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Solar batteries – The Surprising Reason on Why Indian PM Modi Visited Tesla

Written by Prashin Chaturvedi, Business Transformation Leader –  India’s Prime Minister Mr. Modi visited the Silicon Valley last month, and on the itinerary were the obvious inclusions – Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft. Also on the list was a curious entry – Tesla.  Why Tesla? Modi surely did not make the high-profile visit to get an early […]

9 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting My First Startup- Neil Patel

Lesson #1: Investors love to make excuses on why they don’t want to invest When we first started pitching Crazy Egg, no investor would write us a check. It wasn’t their fault as my co-founder and I sucked at pitching. They all had different reasons why they didn’t want to invest. After getting over 20 […]

Why Indian App Companies Take Out Full NewsPaper Ads – Ritesh Banglani

The ads are inescapable. They stare at you from hoardings at busy intersections, bellow at you on live TV and cover the entire front page of major newspapers. Approximately Rs. 3500 Cr worth of traditional media advertising is bought annually by internet companies, typically peddling their smartphone apps.

How I owned Google.com for a minute- Sanmay Ved

A strange thing happened at 1:20 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 29. I was learning more about the Google Domains interface, and typed google.com and clicked search domains. To my surprise, Google.com was showing as available! I clicked the add to cart icon beside the domain (which should not appear if the domain is […]

Key takeaways from Indian PM Modi’s visit to silicon valley

The Indo-US Startup Connect was a unique exhibition of Start-Ups that showcased products from 40 different companies. Forty startups from India are participating in the programme at San Jose, which was planned following PM Modi’s “Startup India, Stand up India” call from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day.

Google CEO Pichai backs ‘Digital India’ initiative

India-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday took to YouTube to back Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi’s ‘Digital India’ campaign focused on connecting 1.2 billion people in the country and said his company would play its part in supporting the initiative.

Why these big Corporates like Reliance, Tata, Birla showing interest in startups now

One of Reliance Industries’ offices in suburban Mumbai became unusually busy last week. The Reason: a second batch of 10 startups joined the country’s largest private firm’s four-month acceleration programme, run in partnership with Microsoft Ventures, to help them scale up operations through mentoring and infrastructure support in exchange of technology and ideas. A month […]

Why Steve Jobs is Unique and Why His Personal Life is Irrelevant – Geoffrey James

The U.S. celebrity machine thrives on a set-em-up-and-knock-em-down cycle so it’s not surprising that the latest film about Steve Jobs is highly negative. However, perseverating on Jobs’s problematic personal relationships is completely missing the point. CEO’s that treat people like crap are dime-a-dozen. There was nothing unique about Jobs’s management style. What was unique about […]

How Accelerators make money to manage operating costs

There are over 500 startup accelerators in the US and over 1000 worldwide. Most accelerators are aligned with Universities (at over 35%), some are government funded (local government mostly) at 29% and some (15%) get grants from rich individuals and institutions such as Kauffman Fund. The remainder (21%) are privately funded accelerators such as 500 […]

first 5 steps to building your own SaaS application by Mukund Mohan

This post is for non-developer founders who want to build a SaaS application. Before writing about 5 steps to make SaaS application it’s important to know about “What is Saas?” SAAS, or “Software as a Service” in general refers to a software application which is hosted by a provider on their own servers, but accessible […]