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ShopClues History
2011
07th January
Sandeep starts writing the business plan for ShopClues.com
February
Radhika joins
March
Technology development starts
June
Sandeep quits his full-time job on Father's day; Company incorporates in Delaware; Sanjay joins the team; Radhika moves to India to start India office
July
Mrinal joins the team; Technology platform is almost ready
August
Angel round is raised
August - September
Team moves to India and starts operating from Sandeep's apartment in Gurgaon
October
ShopClues.com moves to an office in Gurgaon
21st November
ShopClues.com launches under closed beta only via social media; Team size 10
2012
13th January
ShopClues.com hosts first ever promotion -- traffic goes up 50x, Site goes down for a few minutes due to the surge in traffic
26th January
ShopClues.com launches its public beta; 14k in Alexa ranking
February
Reaches 100k Facebook Fans; Team size 25; Raises Series A
March
Starts Jaw Dropping Deal & Outrageous Deal; Sells 10k Adidas Deodorants in 24 hours
April
Reaches 200k Facebook Fans; Sells 10k Adidas Deo in 10 hours
May
Ships the 50,000th item; Team size 50; Touches 1mm monthly visitors
June
Ships the 100,000th item; ShopClues out of beta; Team size 100+; Ranks among the top 3 E-Commerce Sites in India by a large & popular online community of online shoppers; 400 in Alexa ranking
July
Ships over 50k products in single month, 250 in Alexa ranking, Reaches 4k cities since inception
August
200 in Alexa ranking; Crosses 3k merchants; Launches EMI
September
Launches Store Manager 2.0; Catalog size crosses 100k products; 500k Facebook Likes; Crosses 2 million monthly visitors
October
Exceeds 100k orders for the month; Over 1k brands; Launches Gift Wrap service
November
Total merchant sign-up crosses 5k; Ships 500,000th item
December
Ships over 4k daily orders; Alexa ranking 130 (1,890 in global Alexa ranking); Launches Like a Store feature; Reaches 7k+ cities in India from the start; 730k Facebook Likes; Crosses 3mm monthly visitors; Team size 200+
2013
January
Celebrates 1st year anniversary (since public launch); Closes Series B; 124 Alexa ranking
February
Ships 1 million products since inception, receives two awards for being among the best E-Commerce Sites in India; crosses 900k fans at Facebook; crosses 5kdaily orders; 100 Alexa ranking
March
Over 6k daily orders; crosses 5 million monthly visitors; 100 Alexa ranking (global top 1,500); reaches 9k cities since inception; over 25 million pages viewed
April
90 Alexa ranking; team size 250+; 8k+ total merchants; Fashion becomes the largest category first time; catalog crosses over 250k+ products and 1 million + SKUs
