An entrepreneur is someone who organises and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. Ever wondered how the likes of Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, J.K Rowling and many others became successful entrepreneurs? Believe it or not they know what it’s like to launch a new business […]
Since we launched our startup nearly 4 months ago, a certain question has weighed heavily on our minds. As we invest our time and money building our product there’s always been the burden of uncertainty… what if we spend a year building a product that nobody wants? All the best server architecture, best people, capital, […]
Warren Buffett struck media gold with a 2012 investment in debt-laden Media General Inc. Now the famed investor may try to reprise that success by supporting a bid for Yahoo Inc’s Internet assets. The Berkshire Hathaway Inc chairman is backing a consortium that includes Quicken Loans Inc founder Dan Gilbert, that is seeking to buy […]
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 […]
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 […]
US-based car rental firm Hertz files for chapter 11 bankruptcy due to covid19 impact.
Apple launched next generation iPhone SE in the market costing $399, a 40% markdown from the most affordable iPhone 11.
Mobile control door access startup Nexkey raises a $6 million Series A round led by Upfront Ventures.
Co-working startup WeWork filed for an IPO after its parent company proposes its stock sale under We ticker.
Chinese On Demand app GoJEK Acquires Bangalore-based company AirCTO that uses AI tools to accelerate recruitment.
DheeYantra Research Labs, the company behind vernacular chatbot platform dhee.ai, recently raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a seed round led by Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), the incubator-cum-investment arm of IIM-Ahmedabad. This funding round also witnessed the participation of Gopal Krishna, former managing director of Maxim India Integrated Circuits and stock […]
India’s top management institute IIM-Ahmedabad has launched USD 25 million fund for startups working in the areas of financial inclusion, livelihood, education, and health over the next three to four years. The initiative is known as the Bharat Inclusion Initiative, which aims to invest in startups in fintech, education etc with the help of CIIE. […]