India is the next major breeding ground for start-ups.
Presenting a list of the brightest and most promising companies from India that made it to TechSparks 2013, a technology product recognition platform.
'Today's engineering graduates have to learn the skills to solve problems which is actually a higher order skill.'
How about working for a company without pay just to learn various skills?
Menlo Park Mayor Catherine Carlton is leading a 3-member team to Kerala.
What would you rather be -- a clerk at work or a contributing member of a project?
The internship, with all its highs and lows, changed the way that I deal with life now.
Vijay Anand, vice president (new ventures), Rural Technology and Business Incubator, at IIT-Madras, is the man behind incubating new ideas for rural India.
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.
'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.
With future prospects being difficult to predict, hiring for a short period is proving to be cost-effective
India's tech start-ups are following Silicon Valley's lead and embracing the "fail fast" culture.
Saikat Ghosh, founder and CEO of Taskera says young entrepreneurs must be prepared to take risks and carve their own niche.
Winners were chosen from 200 applicants; made a pitch to 10 investors for Rs 10 lakh funding each against 8% equity.
Practising Indira Gandhi's brand of socialism today will not just be anachronistic but also economically harmful.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Sunday urged Indian startups to keep their valuation "realistic" and distinguish between the goals of the organisation and its founder. "Startups may strive for long-term value creation rather than short-term valuations. "The valuations of businesses should be kept as realistic as possible," CII said in its Corporate Governance Charter for Startups.
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.
Hiring a legal expert will help you pre-empt crises and mitigate losses.
Though fundraisings for startups still rank amongst the biggest deals struck this year, the average ticket size has fallen sharply, says Una Galani.
Every entrepreneur should accept these truths before taking the plunge
Suchana Seth, CEO of an AI start-up accused of killing her four-year-old son, did not show any signs of mental disorder or psychotic behaviour during a medical examination, the police told a court in Panaji on Tuesday.
Working for a start-up is not the career suicide it is made out to be. It is, rather, professionally and personally very rewarding.
Here's how to know if you're on to something huge, or it is just a mirage. Read on...
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.
These companies were identified through the India Innovation Growth Programme, an innovation contest through which the US firm identifies Indian research and development potential.
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.
The final guidelines should be there in 3-4 months.
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.
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.
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
Interestingly, the survey found that 70 per cent of the founders had experience working at multinational companies before starting on their own.
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.
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.
The eyewear market in India is worth $3 billion.
Modi will get the maximum chunk of the session time.
Will they catch the next Google and Apple at the right 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.
'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.'
