What comes to your mind when you think about companies like Webvan, Dodgeball, Pets.com, Kozmo.com, and WebTV? All were pioneers in their markets in many ways, but all were—in some respects, anyway—failures. In the business world, it’s the unlucky fate of certain companies to serve as proof, or even punchlines, about how ambitious technology companies […]
The e-commerce bubble is likely to burst sooner than later as businesses run on profits and not on ideas, former MD of Network18 Raghav Bahl said. “The bubble is going to burst. History has been witness to this time and again. For the past 100 years, these bubbles have been created from the Tulips, to […]
Entrepreneurship is all about finding answers. Your entire business is an answer to a common consumer problem, or need. Your business plan is a general answer to the most common questions investors and lenders ask regarding your viability and potential for growth. And when you look for new clients, you’ll be answering a barrage of […]
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 […]
There seems to be an endemic mushrooming of new enterprises and entrepreneurs – ‘Startups’ – if you please. A lot of them may not survive the competition and go under. A few of them would live the dream and prosper. Can there be a code or formula that ensures success?
Ratan Tata has joined the advisory board of venture capital firm IDG Ventures India as a senior advisor, third such move by Tata Sons’ chairman emeritus this year. IDG Ventures, which holds stakes in e-tailer Flipkart and online travel portal Yatra, has offices in Delhi and Bengaluru. Tata will be advising IDG Ventures India and […]
Many emerging start-ups like BigBasket and PepperTap have started to acquire the market with their services of providing food and groceries right to your doorstep. Providing over more than 14,000 products all over from pulses to dairy and eggs and all that too online is no small thing. These startups have slammed the accelerators and […]
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day dream of India succeeding as ‘startup’ country has to kick start, there is a lot to learn from the original ‘startup nation’ Israel. The tiny country of Israel mushrooms almost two new startup companies every day and today houses some 5000 startups. New Delhi of course is just […]
India in the present state has the largest working population in the world; this working population is young and works hard. People lifestyles have changed dramatically and they are working more on new ideas more than ever. The start-up culture has spread widely and has penetrated to the far ends of our nation.
In 2012, Dhruv Kumar shifted the base of his online medical advice platform, iCliniq, to Coimbatore after operating it out of Bengaluru for two years. The reason: He didn’t want to be overwhelmed or distracted by the hoopla around startups in the tech capital. “I wanted to be out of all the noise and focus […]
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 […]
Axilor Ventures today announced that Kris Gopalakrishnan will be taking over as its Non-Executive Chairman. Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder of Infosys and its former Vice-Chairman, is recognized as a global business and technology leader. Kris was selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, for the year 2009. A Padma Bhushan awardee, he […]