entrepreneurship

I first met Sahil at IIT Kanpur in February of 2011. I was there, along with my co-founder, to pitch our B-Plan in front of a panel of judges as part of Ideas’11 competition. Sahil had convened a meet and-greet for all the participants, the…

The entrepreneurship bug is finally catching up in India. And no, I don’t mean to exaggerate. I’m talking in relative terms. I do understand that staying in Bangalore tends to have an overstating effect on your perception. But,…

There are IIMs to teach management and IITs to teach engineering. There is NIFD to teach designing and NIIT to teach IT. But how to learn entrepreneurship? Although few short term courses on entrepreneurship do pop up at random times,…

In an interview at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Monday, VC and Founder of investment firm The Social+Capital Partnership, Chamath Palihapitiya riled up a few souls with his sweeping statement, saying that entrepreneurs and VCs…

Last week, when I was home on my break, lazing in front of my laptop, my mother commanded me to go out and buy a few groceries and other household items. I think the command was more out of a concern for my laziness rather than an actual…

Let’s admit this: Entrepreneurship is not easy. The road to success is full of obstacles and challenges. But the true entrepreneur never bothers about these issues, and continues to cruise along the super highway of adventure, experiment…

Compared to the west, Indian Startup Ecosystem is relatively small, but growing at a steady pace. Increasing number of startups are coming up, more incubators and accelerator programs are getting launched and more angel / VC money is…

Stanford has just announced its nine-week, part-time certificate program called “Stanford Ignite” that essentially teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to formulate, develop, and commercialize their ideas. Given the course content,…

Few days back, I discussed about how technology has added to ease of starting a new business and how it is helping first time small business users in growing it and making it easier for them to work. Of course much of it is true for large…

Today, I want to talk about the impact of technology in entrepreneurship. To me, Entrepreneurship is the most intimate form of work a person does. When you are working for someone else, how so much ever the attachment is, there will always…

Touted as the unofficial capital of Asia, Singapore is maturing as a regional entrepreneurial hub. The country has been singled out for its potential to turn into Asia’s Silicon Valley with an increasing number of technology enterprises,…

In past few years, culture of Entrepreneurship has definitely grown in India – And nurturing this growth are the various Startup Accelerator programs that have been launched during this time. In 2007, when I came back to India, I…

Entrepreneurs drive most local economies. Not only do they provide jobs to the local community but also boost consumerism. This is one of the main reasons why the growth of an economy is directly related to the number of professionals…

A recent survey titled Women & Entrepreneurship in India 2012 Study by Women's Web interviewed more than 100 women entrepreneurs in India and put together an interesting set of statistics. Most of the respondents were owners of small to…

A country that is so rich in arts, culture and heritage, which has contributed so much to mankind right from the zero to medical innovations during the Charaka period to arts and architecture to engineering from the Chola period to Tanjore…

The Startup Owner's Manual is the latest book by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf. It has been taking the business and startup world by storm. I read it only recently and realized how much you are losing by running your startup without reading and…

  A Shareholders’ Agreement between shareholders of a private limited company is a contract that details the various provisions that will govern each of the shareholders who are party to the agreement vis-à-vis the Company and the…

This is sure to bring smile on the faces of entrepreneurs. The General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) which threatened to affect the VC’s, angel investors the most has been deferred by Government for a year. In the Finance bill, it was…

Does words like “Freemium” or “Virality” or “Pivot” sound confusing to you? If you are an Entrepreneur, especially in online space you would be familiar with them. These buzzwords are commonplace in Silicon Valley and now very much part of…

In today’s competitive business world, there are times when you run out of capital funds. The easiest and most convenient source of funding during such times, are the angel investors. This however doesn’t mean that you accept cash from any…