The trade body of Indian IT firms NASSCOM has signed a MoU with Facebook to build a product design initiative to engage the country’s young entrepreneurs into becoming problem solvers and solution builders. Signed in Silicon Valley this week, the NASSCOM-Facebook initiative is likely to propel innovative thinking and approaches to build solutions in key […]
Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra today said energy levels of Indians make him believe there will be a “virtual explosion” in entrepreneurship going forward. “If I use the adjective explosion, we will not be hyping it up…we have amongst the highest energy levels both in quality and quantity anywhere in the world. I see a […]
MUMBAI: In a first for a corporate entity, Tech Mahindra is all set to create a ‘startup garage’ for its in-house entrepreneurs. “Within our set-up, we have a number of companies that is working already. But we are about to launch a garage soon …ours will be the first corporate garage for the startups,” TechM […]
Mobile app for transportation, Ola has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Uttar Pradesh in order to generate entrepreneurship opportunities along with skill development for 50,000 men and women across the next five years. Ola will also work with the state government to introduce innovative and customised mobility solutions like Ola […]
NEW DELHI: Yoga guru Ramdev, who runs foods and cosmetics firm Patanjali that is eyeing Rs 5,000 crore turnover this fiscal, today asked entrepreneurs to keep their products affordable and provide a big push to the domestic market. Addressing a gathering of over 600 entrepreneurs here, Ramdev said India has a huge potential and they […]
NEW DELHI: Appreciating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Start Up India initiative, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy today said it will encourage entrepreneurship and generate jobs. “At the end of the day… it is about the power of entrepreneurship, how it can create lots of jobs and how there is a need to encourage our youngsters to create […]
Inspiring Schoolpreneurs Youngsters are increasingly realizing that entrepreneurship is an important tool for country’s economic and industrial development. Though not in a fast pace, but entrepreneurship is certainly spreading its wings incrementally. Entrepreneurship didn’t exists few years ago, but at this point of time, school students know about it and are willing to experiment with […]
NEW YORK: Forty-five Indians and Indian-origin people have made it to Forbes’ annual list of achievers under the age of 30 who are “changing the rules of the game or creating entirely new playbooks” across varied fields. The Forbes fifth annual ’30 Under 30′ list features 600 women and men, who are America’s “most important […]
Today is the 146th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – known as Mahatma (great soul) Gandhi all over the world, or simply Bapu in India, where he is revered by many as the Father of the Nation .Mahatma Gandhi inspired an entire nation decades ago to rise up and join him in the fight for […]
Saras Agarwal’s main agenda at a networking event early this year was to meet Zishaan Hayath, cofounder and chief executive of education technology startup Toppr. The associate vice-president at VenturEast, among India’s oldest venture capital firms, wasn’t looking to invest in Toppr but discuss startups Hayath had put his money into. “It was a general […]
The former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly is well known for his television show Dadagiri and now become the face of an upcoming Bengali business reality show Egiye Bangla – apni jokhon entrepreneur. The request came from none other than Chief minister of Bengal Ms. Mamata Banerjee. The show is being sponsored by Bengal government, as […]
For a man who is nothing but a media genius and has dabbled with multiple businesses like Toothbrush manufacturing, Cable TV, UTV Motion Pictures, and off late with ventures like Authoring his own book – Dream with your eyes open: An Entrepreneurial Journey, Lenskart, Zivame, etc. Ronnie Screwvala is nothing short of an inspiration for […]