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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
It’s been 6 months since I started StayUncle. Joined a great team, got infected with a great idea and made handful of mistakes. Some of them disgust me. Some of them brought me bits of glory. Some of them I… Read more ›
Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people’s, and ranked each… Read more ›