Meet Madan Padaki, the man behind MeritTrac, an online assessment company, which won the latest Nasscom Innovation Award.
TIE ISB Connect '08, organised by the TiE, Hyderabad Chapter and the Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED), ISB, will be held this year on November 5-7 at the ISB Campus in Hyderabad.
Team Amazon would also educate and train the khadi artisans to directly sell their products to online customers.
The sixth and last excerpt from Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, the story of 25 IIM Ahmedabad graduates who chose the rough road of entrepreneurship.
The fifth excerpt from Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, the story of 25 IIM Ahmedabad graduates who chose the rough road of entrepreneurship.
Piyush Shah of the Indian Angel Network believes that until you are convinced an idea must be executed, it's hard to convince others and such a venture is likely to fail.
The third excerpt from Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, the story of 25 IIM Ahmedabad graduates who chose the rough road of entrepreneurship.
The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation and The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), have opened nominations for India's 'Social Entrepren
You can be an entrepreneur if you can answer 'yes' to most of the questions below.
Patrick Turner, Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD, offers some solid advice to budding entrepreneurs.
The Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi, invites applications for its two-year full time Post-graduate Programme in Management 2007-2009.
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.
GSVC allows young entrepreneurs to showcase their business models and possibly win a trip to America!
The government is replacing every worn stone with interlocking tiles and new pavements and flower beds are being laid. Roads that needed repairs for months are being resurfaced. In addition to this, walls along the roads are being painted in beautiful hues and the famous Char Minar is also undergoing renovation.
Sanjay Purohit, associate vice president & head, corporate planning, Infosys Technologies Ltd, talks about the role played by his company to encourage social entrepreneurship in India and how this initiative is gaining momentum within the company.
The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) and Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM), for instance, recently introduced an initiative -- the Deferred Placement Programme (DPP) -- to provide a safety net to students willing to take up the challenges of entrepreneurship. Under this programme, students interested in starting entrepreneurial ventures will be allowed to push back their participation in campus placements for a maximum period of two years.
Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata will inaugurate a two-day national summit on Corporate Social Responsibility in Chennai beginning from June 14.
The Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi, invites applications for its Post-graduate Programme in Management.
Here are some simple steps that most professionals can take, which would work out to be a stepping stone for your future start-ups.
Gujaratis and Malyalis share business ties in spices, coir yarn and coconut oil for centuries.
A meeting with Tarun Khanna, who writes about entrepreneurship, globalisation and mutual ignorance in China and India.
Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, invites applications for its All India Entrance Test for admission to its management courses.
The event is being organised jointly by the Indian Institute of Science Alumni Association of North America, Pan-IIT, India Community Center and TiE Silicon Valley.
The second excerpt from Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, the story of 25 IIM Ahmedabad graduates who chose the rough road of entrepreneurship.
In difficult times when you are short of means to pay for your credit card bills, paying minimum gives you a breather. However, it may not save you from finding a concrete solution for paying your credit card debt.
What should be the ideal strategy for these final month? Read on.
Unlike most diets, the economists' regimen is based on more than just counting calories, reducing fat intake or eating specific food combinations, according to Prof Crowson.
So what constitutes your 'must do' list? Let's ask a few fundamental questions.
Who would've thought the bland boring dish could help start a successful business venture?
Entrepreneurship is about confronting brutal realities of life where you have to take the risk on a daily basis.
Reforms started by Manmohan Singh in 1991 concentrated on things that would help large firms in the private sector. But these moves did not help the poor, says author Rafiq Dossani.
TiE-Hyderabad Chapter and Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Indian School of Business, invites entrepreneurs and investors to attend TiE-ISB Connect 2006.
Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata has been given honorary fellowship of the London School of Economics and Political Science for his contribution to the global industry.
Tata has invested in over 10 start-ups in personal capacity.
The portfolios were cleared by Congress president Rahul Gandhi as the exercise had turned out to be tricky for the party state leaders.
Ranjit Shastri, an active member of the Indian Angel Network and co-founder of PSi Inc, shares tips on how the young should learn the entrepreneurial zeal. He talks on how to get started, maintaining and nurturing a start up and then moving on.
'I will be researching the successful business models that have emerged from the rapid industrialisation of India's economy and its effects within Indian society. In addition, I will be examining the entrepreneurship process within India and future opportunities for entrepreneurs in India.'
'In any business you have to achieve short-term goals.' 'But at the same time you have to keep your broader perspective long term.' 'It is good for business survival.'
This is the fifth centre to be established at the ISB. The school has already set up four such centres in the areas of entrepreneurship, finance, logistics & manufacturing, and IT.
Social entrepreneurship is a marriage between effective business techniques and social good. It is something that Mahatma Gandhi pioneered, Uday Khemka tells Business Standard.
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