Led by a new generation of entrepreneurs, India's family offices are shifting from traditional investments in physical and tangible assets like real estate to investing in technology, healthcare, and retail stocks. This new wave of family offices is engaging in stock market investments, including pre-IPO placements and secondary market operations. "Born into a world of technology, the next generation, especially those born after 2000, view technology as equally crucial as finance for running a business.
Even retail investors are talking about investing in start-ups.
'The jungles of Doda covers about 250 km.' 'Sleeper cells are providing active help to the terrorists.' 'The terrain and situation is such that it is not possible to keep track of every inch.'
The way to succeed for any new start-up company in the IT services field is to focus on niche areas or small verticals and doing some unusual things, N R Narayana Murthy, chief mentor of Infosys told reporters.
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Start-ups that did not have a business model and, hence, could not grow or attract new funding, are shutting shop.
Ratan Tata invested about $299,000 during the first six months of 2016.
After the Google investment, the company's monthly transactions have spiralled up from 65,000 to nearly one million in just a year. According to reports, the start-up is in fresh talks to raise about $6 million from investors, including Google, says Samreen Ahmad.
S D Shibulal, former chief executive and managing director of Infosys, has joined the ranks of the company's other founders in nurturing start-ups.
Nilekani also said that many start-ups would not succeed but entrepreneurs gain tremendous experience and can to go to another start-up
Sequoia Capital might emerge as leading global investor in start-up space in the country, as funds from other sources dry up.
Recently, he had surprised many by talking of net neutrality
While some of these habits may work at the early stage, for those thinking of scaling up, these very attributes may bring your start-up down.
ShopX offers a wide range of products like clothes, electronics, furniture and services such as direct-to-home and mobile recharges.
The policy aims to create around 5,000 startups, including 10 global high-growth startups, and to create a minimum of 100,000 high skilled job creation, direct and indirect, in the startup ecosystem by 2023.
The company has been developing donor-derived stem cell platforms.
IT body Nasscom has helped four start-ups raise funding of Rs 40 lakh as part of its programme to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into successful businesses.
With time the start-up action plan will need to be tweaked and will need to move in the direction of removing both hurdles and privileges.
The nature of the entity you choose for your business, how you structure its legal form, how conducive you make it to receive funding, compliance with statutes from the outset, are all vital parameters that a good lawyer can lend you his experience with.
A growing start-up must provide freedom to employees and have the heart to understand their priorities objectively.
A start-up gets the Microsoft suite of tools and technologies free for three years, as well as access to funding of up to Rs 25 crore by IDG Ventures, officials of two entities said. The programme is open to technology companies that are less than three years old with annual revenues that are less than Rs 5 crore.
For the new millennium generation, slowly and at an accelerating pace, it is attractive to harbour a start-up ambition, says R Gopalakrishnan.
Many Indian start-ups are doling out handsome pay packets, with junior level employees getting not less than Rs 5 lakh a year besides providing flexible work timings.
From teaching to YouTube, these ideas will help students chase their dreams early on.
An initiative of Nandan Nilekani's EkStep Foundation, people+ai on Tuesday unveiled its vision for the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India, dubbed 'Adbhut India' (Amazing India). It aims to harness AI as a powerful tool to enhance the lives of all Indians. The event marked the rollout of several initiatives by people+ai that are focused on discovering, demonstrating, and disseminating population-scale AI use cases for India.
Tata Trusts is one of India's oldest, non-sectarian philanthropic organisations involved in areas of community development.
'Digital India is the biggest experiment that will transform India if Modi gets it right.'
The whole game is about 'who wants who' more desperately?
They are not only coming up with whacky names to grab attention but are also stretching the definition of e-commerce.
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.
From designing web applications, brand building, online recruitment to starting tele-classrooms, they have made it click!
A start-up that just focuses on discounting for growth without a balancing effort towards product will soon find itself riding a tiger that's impossible to get off from.
The firm now has employee strength of 344,691.
No longer an in-house task; hiring legal eagles is now becoming norm for M&As, fundraising
They encouraged start-ups to pay for acquiring customers rather than focusing on the business fundamentals.
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How do you balance the demands of an expanding business with the desire to retain the culture that made you successful?
Dayakar Pushkoor, founder partner of Naya Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm, lists what young aspiring entrepreneurs should know and do before they start-up and how they can raise money from VCs.
