Vijay Anand, vice president (new ventures), Rural Technology and Business Incubator, at IIT-Madras, is the man behind incubating new ideas for rural India.
'Even if you are aping the West, if you customise the idea for the Indian market, localise it based on the Indian ethos, it will succeed.'
Perhaps, the most misunderstood aspect is the role of the state.
India's tech start-ups are following Silicon Valley's lead and embracing the "fail fast" culture.
Amid oxygen shortage and a faltering health system in the country, India is seeing over 300,000 cases daily.
Vetting by inter-ministerial board removed for benefits under Startup India Action Plan
John Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco, can talk about new age technology, artificial intelligence and crickets - insects being used as super food - all in the same breath.
Out of 24,230 IIT and NIT grads, about 8,000 students didn't find any takers during campus placement drives this year.
Presenting a list of the most trending jobs in the start-up world.
Though fundraisings for startups still rank amongst the biggest deals struck this year, the average ticket size has fallen sharply, says Una Galani.
Eruditus runs on a partnership model with top global universities such as MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, and UC Berkeley, offering courses in coding, data science, fintech, block chain, and entrepreneurship.
Start-ups that did not have a business model and, hence, could not grow or attract new funding, are shutting shop.
Various start-ups have raised concerns on notices sent to them under the Section 56 of Income Tax Act to pay taxes on angel funds received by them.
Here stood a man who embodied the legacy of whatever Brand Tata stood for, embellished it, and departed into the long night, leaving the brand legacy for others to further enrich, notes R Gopalakrishnan.
India's premier defence research organisation DRDO has awarded seven new projects to private entities to develop key military assets including underwater launched unmanned aerial vehicle and long-range remotely operated systems.
Also, a dedicated cell, headed by a member of the Central Board for Direct Taxes (CBDT), will be set up to address concerns faced by start-ups.
Investing in start-ups can be highly rewarding, but direct investing is not meant for everyone. For the majority of wealthy investors, taking the private-equity route could still be the better option.
According to experts, this will have major impact on new investments by Chinese players in companies, such as Paytm, Ola, BigBasket, Byju's, Dream11, MakeMyTrip, and Swiggy, when they go for follow-up funding. Chinese investors, such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi, are active in the Indian start-up space, and have collectively invested billions of dollars.
Founded in 2015, Meesho is one of the country's fastest growing social commerce platforms, and provides small and independent entrepreneurs with products and tools to start, maintain, and grow their businesses. Facebook's interest in the digital commerce follows Reliance Industries' entry into the hybrid e-commerce ecosystem.
Business chambers now inviting start-ups for membership.
The $306-million investment in Ola Electric Mobility by SoftBank Corp, Arun Sarin Family, Ratan Tata and Matrix has been the biggest funding in this space in value terms this year.
Budget 2016 may hold some answers to start-up cooncerns.
To promote entrepreneurship in India's tier-II and tier-III cities, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Gururaj 'Desh' Deshpande's Deshpande Foundation will open the sandbox in Hubballi. Alnoor Peermohamed reports.
A single security lapse could lead to complete wipe out of your crypto assets in seconds, with no recovery in sight, warns Nikhil Sethi.
There seems to be no dearth of funds to fuel this growth, report Peerzada Abrar and Shivani Shinde.
'Our brothers and sisters are headed to Paris, hungry for medals. A billion of us will be watching them nervous and excited as our athletes set foot in the tracks and fields and courts and rings.'
Close to 9,000 start-ups are currently banking with HDFC Bank and it has the bank now dedicated SmartUp zones in 70 branches in 30 cities across India.
Let start-ups be start-ups until they become grown-ups, let young entrepreneurs be experimental and bold, let VCs do their job, but for God's sake, the nation must prime the real grown-ups to solve the imminent issues., says R Gopalakrishnan.
To resolve the so-called 'angel tax' issue, the start-ups and their investors who file requisite declarations and provide information in their returns will not be subjected to any kind of scrutiny in respect of valuations of share premiums, she said.
India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
'We started AgniKul to show that space transportation should be as simple as road transportation.'
In first major growth in 5 years, 2,000 advertisers were added in Jan-Sep 2015.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at the India Mobile Congress in New Delhi on Friday reeled out statistics to show how India has turned into an exporter of mobile phones from being an importer and how big tech companies -- from Apple to Google -- are lining up to become manufacturers in the country. He said after the fastest rollout of 5G mobile telephony services, India will lead the world on 6G. Recalling the launch of 5G technology in the country on October 1, 2022, he remarked that within a year there are about 5 lakh 5G base stations across the country.
India-France synergy is poised to open vistas of collaboration between the two countries, notes Rup Narayan Das.
The criteria for allowing companies to avail of this provision will include profitability, networth, paid-up capital, and turnover.
Indian IT-BPM industry raked in revenues of $119 bn in 2014-15.
Think organic food, affordable homes, artificial intelligence, suggests Prof Manmeet Barve.
Bajaj sold his 18-month-old start-up WhiteHat Jr to Byju Raveendran for $300 million in an all-cash deal - over the video conferencing platform Zoom. The deal is the biggest in the Indian edtech sector by far.
Robotics start-ups in India are finally making their presence felt. Be it the education or industrial and commercial segments, these start-ups are standing up and getting noticed for their inventions.
India ranks third among global startup ecosystems.
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