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The Internet has revolutionized our lives and has made things easier than before, to an extent that we hardly have to step out of the comfort of our homes to buy anything anymore. Be it, clothes, groceries, books, furniture or a plumber- the internet has more or less provided solace to all our problems. 
 And, now with <keyword id="477331" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Bakri-Eid">Bakri-Eid</keyword> being just days away, Muslims have lapped up the potential of the internet, especially sites like <keyword id="6360657" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="OLX">OLX</keyword>, Goat India and <keyword id="1028643" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Quickr">Quickr</keyword> and have taken the buying and selling of <keyword id="59746" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="goats">goats</keyword> online. 
 
There is a picture for reference. Goats of varying shapes and sizes are priced as cheap as 5,000 to as steep as 40,000 depending upon the breed and size of the goat. 
 
That’s not all. These websites have also introduced special goats to lure in customers to buy goats online. 
 
The only downside? While buying a goat online, breeders will neither be able to bargain for prices, nor will they be able to conduct a check on the goat for their satisfaction. 
 
That must be the reason why a farmer in Rajasthan was successful in selling a goat for a whopping Rs 2.5 lakh. 
 
Offline farmers aren’t pleased with this development, as expected. Majority of them not only fear that their business will suffer, but they also believe that buying a goat online doesn’t have the same charm as buying it in person. 
 
Yes, because you’d rather have a first-hand look at the life of the animal you’re about to kill than have it wrapped and delivered to you. 
 
While, I’m not sure how the delivery of the said product will be carried out, I would just like to take the opportunity to say this- if you’re a true lover of goats, buy it the old-fashioned way, by stepping out and participating in the walk of shame towards the market.

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If you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a wantrepreneur equipped with a dream to create a billion-dollar business in India, one of the IITs is your best bet. 
 Unicorns are <keyword id="6362513" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Startups">startups</keyword> with more than a billion-dollar valuation and the IITs have produced 12 unicorns. 
 
Sage, a UK-based accounting, and payroll company stated this in a research and reinstated the belief that the premier institution is still numero uno for attaining success. 
 
In terms of countries that are home to the most number of unicorns, US tops the list with 144 unicorns, followed by China with 47. India grabbed the third spot with 10. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/what-should-indian-start-ups-hope-for-in-budget-2017/articleshow/56893271.cms">ALSO READ: What should Indian startups hope for in Budget 2017</a> 
 
In the study that lists universities that have produced the most unicorn founders, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) bagged the fourth spot. 
 US-based <keyword id="101399" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Stanford-University">Stanford University</keyword> claimed the top rank with 51 unicorn founders, followed by <keyword id="97117" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Harvard-University">Harvard University</keyword> with 37. 
 The <keyword id="73593" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="University-of-California">University of California</keyword> came third with 18 unicorn founders and <keyword id="6354859" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="IIT">IIT</keyword> followed with 12 founders. 
 India is home to 10 unicorn companies from e-commerce giants <keyword id="6354742" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Flipkart">Flipkart</keyword>, <keyword id="541988" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="SnapDeal">Snapdeal</keyword> and ShopClues to cab aggregator Ola, restaurant aggregator Zomato, classified ads platform Quickr, digital payments company <keyword id="6357120" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="PayTM">Paytm</keyword>, mobile ad tech player InMobi, messaging app Hike and analytics company Mu Sigma. 
 Within the various IITs, it is Delhi that produced the maximum unicorn founders. <keyword id="6354867" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sachin">Sachin</keyword> and <keyword id="6364080" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Binny-Bansal">Binny Bansal</keyword> of Flipkart, <keyword id="118292" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sanjay-Sethi">Sanjay Sethi</keyword> of ShopClues, Zomato founders <keyword id="476451" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Deepinder-Goyal">Deepinder Goyal</keyword> and Pankaj Chaddah, Snapdeal's <keyword id="396598" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rohit-Bansal">Rohit Bansal</keyword> and Quikr's <keyword id="1063538" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pranay-Chulet">Pranay Chulet</keyword> and <keyword id="2124885" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jiby-Thomas">Jiby Thomas</keyword> (now founder of <keyword id="4123624" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="webbutterjam-digital">Webbutterjam Digital</keyword>) are all products of <keyword id="57604" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="iit-delhi">IIT Delhi</keyword>. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/exclusive-what-moms-want-from-the-budget-2017/articleshow/56872243.cms">ALSO READ: Exclusive: What moms want from the Budget 2017</a> 
 Ola's founders <keyword id="1543567" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bhavish-Aggarwal">Bhavish Aggarwal</keyword> and <keyword id="2412264" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ankit-Bhati">Ankit Bhati</keyword> went to IIT Bombay. 
 Inmobi's founders Naveen Tiwari, Abhay Singhal and <keyword id="75744" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amit-Gupta">Amit Gupta</keyword> studied at IIT Kanpur while their co-founder <keyword id="2682435" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mohit-Saxena">Mohit Saxena</keyword> went to IIT Roorkee. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/take-a-tour-of-oyo-rooms-attractive-new-property-townhouse/articleshow/56781794.cms">ALSO READ: Take a tour of OYO's attractive new property: OYO Townhouse</a> 
 
According to the study, for over 60% of the founders all over the world, the current unicorn company was the only company they had ever built. However, indicating that experience literally pays, the research said those who founded more than one company have, on average, a 34.5% higher valuation than those who founded just one company ($4.29bn vs $5.88bn).

The IITs are the fourth largest producer of unicorn startups in
the world

Apart from competition on the field, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=ecommerce">e-Commerce</a> giants are also competing with each other to get the best talent. 
 
With <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=startup">startups</a> mushrooming every second and old ones firming their ground with investors and innovation, e-Commerce giants like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=flipkart">Flipkart</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=snapdeal">Snapdeal</a>, Quickr, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Urban+Ladder">Urban Ladder</a>, etc are looking for top talent to cement their place in the industry. 
 
