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Divine Relations: A Matrimonial Website For People With Chronic Illness

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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. Matchmaking platforms aspire to do just that. Unfortunately, many youngsters cannot eat the proverbial ‘shaddi ka laddu’ due to chronic diseases. Vivek Sharma along with a friend Sushil Dugar established their website Divine Relations after coming to the same conclusion of helping those people find a life partner.

After losing his son to an undiagnosed medical condition, Vivek Sharma – an alumnus of IIM Calcutta, quit his job and started a medical communication and media agency, which he later converted into a private limited firm. Sushil Dugar, Senior Manager in an IT enabled company had started an NGO in the name of his cousin Mickey, who had succumbed to Autism at the age of 15.

Together, Sushil Dugar and Vivek Sharma established the Mickey Amogh Foundation in 2013 to support underprivileged women and children in education, healthcare, organizing blood donation camps and skill development. Later they started a free to use the portal, available online and on Android phones – named Divine Relations. Its aim is to connect people with chronic diseases or having fought and survived chronic diseases, to give them the opportunity to have a Happily Ever After.

Officially inaugurated on November 4, the platform offers complete security to the users by registering with their Aadhar card or passport number along with the disease type and stage. It does not provide the complete information present in the profile apart from the age, place and the disease they suffer from. The complete details are made available only when someone accepts the invitation.

With 40 plus people already registered, their biggest problem is spreading awareness about the platform. So far only social media is used, according to Mr. Sharma.

Although the website is yet to see success in the form of married couples, Vivek Sharma is still hopeful and aims to touch 10,000 lives within the decade. Partner Sushil Dugar adds that they wish to bring color to the lives of people, who have no one to share their life.

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As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, we bring to you five women founders who run world famous and successful startups.

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These wrongly targeted ads might be the side effects of performance marketing or a weak brand marketing.  Performance marketing means advertising programs where advertisers pay only when a specific action occurs. These actions can include a generated lead, a sale, a click, and more.  Inshort, performance marketing is used to create highly targeted ads for a very specific target audience at a low cost.  Performance marketing usually means high volume for a very specific cost.  

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There is always the case of supply and demand, with the supply usually exceeding the demand on digital platforms.  Ultimately, it boils down to the choice between no ad versus low relevance ad and it is quite easy to guess that having a low relevance ad is better.  

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In March 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed its economic destruction on the world, Knotel was valued at $ 1.6 billion.  What is even more interesting is Knotel raised $ 400 million in Series C funding in August 2019 which led to its unicorn status.  However, with the COVId-19 pandemic and its consequent lockdowns and curfews by various governments across the world, startups and businesses shifted to a remote working model.  This in turn led to startups pulling out of Knotel properties to cut down on working costs.  

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In late March 2020, according to Forbes, Knotel laid off 30% of its workforce and furloughed another 20%, due to the impact of the coronavirus.  It was at this point that Knotel was valued at $ 1.6 billion.  The company had started the year with about 500 employees.  By the third week of March,Knotel had a headcount of 400.  With the cuts, about 200 employees remained with the other 200 having either lost their jobs or on unpaid leave, according to Forbes. 

In 2021, Knotel filed for bankruptcy and agreed to sell its assets to Newmark, one of their investors for a total of $ 70 million dollars.  As work culture is still undergoing changes as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic and with many companies realising that remote work model saves costs and improves work efficiency, the flexible workspace sector would continue to face challenges.  Knotel is just the tip of the iceberg and is a warning call for the flexible working spaces industry.

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