By Atul Raja When it comes to startups, partnerships are a great way to increase visibility, boost customer reach, and develop relationships and beneficial partnerships with key stakeholders in…
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A life-changing and fulfilling experience By Monica Mehta While India remains strongly entrenched as the third largest startup ecosystem in the world and added 1300 startups in 2019, the moot…
A driving force for the Indian economy and job creation By Atul Raja The fact that women entrepreneurs in India are a precious economic resource that is yet to be…
A trusted brand is the crucial difference between success and extraordinary success By Rohini Lodge So, you started a business. You have a great product, a great team, and you...
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By Arunabh Sinha Partly out of curiosity and partly to manage operating expenses, I have been personally managing our UClean customer delight WhatsApp myself ever since the lockdown. While it…
A team of believers who are wedded to the idea, who are unshakeable in their conviction of the vision and relentlessly pursue it. “It can get really lonely at the…
While there are no right or wrong answers to the ‘layoffs’ debate, is there a method to this madness? Is there a way to manage layoffs/furloughs with mitigated impact and…
As left-brain skills are getting automated, right-brained, creative, free-spirited millennials are rising beyond the suffocated security of 9-5 jobs. By Avelo Roy The digital economy is truly democratising fame, wealth…
The APIS Framework Addresses Demand Challenges By Arunabh Sinha Demand is the most fundamental premise on which any business is built. Whenever you embark on your entrepreneurship journey, the first…
The demanding math of venture capital (VC) with its relentless hunt for the next Unicorn are creating an imbalance in the entrepreneurial space. When the Ubers, Airbnb’s, BenevolentAI, Paytm’s, Flipkarts…
A small business owner in Jodhpur runs a furniture business founded by his father. His current turnover is INR 15Cr per annum from sales within India. While his goods have…
For a small business, access to affordable capital at the right time is essential to accelerate their growth journey. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) need funds to invest in technology,…
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are most crucial to India’s growth story. Employing about 106 million people – 40% of India’s workforce, 6% contribution to manufacturing GDP, and 6000+ products,…
It’s raining business conferences at this time of the year, and the NASSCOM Product Conclave is easily one of our favourites. They put out great content and curate an exciting…
Events are one of the best networking platforms to develop business relations and generate leads for business development. It is an equally potent tool for a start-up or an established…
Complying with various regulations in India haunts every startup. In general, compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy and standard or law. Regulatory compliance describes the…
“Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room”- Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon If you are a startup founder, it means that you have…
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is a great way to demonstrate and prove that prospective customers are now searching for your brand name which is a great thing. SEO efforts are…
I run a startup that provides fund-raising solutions to entrepreneurs, and a perplexing question that is often put across to me is – DEBT or EQUITY financing? Each time a…
The number of mobile internet users in India has reached 371 million by June 2016, and is on track to cross 500 million users by next year. The fast-growing internet penetration…
Setting up a manufacturing unit is almost like building your house, and if you are a first generation entrepreneur, it is going to be a truly challenging and equally intense…
Talk of innovation happening in the complex and nascent language services market and Reverie Language Technologies is certainly taking the lead. The Bangalore-based startup, which provides local language solutions for…
I love being an entrepreneur. I would like to challenge anyone to give up entrepreneurship as it’s next to impossible to do so. Entrepreneurship is like a heady, infinite feeling….
Aruj Garg, founder of Bhukkad, a chain of natural fast food joint, almost hit the wall in his entrepreneurial journey. Quick to realise his mistakes he was back on the…
Even though my tenure as an entrepreneur has been a short one, it seems that I have been an entrepreneur for long. The decision to quit a salaried life to…
In a free-wheeling chat, Arpita Ganesh, CEO and Founder, Buttercups, shares some real life and practical founder-friendly advice regarding mentorship.
“Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates. After the fact, one person may come to be recognized as “the innovator,”
Here are 9 Tips People in the startup world know that it is okay even if you are not able to bag the desired investment in initial attempts. However, it…
Samuel Morse, found his wife dead because the letter reached him a little too late, which was delivered by the slow-moving horse messengers of the day. He decided to find…
Culture is worth thinking about from the beginning as it is all that matters in a startup. Startup is more like a dream craft in which people board and culture…
Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google when they were 25, Apple’s founders’ Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were 21 and 26 respectively; Bill Gates was 20 and his co-founder…
Success or failure is often determined by how we perform during pressure situations. These tips to entrepreneurs & For a budding entrepreneur, this situation mostly involves pitching the startup/idea to…
Kirthana Ramarapu is the Master Franchise owner of ‘Kinderdance India’, Bangalore. ‘Women entrepreneurship’ is like a discipline for a child that begins at home. Women have been entrepreneurs in different…
Just a few days ago I was reading a column by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman in which he stresses upon the need to get millions of American kids, not…