A company with a size exceeding $1 billion finds it really hard to innovate.
It is all about hitting the ball high and timing it right.
Retail giants are looking at Indian start-ups in the big data and analytics space
An entrepreneur must have the courage to act on great ideas and plans, says Satanik Roy.
Read on to know why and how these Indian entrepreneurs inspired readers and young start-ups.
About 80 per cent of the companies that are registered are essentially non-IT.
Reskilling and online certification are the biggest earners in the Indian online education market
Being a start-up backed by marquee funds will no longer be enough to seek a placement slot at the Indian Institutes of Technology.
Edtech company Byju's, which was once India's most valuable start-up worth an estimated $22 billion, will face insolvency proceedings for failure to pay Rs 158.9 crore to cricket board BCCI. The Bengaluru bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Tuesday allowed bankruptcy proceedings against the firm and appointed an interim resolution professional, suspending the company's board of directors and freezing its assets.
Why top executives are trading cushy jobs for start-ups
While the redeployment of talent from companies that have shut down into other start-ups is a great move, some say the gesture is gaining more visibility than the actual companies
'The noise that we are hearing is because the five big IT players are not hiring significantly.'
In first major growth in 5 years, 2,000 advertisers were added in Jan-Sep 2015.
Stating that India is a strategic market for the company, Microsoft announced a $100,000 grant to promote innovation among domestic start-up companies.
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.
Indian IT-BPM industry raked in revenues of $119 bn in 2014-15.
Flipkart's appointment of Kalyan Krishnamurthy as CEO and Ola's choice of PepsiCo's Vishal Kaul for COO speaks to the growing trend of bringing in experienced professionals to run business. Karan Choudhury reports.
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.
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.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the India-US Startup Konnect and share his vision on 'Start up India, Stand up India' as part of his US visit later this month.
'Today's engineering graduates have to learn the skills to solve problems which is actually a higher order skill.'
Designing is another critical area for him, especially in the business of furniture.
Schmidt had a closed-door meeting with four start-ups in Bangalore.
GenNext Innovation Hub is also pursuing a new global partnership program to collaborate with organizations in US, Europe and Asia.
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.
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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.
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.
Serial entrepreneur Tarun Uppal reflects upon the mistakes and the lessons learned along the way.
India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
As with stocks, real estate and art, investing in start-ups has emerged as an asset class in itself.
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.
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.
India ranks third among global startup ecosystems.
After selling out to Google, the 27-year-old has now turned into an angel investor.
The government's Swachh Bharat programme presents entrepreneurs with a chance to curb open defecation and make money in the process.
An interview with Sridhar Ramaswamy,Senior vice-president, ads and commerce, Google.
He underlined the need for industrial parks and white-collared environment
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.
