AngelList, the online platform for venture capital, is making a huge impact in the early-stage funding scene in the U.S. — it helped raise over $160 million for startups last year, for one thing — and now it is looking… Read more ›
India is quickly becoming a leading global startup hub. Rising numbers of entrepreneurs, incubators, international and local VCs, and multinational corporations are turbocharging the development of a burgeoning tech scene. In fact, the number of startups in India is expected… Read more ›
Tips are everywhere. There’s an abundance of generic advice available for how to build teams and culture, how to fundraise, how to be productive, how to stay above the noise… But what about specific advice? Specific tips for what differentiates… Read more ›
Here is a list of 16 founders ET believes the startup world must watch out for in 2016. The group is eclectic, and building businesses which are special in one way or another. Some are operating in market segments which… Read more ›
“Today, a 25-year-old can easily raise $5 million for a half thought-out business plan but a 45-year-old will struggle to raise even $500,000 for a well-conceived idea. Most startups took their first steps based on a very basic business model… Read more ›
While India is still a long way from showcasing a Microsoft or a Google, SaaS companies like Freshdesk have sprung up across the country to create products that meet the demands of small and medium businesses world wide. Software-as-a-service (SaaS)… Read more ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›