India's tech start-ups are following Silicon Valley's lead and embracing the "fail fast" culture.
Practising Indira Gandhi's brand of socialism today will not just be anachronistic but also economically harmful.
Winners were chosen from 200 applicants; made a pitch to 10 investors for Rs 10 lakh funding each against 8% equity.
Vijay Anand, vice president (new ventures), Rural Technology and Business Incubator, at IIT-Madras, is the man behind incubating new ideas for rural India.
Underscoring the need to boost the start-up ecosystem, the Reserve Bank on Tuesday said it will simplify rules and regulations which impede their growth and ensure that an entrepreneur does not have to run from "pillar to post" to start a business.
Rasna, which became a household name in the 80s and 90s and is still ruling the pre-mix market, is now looking at overseas franchise arrangements for manufacturing abroad. As part of the arrangement, the franchisee would invest in the plant and machinery and it would also take care of day-to-day operations. Rasna would supply the pre-mix, technical know-how and some financial support.
Hiring a legal expert will help you pre-empt crises and mitigate losses.
Saikat Ghosh, founder and CEO of Taskera says young entrepreneurs must be prepared to take risks and carve their own niche.
Though fundraisings for startups still rank amongst the biggest deals struck this year, the average ticket size has fallen sharply, says Una Galani.
Two empty bottles of a cough syrup were found in a Goa apartment, where a start-up CEO allegedly killed her minor son, indicating she may have given a heavy dose of the medicine to him in signs of a premeditated murder, even as she was subjected to psychological test to assess her mental state and help find the motive for the gruesome crime, the police said on Wednesday.
'There are multiple ups and downs.' 'You should be able to withstand all that.' 'You need to have the temperament to run a marathon.'
Of the first 189 whose credentials have been probed from the 400 applicants till date, barely 30 make it - and only one qualifies for IPR benefits.
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Working for a start-up is not the career suicide it is made out to be. It is, rather, professionally and personally very rewarding.
Every entrepreneur should accept these truths before taking the plunge
The survey was conducted by Bengaluru-based start-up MyNoticePeriod.com.
The joint venture will look at long-term, patient investments on solutions that don't lend to an IPO or exit on valuation basis.
If you don't design a winning culture, a culture will get created by default. And, most often than not, it's not pretty, says well-known Indian American venture capitalist, Desh Deshpande.
The final guidelines should be there in 3-4 months.
'We look at the opportunities that are going to come in various fields in the next 5 to 10 years, do some research and come up with business plans.' 'Then, we go and seek out founders who will run the actual business.'
Interestingly, the survey found that 70 per cent of the founders had experience working at multinational companies before starting on their own.
The eyewear market in India is worth $3 billion.
From fantasy to football, OTT is beaming with all kinds of goodies this week.
Modi will get the maximum chunk of the session time.
From defining job profiles to employee relations and grievance management, one cannot ignore the role of a human resource manager in a start-up, says Saurabh Deshpande
Anupam Pahuja, General Manager for Technology at PayPal Asia-Pacific in Singapore tells us what makes a successful start-up different from an average one.
'Everybody thought I was crazy to quit my job and jump into entrepreneurship.'
Every start-up's dream is to become a unicorn.
In India, where it is tougher to do business, a start-up gets established by the Series-B stage, and it gets expensive for investors.
'If you yourself don't believe in the product, you will never be able to sell it.' 'If you have got the basics right, if you have understood the consumer needs well, success will always follow.'
Will they catch the next Google and Apple at the right time?
'While every year presents new challenges, it also provides opportunities for better growth and performance.'
The lock-in would be for a period of six months.
Founders should have faith in themselves, their vision and their team, feels Infosys founder Narayana Murthy.
There's little interest in seed funding now as investors are finding it a risky proposition.
The estranged husband of Suchana Seth, the AI start up CEO accused of killing her four-year-old child, on Saturday told Goa police she had not allowed him to meet their child for the past five Sundays.
Amazon is working on deepening its engagement with young technology companies in the country.
Experts argue that the top two players in each category will receive funding sooner or later, but for laggards, the market is still challenging
Overall, it has projected a 10.3% salary rise for India Inc in 2016 compared to 10.6% in 2015.
Qualcomm, the global developer of wireless technologies and data solutions, will soon invest in Indian wireless communications and semiconductor start-up companies through its arm Qualcomm Ventures. It will focus on Indian start-ups and private companies that serve the mobile and semiconductor ecosystem in India through innovation in mobile application and platform software developers, semiconductor components, devices & service platforms & network infrastructure providers.
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