Paul Singh, partner at 500 startups tells us what he dislikes about Indian entrepreneurs and their way of fuctioning.
In a unique honour, the Nottingham City will confer the title 'Freeman of the City' on an Indian-origin entrepreneur Professor Nathu Ram Puri, the first for an Asian, in recognition of his "distinguished services" to the British city.
'The expeditious enactment of labour codes and strategic measures to bridge the skills jobs gap are critical.'
Every year Fortune honours 10 innovators, groundbreakers and game changers as 'Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs'.
Interestingly, the survey found that 70 per cent of the founders had experience working at multinational companies before starting on their own.
Samiksha is a carbon copy of her sister, actor Bhumi Pednekar.
With a sleek new school in Haryana, Virender Sehwag starts his new innings as an education entrepreneur.
Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy is among the 12 "greatest entrepreneurs of our time" according to a Fortue magazine list that is topped by Apple's late chief Steve Jobs.
Want to be an entrepreneur and don't know where and how to start? Here, Prof Dhargalkar head of InnoWE, the Entrepreneurship Cell of Welingkar Institute from Mumbai lists the 10 things an aspiring entrepreneur must do.
The National SC/ST Hub, under the micro, small and medium enterprises ministry, with an initial outlay of Rs 490 crore, will work towards strengthening market access/linkage, monitoring, capacity building, leveraging financial support schemes and sharing industry-best practices.
Recessions can inspire great entrepreneurial achievement. Here are some examples from the last 200 years.
Buys team in electric powerboat series.
'If there was ever a time to start up, it is the NOW and HERE!'
Over 200 successful IITians will launch an unique 'Entrepreneurship Movement' on the Republic Day in 16 citiies across the country to coach 1,000 budding entrepreneurs.
The programme, which aims to fulfil the requirements of a new generation of entrepreneurs and family businesses, is jointly offered by IIM-B and U21 Global. They now aim to take the programme abroad, offering it to non-resident Indians in south east Asia and West Asia.
Is India headed there again? questions Ajit Balakrishnan
Too often the right people try to become social entrepreneurs for the wrong reasons.
Indian family-run business houses have in recent years seen ugly public spats between owners over control. But metals-to-ports conglomerate Essar's Ruia family seems to be an exception. Three generations of the Ruia family - founder brother Shashi and Ravi Ruia, their children and grandchildren - continue to live under one roof and jointly run the business empire.
How do you avoid being laid off? If you have been let go, what should you do next? Ask rediff Career Gurus to find out.
B-schools should try and add skills in their students through some practical experiences and lessons in superior execution and in establishing methodologies on identifying ideas that can provide value to customers and hence make a business successful.
Farhang has alleged that IIT-K breached a 2003 contract it signed with her and her affiliate MA Mobile Limited by allegedly passing the technology, relating to a new platform for mobile computing, to others.
Find out how Abin Jose founded a web solutions start-up and made it successful
Gaurav Bhushan Sharma, an alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad is a busy entrepreneur these days. His one year old start up C2B Consulting, which is primarily a crowd-sourced strategy consulting firm today employs young graduates and aims to cater to the SME (small to medium enterprises) segment of the market. On our request, he shares his journey and tells us how his life changed after one CAT exam.
Startup founders need to sit up and think about how not to take stardom for granted and how not to disappoint their fans who have stood in long queues for those precious selfies with popular entrepreneurs, notes Nivedita Mookerji.
Consultancy Services CEO S Ramadorai was named Manager Entrepreneur of the Year.
Not all B-school graduates are queuing up for fat-cat salaries this placement season.
With the reality of coalition politics staring the BJP in its face, this was inevitable, points out Ramesh Menon.
'When I was toying with 10 different ideas, my father was diagnosed with lung fibrosis and his condition deteriorated so badly that we lost him in six months. He was very unsatisfied with the lack of proper diagnosis.' 'It made me think will anyone do a biopsy if there is no symptom? Why is it that we do not have any non-invasive diagnostic method?' 'This idea was the strongest out of the ten, and with Snahlata Singh with her cancer biology background joining me, the idea got a real boost.'
'We want to prove to the world that they will get the best code written from a small place like Wayanad.'
India is not reaping the benefits of demographic dividends, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan said on Tuesday, emphasising that there is a need to focus on improving the human capital and enhancing their skill sets. "I think we are in the midst of it (demographic dividend), but the problem is we are not reaping the benefits," Rajan said at a conference on "Making India an Advanced Economy by 2047: What Will it Take" at the George Washington University in Washington DC. "That's why I said 6 per cent growth.
The focus at TiE, Hyderabad is to nurture and guide the next generation of business leaders. Our objective is to showcase the TiE-ISB Connect as the most preferred hub of all innovative entrepreneurial activity.
Meet 64-year-old Dr Sekhar Raghavan, an extraordinary social entrepreneur who has made 'saving water' the mission of his life.
The Indian School of Business in Hyderabad is offering free management education to women entrepreneurs.
Vivek Ramaswamy, who dropped out of the race to win the Republican nomination for this November's US presidential election after polling a pathetic 8% in the Iowa caucus, has already begun schmoozing the famously amenable to flattery Donald J Trump.
BusinessWeek.com's annual competition finds a thriving startup culture in the region.
Naveen Selvadurai, 28, co-founder of social networking app 'Foursquare', 26-year old Vikas Reddy who co-founded technology start-up 'Occipital', Sachin Agarwal, 30 of San Francisco-based start up 'Posterous' and 22-year old Stanford graduate Ooshma Garg have been named in the '30 under 30' 2010 list of 'America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs' by the New York based magazine.
Meet the youngsters who rule India's social media.
Craig Wright identified himself as Satoshi Nakamato, the pseudonym he says he created when launching the currency in 2009.
An eight-member jury, chaired by M Damodaran, the former chairman of Sebi, IDBI and UTI, nominated the finalists who will be felicitated on February 7.
