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if you are a startup or small product company and running short of testing time and resources and want to get your product tested without hiring testers here is a good news for you. 99tests can solve this problem of yours, 99tests is a software testing platform based on crowdsourcing concept.

99tests is a Bangalore based startup founded by Praveen Singh and Avinasha Shastry.  99tests is an online testing platform which aims to bring together a passionate group of testers. 99tests provides access to a community of software testers, where software owners can post their product to be tested and get bugs filed for their products.

99tests has adopted a simple workflow, Clients can create a contest and set a cash reward for the most valuable tester. Clients need to upload the clear testing specifications, and testers compete for the cash reward and file bugs as per its priority/severity.

The client then validate the bugs and award points for very valid bug, tester with maximum points is declared winner and prize amount is transferred through PayPal account. Platform currently has 300+ testers and over 1000 bugs have been filed. 99tests takes a nominal fee from the client for usage of its platform.

USP of 99tests platform is Developers/Entrepreneurs can get an on-demand QA team of top testers to test their product and reduce the goto market time.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com

Prism Education, a Delhi based education startup recently launched TopCPTcoaching, a coaching/learning and mock test platform which aims to be one stop solution for CA aspirants. Its a common fact that not much course material is available online for CA entrance and also lack of offline coaching centers for CA entrance exam,TopCPTcoaching is all set to close this gap.

TopCPTcoaching provides online/ offline course material in Accounting, Mathematics, Economics, Mercantile law which are  specifically designed by CA and MBA faculties. Bundling of product is done quite smartly, student can opt for complete course or there is an option of selecting individual course.

TopCPTCoaching is powered by a  test analysis engine which provides various reports based on difficulty level and time taken to answer each question, percentile for each question, sectional percentile and overall percentile. Such reports are possible only with computer based learning

TopCPTcoaching offers quality course material at economical price, and pricing starts from Rs. 900. To entice the users TopCPTCoaching offers free sample mock tests to assess themselves and also validate their content. Teasers of all subjects are well placed in the homepage, a paid subscriber can take 100 practice tests and 10 full length tests and get can round the clock support from inhouse faculty.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com