Essays on Start up

Companies struggle with deadlines for new product builds. It can take a long time to get everybody around the table agreed on a product — so much so that nobody dares let it fail. They throw money, time and effort against the wall, and launches …

In the second quarter of 2014, roughly  invested in startups was invested in those located in Silicon Valley. For startups not located at this epicenter of emerging companies, it might seem like an uphill battle, but it doesn’t have to be. In fact, tech has already undergone …

Your presentation to your investor is sparkling with clarity, confidence, and chutzpah. You can feel the energy in the room bursting, and you feel like you have them eating from your hands. You finish your presentation with flair, you are expecting an applause, and you …

For any startup funding is the essential part. They raise money to build their product and scale it to next level. And with the emerging startups, every now and then we hear one or the other startup raising funds. If you have missed your daily …

Startups have always yearned for VC funding and have been slightly unaware of the advantages of seeking the same money from government bodies. Dr. Som Singh, founder and trustee of Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CEE), spoke to Entrepreneur India about the galore of advantages that …

Long gone are the scary days of Reefer Madness and an insurmountable societal fear of cannabis. CNN's Sanjay Gupta recently  a 70-year myth about the enigmatic herb, confirming its medicinal properties. This, while some states are legalizing the herb's recreational use, and even more states already …

Raising the right amount of capital from the correct investor is perhaps one of the most crucial tasks for an entrepreneur. Analogous to matrimony, while finding the right investor would ensure the longevity of the enterprise, a wrong match may provide to be completely detrimental …

Introduction After successfully launching a business and successfully maintaining that company, many business owners look for another BIG challenge; often that means purchasing another organization. Acquiring another company is a common business practice. However, when considering such acquisition, a lot of research is conducted, long …

For two decades, Noe Sanchez sent money from California to his father in Mexico City through storefront outlets of traditional remittance firms such as Western Union.Now he grabs his smartphone and uses Remitly, one of several new competing mobile apps promoting cheap and quick international …

Entrepreneur is on the road with startup platform Rise of the Rest. Check out  for stories from the October road trip as well as for insights from thought leaders and community leaders showing there’s an entrepreneurial world outside Silicon Valley. Today, we toured Denver on …

If you think that the brilliant mind behind , one of the web’s easiest-to-use landing-page generators, comes from a hard-core sales and marketing background, you’d be wrong. Related: Clay Collins, LeadPage’s co-founder and CEO, isn’t a sales guy at all. He’s a PhD dropout in developmental neuropsychology, a field …

In all fairness, startups have a lot on its plates.From raising capital to product development to marketing and public relations to just plain keeping sane, startups are typically very busy places. So while your startup may be struggling to balance key elements, like leadership, staffing, product development, market …

Penny Kim, a marketing professional with a one-month career at a Silicon Valley startup, shared a detailed account of one of the ugliest startup stories we've ever heard.Her tale started with a job offer in July of $135,000 a year plus equity and a $10,000 …

New startups form limited liability companies (LLCs) and raise funding every day. Each startup needs a laundry list of technology to get up and running in a modern office setting. Luckily, we test plenty of new hardware, software and services in the PCMag Labs each month to …

Road transportation accounts for about six per cent of the overall GDP of our country. In spite of this significant contribution, the sector remains highly unorganized with truck drivers often having to deal with health issues, insurance woes and financial crisis.Accel Partners and Nandan Nilekani …

When one hears the phrase “Startup Hub,” the mind’s eye most likely automatically conjures up images of locations like New York City, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Boston. However, the Midwest region has been developing some real challenger cities to the “Startup Hub” throne. According to , …

Countless startupsevery year. But there are not countless reasons that they fail. “I’m talking to entrepreneurs three or four times a week, and they’re all coming to me with the exact same issues,” says Tarek Kamil, a serial entrepreneur with five launches under his belt …

If entrepreneurship is something new to you, then I strongly recommend . Being drawn to the wrong assumption that you are required to build a complicated behemoth is as easy as it is overwhelming. That $100K app — or even the website — is something …

Carbon, a Silicon Valley startup that is developing 3-D printers to produce medical devices and car parts on demand, said on Thursday it had closed on $81 million in funding that brought the total it has raised to $222 million."We wanted to go find investors …

At a time when the term innovation has come to be closely linked with business propositions of technology startups, the Turkish entrepreneurs behind startup Biopipe want to set an example that there is scope to innovate and make an impact in too. a patented, and …

On 5th September, a week after launching our app YourQuote (something like Instagram for Writers) on Google Play, we packed our bags, books, and guitars, and drove 500 kilometers from Delhi to Solang Valley, six kilometers farther off from Manali. We found ourselves a stranded guest-house …

The event provides a platform for MENA startups to showcase their business to a global audience as HAW 2016 hosts the fifth edition of the organized by the Harvard Business School MENA club and the Harvard Arab Alumni Association. Ten pre-selected early-stage startups will get …

Over the past few years, the ‘Startup Industry’ has witnessed the arrival of massive investment opportunities. Any fledgling business venture, irrespective of which industry it belongs to, requires a substantial investment in the form of business capital to help it get off the ground, and …

The authors clearly show how high-tech is applied to different areas of marketing mix and supply chain logistics to help meal-kit delivery companies create competitive advantage and have high customer satisfaction and retention rates. Unfortunately the authors are not able to provide us with the …

Missed out your daily updates? Eager to know which investors has backed the startups? Entrepreneur India brings to you the latest update on the current funding scenario so that you don’t miss single news from the startup world.Goalwise:An online investment firm Goalwise has secured $1 …

“People think that when you’re trying to build a startup community, talent follows capital. But in reality, if you build the talent and a sense of possibility, the capital will follow.” –Steve CaseDay four of brought us to Albuquerque during the week of the iconic Balloon …

There is one thing that almost all businesses have in common: they were born from a simple idea. Whether something innovative and never before attempted, or simply a new take on an old process– without this initial spark, few businesses would exist. But what value …

India’s Silicon Valley Bangalore witnessed a sudden eruption of vandalism on Monday after Supreme Court ordered the state to release more water from the Cauvery River to neighbour Tamil Nadu. Employees across sectors were sent home via office transport facilities or were merely asked to …

A year ago I noticed a pattern in the least successful startups we’d funded: they all seemed hard to talk to. It felt as if there was some kind of wall between us. I could never quite tell if they understood what I was saying. …

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