For this, they are eyeing top <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=engineering+students">engineering institutes</a> for recruitment and are offering lucrative offers to woo students at IITs, NITs and other institutes. 
 While, <keyword id="6354742" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Flipkart">Flipkart</keyword> is planning to double the number of employees of its technology team to 2,400 engineers, <keyword id="541988" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="SnapDeal">Snapdeal</keyword> will also do the same to about 2,000 this year. 
 
As per Economic Times, nearly 10% of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=IIT">IIT</a> students had joined such companies last year and the percentage may grow this time round. 
 
"We are not limiting ourselves to any fixed number for campus hiring. We are rearing to go and will be aggressive at the tech, B-school and logistics campuses. We will attract talent by selling them the opportunity to work with an ecommerce leader that will impact a larger audience," Dalbir Singh, senior director human resources at Flipkart, told ET. 
 
Snapdeal will rely heavily on the campuses for fresh talent to widen its base of tech team. 
 
Meanwhile, Rajiv Srivatsa, chief operating officer and co-founder of Urban Ladder, said the startup plans to visit campuses earlier this year than it did last time round. "Technology is where the rubber meets the road and ideas become reality. As technology is so integral to us, this year we will try to be ahead of others in tapping the top campus talent," Dhruv Dubey, vice president - HR at <keyword id="6381424" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Quikr">Quikr</keyword>, told the financial daily. 
 
Meanwhile, interest level among students to join startups is also growing due to roles and atmosphere offered by the startups. 
 
"I will go to the top IITs and talk about the company and the culture that boosts fun and flexibility," online grocer PepperTap's CEO Navneet Singh told ET. 
 
Also, hiring students at an early stage is also becoming the norm at e-Commerce companies. 
 
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Engineers are back in vogue. All thanks to Snapdeal, Flipkart
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While the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Heres-why-Budget-2016-is-crucial-for-the-real-estate-sector/articleshow/50835775.cms">Real Estate sector</a> is facing a slug in the market, the scenario is a little bit different for online players. Despite realty sales being the slowest in the past two years, the online <keyword id="6354553" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="real-estate">real estate</keyword> sector has attracted a whooping investment of $250 million or Rs, 1600 crores. Consolidation of the market has been the main reason behind its growth. In the last one year we saw the merger of CommonFloor and Quickr and acquisition of Makaan.com by PropTiger. 
 The online game is played mainly by two players, investors like 99 acres, <keyword id="2501463" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Magic-bricks">Magic Bricks</keyword> and Housing.com and transaction players like <keyword id="3241608" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Squareyards">Squareyards</keyword>. In the last two years, while classified players struggled to find a good monetisation model, the whole value shifted to the transaction sites. 
 
“Last year we actually grew more than 225%,” said Vivek Agarwal, Principal Partner, Squareyards.com who acquired three companies in the last few years. 
 
Challenges 
 
1. Cost of property is skyrocketing due ever increasing tax limits. 
 
2. Lack of any uniform GSP forces the online portal to provide separate provisions for each state. 
 
3. The usage of technology is limited. 
 
“Most of the work is done manually and hence becomes cumbersome for online portals,” said Sudarshan Purohit, CEO and co-founder of Zenify.in, online real estate player. 
 
4. The sector is not corporatized yet. It is still dominated by small players. 
 
“The first thing we are expecting is to gain an industry status,” said Vivek. 
 
5. While building, too many clearances need to be done which are often delayed and not transparent. 
 
Expectations 
 
1. “One of the things that we are looking forward is more exemption in the housing loan limit,” said Agarwal of Squareyards. Right now we get certain part of our housing loan exempted from taxes but the way costs have moved up, the small part has become insignificant now. 
 
2. Also, the housing loan exemption is not applicable for the units which are under construction. But looking at these companies’ customers’ profiles, we will see most of them invested in construction property but they can’t take the exemption till the property is actually constructed. 
 
“We want this exemption to be extended to construction property also,” said Vivek. 
 
3. They certainly hope that Real Estate Regulatory Bill is passed. Once that bill is passed it will open many doors for the online real estate sector. The builder will then have to put online all the details with the regulatory authority like the license status, land acquisition status, details of environment clearance etc. 
 
“Things will become more organised. When the information estimation goes away, the information will become structured structured. Hence, portals can put all the information online from where a customer will get all the details with a single click,” he said. 
 
4. Most of the demand on the online portals is from the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Budget-2016-Why-rental-housing-is-the-next-big-thing-in-the-realty-sector/articleshow/50931836.cms">budget and affordable segment</a> which ranges from 20 lakhs to 70 lakhs. Once this government pushes ‘<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Housing-for-All-Budget-2016-expectations/articleshow/50901695.cms">Housing for all by 2022</a>’, the online sector will get a major boost. This will also attract NRIs to invest in India. As a consequence, the online sector will grow at a breakneck speed for these portals are the major source of information for the buyers abroad. 
 
“We sold about 780 units in the affordable segment in three weeks in Bangalore, most in the range of 20 lakhs. The customers were both from India and abroad,” said Vivek. 
 
5. “We expect more investment in Technology of this sector, about 1 billion,” said Sudarshan. 
 
6. More transparency in the process of getting clearances, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Budget-2016-Impact-of-FDI-in-real-estate-sector-and-future-expectations/articleshow/50866872.cms">relaxation of FDI norms</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Budget-2016-One-of-Indias-biggest-realtor-Surendra-Hiranandani-says-the-sector-needs-Industry-status-to-survive/articleshow/50929511.cms">'industry' status</a> and passage of regulatory bills are the other things they expect from this budget to cash in the most from the available opportunities. 
 
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