An online platform suits many new angel investors who are professionals with tech companies or start-up founders.
Fintech players are customising solutions for rural markets and helping SMEs learn how to use the services
Besides choosing the right tagline for your brand to making the most of the resources, start-ups must ensure that they customise their strategies from time to time.
Dubbed as Startup Act 3.0, the legislation would also enable such immigrant entrepreneurs by giving them permanent residency upon meeting certain requirements.
Credit Vidya helps lenders assess credit and fraud risk for thin-file and new-to-credit customers.
Deal values have been falling steadily since May this year, when it touched a high of $851 million.
The government must be the initial driver.
So far, VCs used to fund start-ups which either had product prototypes ready or had some customers on board.
Marketing challenges apart, 300 firms sprout in past 5 years in Tier-2, -3 cities.
Some real tips on how to make your disadvantage work for you and more importantly sell your start-up story well.
It's not bad to have obstacles. You just have to overcome them.
IT services firm Wipro has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-first ecosystem that will put the technology in every platform, tool, and solution it uses and offers to clients. Along with the launch of Wipro ai360, the company committed to invest $1 billion to advance AI capabilities in the next three years. Wipro ai360, fuelled by this new investment, will help in a new era of value, productivity, and commercial opportunities through the application of AI and generative AI, said the company.
'Our armed forces are prepared for any eventuality, and God forbid if the balloon goes up, people will get a bloody nose from us'
Renderlogy, an interior designing technology start-up, has a few initial hurdles to overcome before scaling and plunging into the larger market.
Alizeh demonstrates smarts as sharp as her cheekbones and a restless fire in her eyes raging to conquer the world.
The investor has now put together a fund of $3.75 billion to back private companies.
'A start-up with 100 people has reduced the strength to 60-80 people to reduce cost.' 'Even if there is attrition, they prefer not to replace them.'
Rediff.com India Ltd on Wednesday announced that it has invested an undisclosed sum in Vakow.com, a fast growing SMS content sharing social community started by IIT Bombay alumni Rahul Gupta and Amit Upadhyay.
'Those who want stability in life have started looking at opportunities outside of the start-up ecosystem.'
Running counter to the trend that low-income countries have low entrepreneurial expectations, China, the survey says, tops the entrepreneurial ambition list worldwide, ahead even of the US.
Investors spent much of 2016 cleaning house. And a VC tells Ranju Sarkar, "There's still some bad news left in the portfolios (of VC firms). What happens to Ola and Flipkart will drive sentiment in future."
Over 50 Indians in Forbes' under 30 list of super achievers.
'SBI Exclusif' and 'SBI InCube' were rolled out in Bengaluru.
Earlier, there was one giant in Finland, now, there are two - Nokia and Microsoft, said Alexander Stubb, Finland's minister of foreign trade.
Steve Case's book is filled with insightful scenes that describe how the modern online industry was put together, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Jim Rogers, Head of Marketing, Neustar Enterprise Services tells you how choosing the right address for your website can help improve traffic.
'Stay grounded; never try to become a star in the sky. There are many of those and chances are you'll get lost.' Lessons like these made Prem Jain, a serial entrepreneur, who sold his start-up for $863 million to Cisco and now serves as an advisor to its CEO John Chambers.
'We all work hard and save money, and later spent it in hospitals!'
'India's edtech and start-up story will be in danger.'
'When I was toying with 10 different ideas, my father was diagnosed with lung fibrosis and his condition deteriorated so badly that we lost him in six months. He was very unsatisfied with the lack of proper diagnosis.' 'It made me think will anyone do a biopsy if there is no symptom? Why is it that we do not have any non-invasive diagnostic method?' 'This idea was the strongest out of the ten, and with Snahlata Singh with her cancer biology background joining me, the idea got a real boost.'
Private Equity investments in start-ups accounted for 20 per cent of the overall PE investments in the country, which stood at $7.46 billion in 2006 (over 299 deals).
To further ensure employability of students, IITs are encouraging students to positively accept more number of pre-placement offers and not wait till final placement season
In India, he has already made investments in both his personal capacity and through DST Global, his venture firm.
While Emami is still struggling to push growth, given weak rural demand, the sale of the group's stake in AMRI Hospitals should ease investor concerns about stake pledges by promoters. It has also carried a series of stake acquisitions which should enable the expansion of its brand portfolio. The Q2 results are likely to see flat volumes and low revenue growth alongside some gross margin expansion.
Investments in 2015 reach a record high of $46.4 million with 193 deals.
Harvard graduate Rwitwika Bhattacharya's start-up Swaniti aims to bring a change in the country's political leadership. Read on to know how more about how the young brigade plans to do so in the next few years.
There are no great emotional highs or lows in Dono. It is just made up of little moments of normal interactions between young people, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Synergyse said by joining the Google Apps team, it can accelerate its mission because the company will be working closer with the teams that build Google Apps.
It quickly went from being a darling of investors to a liability
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