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Why Starting Your Startup Now Is The Best Idea
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Why Starting Your Startup Now Is The Best Idea

Startup? Funding? Incubation? Mentoring? If these terms excite you, then it’s about time you give starting your own venture a serious thought. The journey isn’t a walk in the park, but if you have faith in yourself and your idea, it will all be worth it in the end. Starting-up today ain’t as hard as it was couple of decades ago and that’s exactly what this article is all about. Having an awesome business idea is one thing, but knowing how to correctly file taxes, or understanding the difference between LLP and a Sole proprietorship, or getting a hold on social media and offline marketing can quickly become overwhelming. There are number of several factors that an entrepreneur needs to look into, before taking the plunge. Here are a couple of them: Importance of Funding for a startup: ...
Axilor Ventures Announces 20 Startups that Made To Its Fifth Accelerator Batch
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Axilor Ventures Announces 20 Startups that Made To Its Fifth Accelerator Batch

Bangalore, April 13, 2017: Axilor Ventures announced the list of 20 startups that made it to its Summer'17 accelerator batch. This is its fifth batch and is the largest accelerator cohort in India. Talking of the new accelerator cohort, Ganapathy Venugopal, Co-founder and CEO of Axilor said, “The institutional capacity to support early stage startups in India is quite low - whether it is the structured programs to systematically improve the odds of success of startups, the market access that they need in their early days or the angel investment capacity. This has been Axilor's mission and by doubling the capacity of this batch to 20 startups we have taken one more step to bridge these gaps. We are very excited to work with the new cohort. The cohort of 20 startups and 52 founders mak...
IIT Bombay incubated Startup Raises 2 Crore
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IIT Bombay incubated Startup Raises 2 Crore

Nanosniff Technologies, an IIT Bombay incubated company, has raised Rs 2 crore (about USD 300,000) from 1Crowd and its investor community. Nanosniff is a deep technology company working on high impact offerings in MEMS domain with applications in healthcare and security markets. "Nanosniff is an exemplary case where genuine IP has been created from robust R&D to address healthcare and security markets," 1Crowd co-founder Anil Gudibande said in a statement. It had previously raised an undisclosed amount from a group of angel investors.  
Tatas Tech Arm GTIO Will Commercially Launch 4 Products in Next 2yrs
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Tatas Tech Arm GTIO Will Commercially Launch 4 Products in Next 2yrs

Tata Sons Group Technology and Innovation Office (GTIO) will roll out four high-tech products in the next two years. GTIO is working on four specific products -- a smartwatch for industrial workers being tested on Tata Steels workforce, a drone-based pesticide spraying system, a factory and fleet analytics system, and an advanced material called graphene. "All the projects that we undertake will take three to five years from start to finish... You will see a rollout in the next two years," Tata Sons Group Technology Officer Gopichand Katragadda said. The salt-to-software conglomerate is the biggest spender on research and development among the large companies in the country. Last year, GTIO had spent 2.7 per cent of its USD 110 billion revenue on R&D and innovation. The incuba...