A year ago, Sunil Mahajan, CEO of Kleeto, approached a few seed funds and venture capitalists to raise working capital for the record management solutions company. Forget funding, many of them did not even give Mahajan a patient hearing. Kleeto… Read more ›
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I thought I would make millions through my startup, but I failed miserably. I read shiny stories of Flipkart and Zomato, but nobody told me that 90% startups fail within two years of starting up, I failed in the first… Read more ›
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In a sprawling wholesale market of timber, glass and marble, businessman Amit Gupta supervises workers loading sheets of glass on trucks for builders across India – his family business for five decades. As plumes of sawdust float up, Gupta says… Read more ›
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Key government departments will put their heads together in a ‘working group’ to make it easier for startups to do business, the first major initiative by the Narendra Modi government which has coined the slogan ‘Startup India Stand up India’… Read more ›
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Deep inside a Silicon Valley unicorn lurks a time bomb. It is a peculiarity of venture capital financing that the engine that pumps money into a promising start-up can later cause the same start-up to self-destruct. With all the hoopla… Read more ›
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Raghu Raman, former CEO of the Indian National Intelligence Grid, delivers a riveting talk on how the Indian Armed Forces actually work. Here’s the takeaway from this video: 1. Commander’s Intent Everyone in the team should know the Commander’s Intent.… Read more ›
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Steve Jobs planned every detail of his own memorial service, held at Stanford University in October 2011, including the brown box each attendee received as a farewell gift. One of those attendees was Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, and two… Read more ›
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She’s the most successful self-made female billionaire in the world, and comparatively few people have ever heard of her. Meet Zhou Qunfei, school dropout (by economic necessity), former factory worker–and founder and CEO of Lens Technologies, the world’s leading manufacturer of… Read more ›
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Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Accenture, Dell and Wipro are among 20 companies that are part of the programme that seeks to foster an environment wherein corporates would help startups by sharing with them the expertise of their employees, by providing… Read more ›
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Before the Bansals and Bahls, there was Kothandaraman Vaitheeswaran. And then he just fell off the grid. The story of K. Vaitheeswaran, a pioneer of e-commerce in India, who was far ahead in the game compared to Flipkart or Snapdeal, but… Read more ›
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