Vijay Anand, vice president (new ventures), Rural Technology and Business Incubator, at IIT-Madras, is the man behind incubating new ideas for rural India.
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.
The Goa police would on Friday take Suchana Seth, the CEO of a start-up who is accused of killing her four-year-old child, to the service apartment where she had stayed to recreate the crime scene, a senior official said.
These companies were identified through the India Innovation Growth Programme, an innovation contest through which the US firm identifies Indian research and development potential.
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.
Saikat Ghosh, founder and CEO of Taskera says young entrepreneurs must be prepared to take risks and carve their own niche.
Hiring a legal expert will help you pre-empt crises and mitigate losses.
Zerodha co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath on Monday disclosed that he suffered a "mild stroke" six weeks ago. "Around 6 weeks ago, I had a mild stroke out of the blue. "Dad passing away, poor sleep, exhaustion, dehydration, and overworking out -- any of these could be possible reasons," he revealed in a post on X.
Though fundraisings for startups still rank amongst the biggest deals struck this year, the average ticket size has fallen sharply, says Una Galani.
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.
'I tell those in their 20s that age is on their side and they should start exercising early.' 'Just like investing in good stocks, if they start early, they will get the multiplier effects of being healthy, fit and strong later in life.'
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.
Rajkummar Rao does the best with what he is given and he ably elevates the generic story-telling. Too bad that his performance remains the only takeaway from such an inspiring real-life story, notes Mayur Sanap.
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 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.
Modi will get the maximum chunk of the session time.
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.
Every start-up's dream is to become a unicorn.
Will they catch the next Google and Apple at the right time?
'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.'
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 setting up of STEAG is part of the Army's efforts to develop technologies considering the future battlefield, they said.
Amazon is working on deepening its engagement with young technology companies in the country.
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).
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.
Overall, it has projected a 10.3% salary rise for India Inc in 2016 compared to 10.6% in 2015.
'You have to have commitment to both, but it has to be done at the individual level.'
20 start-ups that beat decades old companies in valuations.
The Tata group is planning a big splash.
