Morgan Stanley writing down its investment in the e-commerce leader by 27 per cent does not augur well for the sector.
Speed-job dating is becoming popular among job-seekers and employers.
'Some of these companies are India focused, some are overseas focused and some companies are focused on both.' Ritu Jha/Rediff.com reports from California.
An average team even with a great idea can spell the death of a start-up.
'Once I was ready with my product I started looking for funding and realised people would not understand how a woman could, without a technology or an IIT/M background, be running the business alone.' 'Today when I connect the dots I feel grateful about how I have been able to overcome and learn with every failure.'
'Expectations were being built up about radical moves and the action plan did not disappoint.'
Zerodha and True Beacon co-founder Nikhil Kamath, along with Abhijeet Pai, has invested in Omnipresent Robot Tech through their investment arm Gruhas Proptech. This round also saw co-investments from Kavin Shah, and other individual high networth individual (HNIs), according to a statement released on Thursday. However, the amount invested by Kamath and Pai has not been disclosed.
Qualcomm has been playing a key role driving India's wireless revolution
While a three-year tax holiday and relaxation of capital gains for funds have been received favourably, others argue that not enough has been announced.
Khosla said 85 per cent of Indian e-commerce firms were over-valued.
Start-up entrepreneur Shradha Sharma charts out five sureshot ways to start-up success.
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Interning with a big brand allows you to interact with experienced professionals from different departments of the company.
Bags long-term outsourcing deal from Allied Irish Banks
As the deadly second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, startups and technology firms are realising the burnout effect it is having on employees. Many have shortened their work weeks to four days, while others have made provisions for more time off for employees to help them rejuvenate or care for loved ones.
The setting up of STEAG is part of the Army's efforts to develop technologies considering the future battlefield, they said.
These incubators, realising the importance of the intervention, have stepped in to develop and launch new ventures in the country.
India's first angel-backed start-up accelerator VentureNursery will train them intensely for 13 weeks after which they will get to pitch for seed funding.
'We want to prove to the world that they will get the best code written from a small place like Wayanad.'
India needs to grow at an annual rate of 9-10 per cent for around three decades and constant innovations to become a $35 trillion economy by 2047, India's G-20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Sunday. "We are the fifth largest economy in the world and by 2027 we will surpass Japan and Germany to become the third largest economy in the world. "And our aim is that by the time we turn 100 in 2047, India should be a $35 trillion economy," Kant said while addressing a session at Mumbai Tech Week (MTW) hosted by Tech Entrepreneurs Association Mumbai (TEAM).
The idea is to create a start-up-like activity with a small business unit.
One of the reasons behind the changing trend is that the applicants are spoiled for choice
'In certain sectors we want to become catalysts, in others we want to encourage.' S D Shibulal discusses Axilor Ventures with Ayan Pramanik and Raghu Krishnan.
Bringing in people with large corporate experience also helps in bringing in world class processes in quality and compliance
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.
Six decades and more later, we are now captives of our identities. Every poll is based on elaborate calculations of electability of candidates on the basis of their castes and other narrow definers. That, along with voter promiscuity, is what defines our political culture, which remains stubbornly resistant to any change, asserts Shreekant Sambrani.
How about working for a company without pay just to learn various skills?
With future prospects being difficult to predict, hiring for a short period is proving to be cost-effective
The proposals cleared by the DAC include new-generation anti-tank mines, air defence tactical control radar, heavy-weight torpedoes, medium-range maritime reconnaissance and multi-mission maritime aircraft, flight refueller aircraft and software-defined radios.
India is the next major breeding ground for start-ups.
Kirani, is passionate about working with start-ups when they are at the ideation stage.
The internship, with all its highs and lows, changed the way that I deal with life now.
What would you rather be -- a clerk at work or a contributing member of a project?
Reliance Industries Ltd invested over $125 billion in the last ten years as it undertook massive expansion in hydrocarbon and telecom businesses, a report said, estimating that the conglomerate's investments in the next three years would be in relatively less capex-heavy retail and upstream new energy. Reliance is coming out of a series of long and intensive capex cycles (hydrocarbons and telecom).
Talvinder Singh, founder of Tushy.com, an online marketplace lists out seven key tips for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Menlo Park Mayor Catherine Carlton is leading a 3-member team to Kerala.
These companies were identified through the India Innovation Growth Programme, an innovation contest through which the US firm identifies Indian research and development potential.
Presenting a list of the brightest and most promising companies from India that made it to TechSparks 2013, a technology product recognition platform.
'You have to have commitment to both, but it has to be done at the individual level.'
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