India’s Unicorn Internet startups Flipkart and Ola are grouping together with peers including travel portal MakeMyTrip to launch a Nasscom like industry body that will be representing their interests and aim to deal with deep pocketed rivals, and sustain their existence in one of the world’s most prized markets for digital commerce. The lobby group […]
The government has extended tax benefits to 67 startups so far with a view to promoting budding entrepreneurs in the country, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry C R Chaudhary said today. In January 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had unveiled a slew of incentives to boost start-up ecosystem, offering them a tax holiday and inspector […]
We are fascinated by the access economy and this is how the next level of consumerism is going to happen. This is a great time to be in this space. Just at the time when WeWork raises a massive investment of $ 4.4 Billion and Gurgaon has the world’s largest co-coworking space, thanks to GoWork. […]
The world today is changing at a rapid pace. People are venturing into the unknown. The rate at which startups are growing is tremendous. But, just like a home needs some must-have tools to build it from scratch, so does a startup. To help those entrepreneurs who foresee a brighter future with their startups and […]
The Indian School of Business (ISB) and SAP Labs India have entered into a collaboration to nurture technology-based startups in the social space, focusing on ventures which are working in areas that have relevance to national priorities. According to a statement issued by the ISB, titled Jumpstart Social Enterprise Accelerator, the programme aims to identify […]
Startup is a risky business. ‘The million dollar idea’ alone won’t suffice. One has to have better understanding about the customer targeted, and how to reach out to them; followed by extensive planning and then finally, an eventual place for the launch of your product(s). It’s very important that one finds the right city according […]
Elon Musk is now set to make his own Hyperloop after being an inspiration for startups, as per the latest report by Bloomberg. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is said to be planning to build the Hyperloop portion of his planned underground tunnel-based Hyperloop network himself, rather than relying on outside partners who are already […]
The Govt of Odisha has recognized 80 startups in diverse areas, during the Second meeting of the Task Force held under the Chairmanship of Shri L.N. Gupta, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, MSME.
ICAR-NAARM Technology Business Incubator (TBI), a-IDEA and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad’s (IIM-A) incubator Center for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) announces AGRI-UDAAN, a programme to promote innovations and entrepreneurship in agriculture and help them connect potential investors. “The idea is to attract the youth from rural India and elsewhere, and train them so they […]
Eminent scientist Tessy Thomas called upon the youth to take up initiatives like start-ups to help the government fight challenges in sectors like health, environment and education. Thomas – known as the Missile Woman of India – was speaking at the Convocation 2017 of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science yesterday. The quality of […]
Axis Bank has selected three fintech startups from its ‘Thought Factory’ accelerator programme, to incorporate solutions in operational efficiency, lending and tax planning which it will commercially deploy at its business units, it announced at an event in Bengaluru on Friday. The bank will collabborate with Pally, FintechLabs and Gieom out of the six startups, namely […]
Tech investor T V Mohandas Pai today said business-to-business startups are coming forth in a “big-way” despite difficulties in running them when compared to business-to-consumer startups. Quoting a report, he said there are 20,000 startups in India and 90 per cent of them are B2C, because they are started by young people barely out of […]