THE STARTUP QUIZ

MARCH 03,2016 | EDITION – 1

by

APARNA

Dedicated to the
entrepreneurs who
inspired me.
 Identify the startup and why
was it in the news recently?
(5+5)

Q1
 Place of Origin
Acquired by Craftsvilla

Q1
 Working space of which startup?
(10)

Q2
 FreshDesk

Q2
 Connect
(10)

Q3
 Started by TAPMIANS

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

Q3
 Identify the startup and what
business is it in?
(5+5)

Q4
 CoinDesk
- Bitcoin Index

Q4
 Identify the personality (left) and his work
(5+5)
Bonus 5 if you can connect two
personalities

Q5
 Sandeep Goenka
Zebapay

Q5
 Build something 100 people love,
not something 1 million people
kind of like.

Identify entrepreneur who

said this and his startup
(5+5)

Q6
 Brian Chesky
- Airbnb

Q6
 Connect
(10)

Q7
 (co) Founded by Women

Chitra Gurnani Daga – Thrilophilia

Pallavi Gupta – Mast Kalandar
Radhika Ghai Aggarwal- ShopClues
Nidhi Agarwal – Kaaryah
Upasana Taku - Mobiwik

Q7
 Earnings breakup of which company and
what’s the significance ?
(5+5) bonus 5 for founder names.

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]

Q8
 “What if you could play SimCity for real?”
Identify the place(not the obvious) and its
significance.
(10)

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.

Q9
 Identify the companies and the connect
(15+5)

Q10
 Tracxn | Angelist | Letsventure
Online Deal making platforms

Q10
 Identify the odd one out (10)

Q11
 Wishberry – Mostly to crowdfund art
and tech project.
Ketto and Milaap are for social causes

Q11
 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.
(5+5)

Q12
 Amazon – Kirana Now
PayTM - PaytmZip

Q12
 Name the startup &
The creative agency
behind the
campaign (5+5)

Q13
 PRACTO - LOWE LINTAS

Q13
 Connect
(10)

Q14
Q14
 Fiber, Nest, Life Sciences, Calico are a part of which
company?
(10 and right startup jargon will get you 5 bonus
points)

Q15
 Alphabet’s Moonshots
(Google will get 0 points)

Q15
 You know Unicorns. Companies with over $1b
valuation. But what are centaurs and ponies?
(5+5)

Q16
 Centaurs - >$100million valuation
Ponies - >$10 million valuation

Q16
 Connect
(10, bonus 10 if you can identify all)

Q17
 Y COMBINATOR
Sam Altman
Paul Graham – Just a genius :)
Jessica Livingston – Founders at Work
Trevor Blackwell - Anybots

Q17
 What’s common between them?
(10, bonus 10 if you can explain)

Q18
 FUNDED BY CELEBRITIES
Yatra – Salman Khan
BabyOye – Karishma Kapoor
TicketPlease – Ajay Devgan
Qyuki – Shekhar Kapoor

Q18
 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)

Q19
 ELON MUSK
Burning Man Festival - SolarCity

Q19
 Identify the social venture
(10, bonus 10 for naming the founder)

Q20
 WelloWater
Cynthia Koenig & Shradha Rao
Funded their venture by winning $100,000
from competitions

Q20
 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)

Q21
 Elizabeth Holmes
Theranos – A diagnostic firm

Q21
 Identify the app and Name the
entrepreneur (5+10)

Q22
 MyChild App – helps parents screen
developmental disorders in their kids in just 45
Seconds.

Started by Harsh Songra, 19 year old.

Q22
 What do they have in common?
(10)

Q23
 Biggest Startup Competitions in the world

Q23
 Susan Kare
Lee Clow
Chrisann Brennan
Nolan Bushnell

Connect the personalities to an entrepreneur

(10)

Q24
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