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Mohit Goel, Founder & MD of Freedom 251 Smartphone Quits

29Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Mohit Goel, Founder & MD of Freedom 251 Smartphone Quits

The hype around India's cheapest smartphone Freedom 251 looking to near end. According to news update, Mohit Goel and Dharna Goel (Mohit's wife), the managing director of the Noida-based Ringing Bells which launched the Freedom 251 smartphone priced at Rs 250, resigned from their positions. According to sources, just 10 days back Ringing Bells closed its operations and a new company named MDM Electronics has been formed by the founders. The company's dealers too seem to have no clue about its plans. The much-hyped launch at an event in New Delhi, of smartphone indulge in controversies, with some people terming it a ponzy scheme. There were also several cheating cases filed against the company. The company's sector 62 office in Noida has been shut now. We were tried to calling Mohi...

Lessons from 2015 – Deepinder Goyal, Founder of Zomato

31Jan By NitishNo Comments

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Lessons from 2015 – Deepinder Goyal, Founder of Zomato

“The rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield” –Warren Buffet 2015 was truly our year of learning. We learned while doing things we had been doing for a while, and we learned while venturing into uncharted, unfamiliar territory. At the turn of the year, as we always do, we paused to take stock of what we’d learned from the year gone by. Here are our key takeaways from 2015 – Don’t scale too fast. We scaled massively in 2015, starting with acquiring Urbanspoon, which gave us a canvas 3x larger than we had before. We were rapidly launching operations in new geographies and setting up new businesses. Suddenly having that many new competitors in new markets meant everything had to become an equal priority. When you do that, you spread yourself thinner than you want t...

5Jan By No Comments

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Youngest entrepreneurs of India

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 their ideas. Name: Arjun Santhosh Kumar Age: 15 years Class: 10th grade Designation: Founder & CEO, LateraLogics Arjun Santhosh Kumar, a 10th-grade student of Velammal Vidhyshram in Chennai, is the Founder & CEO of his company LateraLogics, a technology company which focuses on custom apps development, web development and consulting. Fascinated with science and technology, Kumar d...

Meet Reuben Paul, A 9-Year-Old Indian Boy Who Is Both A CEO And Cybersecurity Expert!

29Dec By No Comments

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Meet Reuben Paul, A 9-Year-Old Indian Boy Who Is Both A CEO And Cybersecurity Expert!

At his age, boys are just stepping into the fantasy world of Hogwarts and beginning to identify with the Wimpy Kid, but Reuben Paul has his eyes on the rain the green code rain of The Matrix. The third-grader is already an accomplished hacker, app developer, cybersecurity expert, and, not surprisingly, CEO of a game development firm, Prudent Games. In hacker circles, he is also a respected speaker, who shares his wisdom from the dais while standing on a chair hidden behind the lectern. On Thursday, the smiling nine-year-old from Austin, Texas was back in action at Ground Zero Summit 2015, a meeting of cybersecurity experts and researchers, at one of the biggest hacker conferences in the world. Last year, he had delivered his keynote on November 14, Children's Day, but this time he's her...

Why Employees are More Important Than Founders in a Startup?

28Dec By No Comments

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Why Employees are More Important Than Founders in a Startup?

Hiring for startups can be very different from that of large companies. Huge multi-national companies are process driven and need employees who can follow instructions and processes diligently while everyday could be a fire fighting day for a startup. Many startups make the mistake of hiring employees who are merely looking for a job rather than someone who is looking for a life experience. A lot of entrepreneurial people have been turned down from jobs at startups because they challenge the status quo, and the founders fear that they might be training someone who might one day become their competitor. In an era where product cycles are shortening, and some of the largest companies today were startups merely 10 years ago, this fear is hardly palpable. Pavan Soni, a research fellow at...

24Dec By No Comments

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10 Mindsets of a True Winner

While mentoring a very sharp young entrepreneur the other day, it occurred to me that most founders and small business owners are in business without any real idea of what it takes to be a winner. That’s why they follow the Richard Bransons and Mark Cubans of the world -- so they can understand how a successful person thinks. Unfortunately, thinking is just the beginning. Becoming successful over the long haul is just as much about listening to your gut than your ability to reason. It’s more about building relationships than understanding yourself. It’s more about experience and execution than ideas. And it’s more about doing than dreaming. All that begins with a mindset that defines how you behave. A mindset that leads to action is the mindset of a winner. This is the mindset of a w...

9 Billionaires Entrepreneur Who Didn’t Graduate High School

10Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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9 Billionaires Entrepreneur Who Didn’t Graduate High School

Did you know that “more than 1.3 million students drop out of high school every year in the US?” Considering that this makes a high-school dropout ineligible for 90% of jobs in the country, is there any reason to think that they’ll find success? Actually, there is. Though I don't recommend that anyone drops out of high school and I'm a big believer in school, there is hope if you've not been able to complete high school. In the 21st Century, successful people like Tumblr founder David Karp have left high school and entered the business work and have found some serious success. But, being a millionaire wasn’t good enough for these 9 billionaires who shunned higher education. 1. John D. Rockefeller Arguably the richest American of all-time, the founder of the Standard O...

4Dec By No Comments

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Don’t Forget Your Failures

There is a lot of emphasis on succeeding. And whether we buy the hype or not, we all want to succeed, especially if you consider success as "it works out the way I want it to." You know it feels good in the gut and in the heart because it worked out. So failing by that definition is that it didn’t work out the way you wanted it to. And [failing] is what we don’t usually get a lot of preparation for. She's right. But there's this, too: Failure is far from the only thing that entrepreneurs and business leaders don't get a lot of preparation for. When you're running a venture at breakneck speed, it's hard to pause even for a few hours or a few days, let alone reflect on what's happened in the recent past—for good or ill. And while most of us know that looking blindly toward the future with...

5 Key Tips For Starting A Small Business – Manpreet

15Oct By No Comments

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5 Key Tips For Starting A Small Business – Manpreet

Are you planning to start a small business? Are you struggling to find a mentor who could warn you about everything that could go wrong or everything that you must be careful for. Worry no more! I would love to help you with small business advice and this is one such post where I am going to list 5 key tips for starting a small business from the very founder of this blog. This is because when it comes to running a small business, I am still in the learning phase while Navneet is an expert in it. So, his advice is the one you really want. Not mine. (more…)