 Indian Artizans - Ruchi Jhawar ,2005 JigSaw Academy - Ms. Sarita Digumarti, 1997 UpSkill Capital - Apaar Kasliwal, 2004
- 8. Identify the startup and what business is it in? (5+5) Q4
- 10. Identify the personality (left) and his work (5+5) Bonus 5 if you can connect two personalities Q5
- 12. Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like. Q6 Identify entrepreneur who said this and his startup (5+5)
- 14. Q7 Connect (10)
- 15. Q7 (co) Founded by Women Chitra Gurnani Daga – Thrilophilia Pallavi Gupta – Mast Kalandar Radhika Ghai Aggarwal- ShopClues Nidhi Agarwal – Kaaryah Upasana Taku - Mobiwik
- 16. Q8 Earnings breakup of which company and what’s the significance ? (5+5) bonus 5 for founder names.
- 17. Q8 Buffer - started by Leo Widrich and Joel Gascoigne Significance – one of the early startups to publish their earnings report (to the last penny) in the public domain. [They call it transparency report]
- 18. Q9 “What if you could play SimCity for real?” Identify the place(not the obvious) and its significance. (10)
- 19. Q9 Downtown Project spearheaded Tony Hsieh - A community oriented innovation hub Project Estimated- $350 million (2012) - The allocation is $200M for real estate, $50M for tech startups, $50M for small businesses, and $50M for education, arts, and culture.
- 20. Q10 Identify the companies and the connect (15+5)
- 21. Q10 Tracxn | Angelist | Letsventure Online Deal making platforms
- 22. Q11 Identify the odd one out (10)
- 23. Q11 Wishberry – Mostly to crowdfund art and tech project. Ketto and Milaap are for social causes
- 24. Q12 (5+5) Ola Store Grofers PepperTap Are some of the hyperlocal groceries delivery Two major players are planning to enter this market. Name the players and their service name.
- 25. Q12 Amazon – Kirana Now PayTM - PaytmZip
- 26. Q13 Name the startup & The creative agency behind the campaign (5+5)
- 27. Q13 PRACTO - LOWE LINTAS
- 28. Q14 Connect (10)
- 29. Q14
- 30. Q15 Fiber, Nest, Life Sciences, Calico are a part of which company? (10 and right startup jargon will get you 5 bonus points)
- 31. Q15 Alphabet’s Moonshots (Google will get 0 points)
- 32. Q16 You know Unicorns. Companies with over $1b valuation. But what are centaurs and ponies? (5+5)
- 33. Q16 Centaurs - >$100million valuation Ponies - >$10 million valuation
- 34. Q17 Connect (10, bonus 10 if you can identify all)
- 35. Q17 Y COMBINATOR Sam Altman Paul Graham – Just a genius :) Jessica Livingston – Founders at Work Trevor Blackwell - Anybots
- 36. Q18 What’s common between them? (10, bonus 10 if you can explain)
- 37. Q18 FUNDED BY CELEBRITIES Yatra – Salman Khan BabyOye – Karishma Kapoor TicketPlease – Ajay Devgan Qyuki – Shekhar Kapoor
- 38. Q19 X got a computer when he was 10 and made a first software sale (game) when he was 12. When X was in college he threw parties in his house and charged money for it. He also made guess appearance in Machete Kills and Transcendence. In 2004 he attended a festival and got an idea for starting Y company. Identify X and Y (5+5)
- 39. Q19 ELON MUSK Burning Man Festival - SolarCity
- 40. Q20 Identify the social venture (10, bonus 10 for naming the founder)
- 41. Q20 WelloWater Cynthia Koenig & Shradha Rao Funded their venture by winning $100,000 from competitions
- 42. Q21 X joined Standford University to study Chemical engineering. But X dropped out a semester later to start Y. Tim Draper funded the first $1m and the next 10 years, Y was only doing research. Y, and so X came to lime light in 2013/4 and X is a self made billionaire and is worth $3.6b Identify X and Y (5+5)
- 43. Q21 Elizabeth Holmes Theranos – A diagnostic firm
- 44. Q22 Identify the app and Name the entrepreneur (5+10)
- 45. Q22 MyChild App – helps parents screen developmental disorders in their kids in just 45 Seconds. Started by Harsh Songra, 19 year old.
- 46. Q23 What do they have in common? (10)
- 47. Q23 Biggest Startup Competitions in the world
- 48. Q24 Susan Kare Lee Clow Chrisann Brennan Nolan Bushnell Connect the personalities to an entrepreneur (10)
- 49. Q24