entrepreneurship

Cabinet has given nod to India’s first National Policy on Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, which aims to streamline 70+ skill development programs currently being run, across 21 ministries. This new policy will help to train more…

Among the vicinities of the start-up world, and venture capital power corridors, there is a famous saying that a capitalist doesn’t invest in ideas, as there are dozens of them right across the road. They invest in people, who are behind…

Rahul Yadav, CEO of fledging real estate startup Housing.com, has been surrounded by controversies over past few weeks. Earlier today he did a AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit. Many people were looking forward to this AMA as many were…

Ok, let’s face it heads-on: As you are reading these lines, we are living in one of the most favorable conditions of Entrepreneurship the World has ever seen. The world is connected with a huge web of technology, 25% of the world…

You can either love him or hate him; but you can’t ignore him. Rahul Yadav, the unconventional, maverick and at time totally unpredictable co-founder of Housing.com has decided to ‘gift’ all his shares in the company to employees. In…

An open ended Q&A from Mark Zuckerberg is a situation that doesn’t present itself in everyday life. Ever know what you’d ask when the colorblind youngest billionaire gave you an opportunity to ask him any details of his life?…

Certainly, someone is doing their homework. Keep up with the changing times - Say hello to women cab drivers soon! Ola aims to create at least 50,000 woman driver-entrepreneurs in 3 years! We can’t exactly decipher the effect of…

As part of the announcements made during Union Budget 2015-16, Government of India under leadership of PM Narendra Modi will launch Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA Bank) for refinancing small and medium enterprises…

There was a saying once in Kerala - You throw a stone and 90% of the time it'll hit an engineer. Fast forward to today and you hear a modified version of the same - You throw a stone and 90% of the time it'll hit a startup entrepreneur.…

The internet offers a vast array of business opportunities for entrepreneurs. Each year, countless small business owners hit the web to promote their business and generate revenue. The bad news is, many of these attempts end in disaster…

Startup Incubation (also known as Startup accelerators) hold significant importance in a country like India where entrepreneurs by the score are launching new setups and changing the game of business by minutes. For the uninitiated,…

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Body language is one of the most powerful influencer tools we will ever have – We had body language and signals before we had speech, and as per social…

In one of the previous post, we had shared how human beings lose their logic when it comes to encountering scarcity as an effective persuasive strategy. We had shared the famous cookie jar experiment to highlight the unique way our brains…

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity - Samuel Johnson Xiaomi is a Chinese mobile handset company which entered India few months back with a bang. Their marketing team has adapted a very interesting…

One would refuse to call him a monk, seeing him dressed in modern attire but the ever composed face will capture your attention. A smile, that makes even a stranger confide in him and words, that are of a monk. One will easily know how he…

With great power comes great responsibility – Uncle Ben in Spider-Man In the previous post, we had started this amazing journey of understanding and implementing Persuasion Techniques for Entrepreneurs. As discussed, persuasion is a…

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. - Mahatma Gandhi Since 1835, Britishers had imposed a weird ‘Salt Tax’ on Indians; according to which…

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time. - Jenny Mollen Long back during the industrial age, entrepreneurs worked with machines and human being were just a means to manage those machines. In case…

Remember your high school classwork, the first page, nothing less than a wonder and as you flip to the last pages, you know your handwriting is as legible as the doctor’s prescription! That’s just how life goes by, especially if you’re an…

For an entrepreneur who is planning to expand, these terms often trouble him. They seem to require a great deal of software knowledge which, I believe, majority of entrepreneurs (especially non-IT folks) won’t have. More than entrepreneurs,…