Stating that India is a strategic market for the company, Microsoft announced a $100,000 grant to promote innovation among domestic start-up companies.
Designing is another critical area for him, especially in the business of furniture.
During its summer placements in 2006, six start-up companies had visited the IIM-A campus for the first time, of which six students had interned with them.
GenNext Innovation Hub is also pursuing a new global partnership program to collaborate with organizations in US, Europe and Asia.
From fantasy to football, OTT is beaming with all kinds of goodies this week.
The tax forces young startups to part with a portion of the capital they have raised from investors due to disagreements over the valuation of the company by Income Tax officials.
Schmidt had a closed-door meeting with four start-ups in Bangalore.
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.
Serial entrepreneur Tarun Uppal reflects upon the mistakes and the lessons learned along the way.
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From an idea inititated in a hostel room, Hearing Plus went on to become a national chain of hearing treatment clinics.
At present,Satish Khanna he is associated with companies such as Fullife Healthcare, Kagashin, Hi Tech, Provivi, Status Quo and Concord.
India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
The traditional model of IT is being commoditised and players are losing margins. Industry needs to focus on innovation-based start-ups for next round of growth.
As with stocks, real estate and art, investing in start-ups has emerged as an asset class in itself.
Robotics start-ups in India are finally making their presence felt. Be it the education or industrial and commercial segments, these start-ups are standing up and getting noticed for their inventions.
'While every year presents new challenges, it also provides opportunities for better growth and performance.'
India ranks third among global startup ecosystems.
He underlined the need for industrial parks and white-collared environment
After selling out to Google, the 27-year-old has now turned into an angel investor.
Real time traffic updates and solutions to negotiate peak hour traffic with ease is what will make this start-up story a success, believe its co-founders.
Suchana Seth, the chief executive officer of an AI start-up arrested by Goa Police for allegedly killing her four-year-old son, was taken to the crime scene on Friday.
Jaitley assured that both the banking system and the government will make the resources available to them.
The government's Swachh Bharat programme presents entrepreneurs with a chance to curb open defecation and make money in the process.
The microfinance vertical of the bank will provide loans of Rs 80,000 to Rs 1,00,000.
Popular food delivery and restaurant aggregator company Zomato has decided that its newly introduced 'Pure Vegetarian' delivery fleet will continue to wear Zomato's trademark red instead of green as originally conceived by the delivery start-up.
Mass mobility in India is in a race when the light turns from yellow to green. Just that this moment has lasted three years. The renewed enthusiasm, however, indicates that the lights may finally be about to change, says Patanjali Pahwa.
An interview with Sridhar Ramaswamy,Senior vice-president, ads and commerce, Google.
Around 6,967 tech employees lost their jobs in Bengaluru, the highest among Indian cities, partially because of its evolution in recent years as a start-up hub.
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India plans IPO rule changes to lure homegrown start-ups.
Forbes India recently released the list of start-ups to watch out for in the year 2012. Read on to know the magazine's list of top 11 promising start-ups.
With the number of start-ups reaching the unicorn level falling drastically in 2023, the Hurun Unicorn Index said it has demoted eight gazelles - start-ups that were founded in 2000 and have the potential to go to unicorn in three years - to cheetahs.
Suchana Seth, the CEO of an AI start-up arrested for allegedly killing her four-year-old son, was quiet throughout her journey from Goa to Karnataka in a taxi, said the driver of the vehicle on Friday.
With its fleet of nearly 1,000 electric three-wheelers in Delhi-NCR, it moves around 100,000 commuters daily. The company will use the funding to rapidly increase its fleet size within Delhi-NCR as well as other key cities around the country.
In 2014, the country witnessed 800 new companies starting up, taking the total number of start-ups to 3,100, Nasscom said.
'There is little point in getting adoption without profit sustainability or the converse.' 'This is the dilemma that many Indian innovators face,' says R Gopalakrishnan.
Challenges notwithstanding, there are handful of players who continue to stand tall and scale-up their business. Many of these are taking inspiration from hyper-local grocery and food-delivery business to go full stack, says Sangeeta Tanwar.
Mukund Mohan, Microsoft Ventures India director, to head US, China, India operations.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a pitch for electing a strong and stable government in an uncertain world beset by geopolitical tensions as the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday released its manifesto, prioritising development and welfare while shunning populist measures and contentious issues like the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The govt could allow start-ups and e-commerce cos to appropriate initial brand building expenses over several years for accounting benefits
In Mumbai, Xenium, an interactive digital agency, is launching a VR lounge later this month.
