Naukri.com founder Sanjeev Bikchandani shares his inspiring journey from zero to the top and the lessons he learned along the way.
'Artificial intelligence works best on unstructured data. And no other country has the amount of unstructured data like India has.'
Many state governments are ready with policies to promote entrepreneurs, backed by funding plans
Agri-enterprises are finding it hard to expand due to lack of commercial guidance.
Entrepreneurship hasn't been a cakewalk for him, says Sinha.
These powerful habits will make you more productive and a better human being.
Sarvesh Agrawal tells Shobha Warrier about how he built a start-up "of the interns, by the interns and for the interns."
'Given the disdain Trump has shown for our community's values and experiences, it is disappointing that a handful of wealthy, conservative donors invited him to address their friends last weekend,' say Mira Patel and Gautam Raghavan.
Entrepreneurs, however, say they are unsure when the many obstacles in India will be cleared.
Mittal would travel in trucks with his consignments.
Build something that customers love. And then sit back to enjoy it.
'When you forgive a farmer's loans there is this ideological economists lobby which says: 'That's socialism. And that's bad'.' 'But to forgive the loans of big people, so that they will be interested to invest further is capitalism and is good.'
Farming and agriculture are crying out for a business model innovation, says R Gopalakrishnan.
'Some of these companies are India focused, some are overseas focused and some companies are focused on both.' Ritu Jha/Rediff.com reports from California.
The NDA candidate tells the Election Commission that the Maoists plan to kidnap him.
Levying buyback tax at a flat rate of 20 per cent (plus applicable surcharge and cess), irrespective of the period for which shares are held will be a dampener for equity shareholders who take inherent risks while investing, says Hitesh D Gajaria, partner and head of tax, KPMG in India.
'India is the number one IT destination in the world as we have the largest number of IT professionals in the world.'
While Indian IT has known what is coming and has a strategy ready to combat it, the same can't be said about the country and the government.
Sasha Mirchandani's tryst with investing began when his own venture failed to seek funding in early 2000s.
The 'Make in India' vision cannot survive in the long-term without concrete measures to build a concurrent 'Create in India' movement.
Education, jobs, health and more: Experts share their wishlist.
Happiest Minds expects revenue to touch $100 mn in 3 years, the fastest in India's tech services sector.
The original idea was to replace the existing schemes for scheduled castes and tribes.
'Breaking down silos and ensuring a more integrated governance process is just as important to performance.' 'It has been a major priority in the last six years, especially in national security,' External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar points out when delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture-2020: India and the Post-Covid World.
India Inc is encouraged by a determined Budget.
'If they are not ready for a 10 to 20 year journey, they should not become entrepreneurs.'
'Students tell me their parents are fine with them either joining a start up or even starting one. This was not the case 10 years ago.'
Venture capitalists are leveraging their experience to build something new.
'The Modi government needs some big private sector trophies to affirm its anti-corruption credentials before the polls.' 'So on whose neck will the sword fall next?' 'To that extent, the outing of the ICICI Bank-Videocon story is cathartic,' says Shekhar Gupta.
'Sundar Pichai is not only a great engineer but a good leader too'
A smartly executed reform-recap will be the best booster for the economy, says Ajay Chhibber.
'Our real future is the boy in the slum and the girl in the village.' 'We need to find the voices that can empower them to lead a better life,' TED Talks' Chris Anderson tells Niraj Bhatt.
Malini Agarwal reveals how she blogged her way to Bollywood, fame and success.
Starting up an independent business? Virender Kapoor has these words of advice for you.
Ritu Jha/Rediff.com reports from California on the largest TieCon ever.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's three-day visit to Britain has seen India and the UK agreeing on Rs 90,000 crore deals.
Three businessmen disclose their success mantras: One belongs to an old Marwari family, another is a second generation industrialist whose father scripted an amazing rags-to-riches story and the third was a professional till one day he succumbed to the charms of entrepreneurship.
When you say, Make in India, it means, Indians will work for you, but we should create our own brands and create a market for them internationally. Only then, money will come back to India.
'The quick fixes have failed; there is now no alternative to deeper reforms,' says Ajay Shah.