Most of the unicorns or billion-dollar valuation firms including Flipkart, Paytm and Ola have had the maximum stakes owned by foreign funds. The founders of all these firms have either single digit stakes in their companies or in low double digits.
Ambee, an Ambulance-hailing app, is set for commercial rollout. Sharath Chowdary profiles the Uber-backed firm that aims to bring online 50% of ambulances across 60 Indian cities over 5 years.
What is worrying is that this year, angel investments and seed funding deals have fallen by 40 per cent, ringing alarm bells in the start-up community in India.
Nearly, 40 per cent of Fortune 500 companies have been founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Uber will provide mentorship for start-ups on matters such as funding, marketing, operations and scalability.
Global investment is agnostic when it comes to nationalism, says Kanika Datta.
The new entrants are young, enterprising Chinese men and women who want to tap into the promising Indian market.
Recently, e-commerce firms have been under the lens for tax violation.
'Our liquidity is strong for the next 15-20 days.' 'But if the situation worsens drastically, then we will have to think about laying off people.'
The online strategy cuts down on marketing and distribution costs, allowing Xiaomi to sell feature-rich phones at low prices.
The PM will pay a two-day visit to Japan from October 28-29 to hold the annual India-Japan summit with Abe. The focus of the visit will be to further expand cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, carry out joint infrastructure projects in third countries and further boost ties key sectors like defence and trade.
'Their dharma propels them to pay their workers; otherwise, they know the boys would starve.' 'At the same time they will not allow their business to suffer,' observes Dr Sudhir Bisht.
They were the source for entry-level recruitments in the IT industry before the job market crash.
There is a new energy in 2015 and a new breed of young, ambitious innovators and entrepreneurs who are coming up with creative solutions to many of India's problems, says Mallika Kapur.
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.
"AAP has done a fabulous job highlighting corruption and governance issues and have a good platform for that, but their economic platform is very scary," Venktesh Shukla, president, The Indus Entrepreneurs Silicon Valley, the largest TiE chapter, told Rediff.com. "Valley investors are watching India minutely; the next few months are very crucial for Silicon Valley investors."
ZipDial has recently been acquired by Twitter.
HR experts believe however that times are changing and more and more companies are planning a revamp of their appraisal systems
'They don't always agree with our governments, their teachers or their parents, but it is the conviction of their ideas, and their determination to share them with the world that, I believe, is one of the greatest sources of hope for our planet.' 'The colonisation of space, understanding the very building blocks of matter and the universe, utilising our understanding of the human genome to conquer disease -- these are the tasks waiting for a fellowship of minds to realise new triumphs in our collective destiny.'
The beauty queen turned actor talks about her new athleisure start-up.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the policy last month.
'Children should be brought up connected to our culture and should be introduced to characters from our mythologies. What is this Baa Baa Black Sheep?'
Business chambers now inviting start-ups for membership.
Corporates understand that the PMO drives all key decisions in this government.
The author meets the brains behind Unocoin, the first Indian Bitcoin exchange and merchant processor in India to have raised international funding.
With all the brouhaha over GST, and (often) a limited understanding of the long-term forces shaping India's logistics sector, companies seem to have omitted factoring in some underlying trends that could shape supply chain excellence, says Neelesh Mundra.
"I invite each one of you to become a partner in India's growth story. And once again assure you of our wholehearted support."
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
'Stumbling blocks teach a lot and should be taken as stepping stones.'
Twenty-five years on, Coca-Cola is involved in a new search. Arnab Dutta reports.
Ma and the other co-founders had finalised the name "Alibaba" after much research on its acceptability.
'Where will the next 200 million users that will come online in India prefer to go? Will they buy a data pack, or will they use the free Internet?' 'What will happen when most of the Internet in India is inside a walled garden?'
Tackling black money gets worst rating; Swachh Bharat, Digital India score poorly.
Raghu Krishnan profiles the man in the eye of the storm at Infosys.
Nikesh Arora has an engineering degree in electronics and worked for a brief period at Wipro, selling computers.
His mother was the first female engineer at Ford. His brother is a CNN icon. 'Do we want politicians or problem-solvers?' Suneel Gupta asks Pottayil Rajendran.
Dinesh Vazirani on how he built Saffronart into an institution.
Agri-enterprises are finding it hard to expand due to lack of commercial guidance.
'It is in electronics that the gap between where we are and where we need to be is most obvious and most persistent.' 'It is not only a national security issue, but also a commercial issue,' argues Rajeev Srinivasan.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Saturday attacked Rahul Gandhi after the Congress vice president questioned the NDA government's achievements, saying it was no mean feat that even the opposition has been unable to level any corruption charges against it.
