Story of startup : flipkart

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Flipkart was founded in October 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny bansal former employees of amazon and graduated from IIT Delhi. It is an Indian company who had its headquarters in Banglore. Initially the company started online book sales with country-wide shipping.

Being a two-man startup, they took care of everything from developing their website to delivering books. they’d managed to deliver 20 shipments in 2007 itself. In 2008, that they had moved into a 2BHK apartment .

Slowly, their business began to boom and by the end of 2009, Flipkart had managed to sell books worth ₹4 crores. In brief span of time, Sachin and Binny had managed to grow their company at an incredible pace and that they had also developed their personalities as entrepreneurs.

With new partners and more investment, Flipkart was able to dive into the electronics category. So they started selling mobiles in 2010.Flipkart had gathered enough fame to build that quantity of trust among its customers. They come up with a superb idea of introducing Cash on Delivery as mobiles were costly thing as compared to books.

And then later they came with ideas like return policy. These features were liked by customers. Flipkart began to expand its market to different products and acquired many ecommerce websites. You may be suprised to know that flipkart also owns myntra.

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