Startups at nascent stage, are small, simple and ambitious! They are yearning to become big and hence set ambitious goals for their employees. But amidst all the noise and the pressure to financial targets, where does an HR fit in a startup environment? Startups are …
Take a look at these names…DazoSpoonjoyTalentPadTaxiForSureJewelskartFashionaraITiffinWhat’s the common thread that links these names? While these start-ups started off with huge investments being poured in for them to thrive, they failed to make a mark in today’s highly competitive market. As India witnesses a sudden surge …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Today, the B2B eCommerce websites in India are undergoing a massive transformation. From being non-existent and unknown to forging listing based websites to finally enabling full-fledged transactions for the members, they have faced it all and yet the journey for B2B eCommerce websites has just started. …
The global start-up buzz to fuel innovation-led future has got world economies putting onus on technology, talent, infrastructure, policy, and capital. The third largest start-up ecosystem – India (where technology impact is now getting visible on existing businesses like education) too has its line of sight clear though internally there are technology clusters like Hyderabad looking …
T-Hub, one of the largest startup ecosystem builders in India announces the launch of ‘AgriTech Accelerator Program’ in partnership with ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics), powered by RViP (Riverbridge Ventures Innovations Platform).The program will begin on 15th February 2017. During the three-month acceleration …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The long, strange saga of Gawker Media, Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan came to an end last month when Univision the media outlet for $135 million at auction. While Univision bought the company's entire portfolio of sites, the frequently controversial Gawker.com shortly after the sale. …
“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 …
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 …
This article was co-written with Our startup, hit an important milestone in June this year, when we reached US$1 million of sales on our peer-to-peer marketplace for secondhand things. For a small, not-very-well-funded startup, we are very proud of ourselves. We had no fancy marketing …
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 …
Globally, there are over 100 million new businesses, which are launched every year. Considering the statistics, it translates into roughly 11,000 startups launched every hour! In this fast paced environment, it is essential for startups to keep innovating, if they want to survive.With thousands of …
Yes Bank has recently launched a privilege programme called Yes:Head-Startup for the startups. It is a full-service banking proposition for tech or tech-enabled startups. For the programme, the bank has forged the alliance with VC Circle, Indian Angel Network, Registrationwala.com, Awfis.com, ISDI, T-Hub and Entrepreneur …
As dedicated advocates of small-business innovators, Staples and Entrepreneur are proud to present these up-and-coming startups. Discovered by mining the , these companies are reinventing how consumers and businesses perform everyday tasks. TOP HONORS Staples will present these three companies with gift cards, marketing services …
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 …
According to a latest report published by CB Insights and KPMG last week, Q3 saw VC-backed funding, down14 percent and $24.1 billion invested across 1,983 deals globally, representing a very slight deal increase from the previous quarter. However, India on the other hand had reasons 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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