The fondest memories I have of my childhood are that of the summer holidays that I spent at my grandfather’s house in his village. For a city girl, born and brought up in Hyderabad, everything about the village life, its …
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Superwomen in Entrepreneurship
Bruce Wayne aka Batman, billionaire businessman by day and local vigilante by night, inspires confidence in the entire Gotham City with his intelligence, confidence and power. Tony Stark, better recognized as Iron Man, leads the multi-billion dollar Stark Industries …
INVEST IN YOUR INVESTOR: The Startup — VC Dialogue
Life presents us with difficult choices at all junctures. It is the learnings we take away from our choices, which define our future actions and standing. One such important lesson I recall is from my time as a CEO of
The Vernacularization of #DigitalIndia
Indians love Bollywood and nothing depicts the changing Indian mindset and preferences more than Bollywood trends. Narrow by-lanes of small towns and old cities have replaced Swiss Alps and foreign locales. Awkward attempts at aping Hollywood style movies have given
Tales of Scale
Three successful founders share stories of their journeys scaling some of India’s leading startups and lessons they learnt along the way
In my journey as an investor, I’ve come across many people who have wanted to become entrepreneurs; very few …
“India has iconic entrepreneurial success stories” — Arun Kumar
Try googling ‘leadership’ and you’ll get over 800 million results. Enough and more has been written about the essential attributes of leadership, and everyone has an opinion on what really goes into making a great leader. Yet there are few …
“Indian startups can find solutions to global problems by innovating for Indian challenges” — Amitabh Kant
A country’s GDP growth is one of the primary measures to gauge its economic health. And India’s GDP growth, at 7 percent per annum is growing on the back of surge in opportunities and the impetus provided to encourage the …
How Nazara’s success has became a game-changer for the Gaming sector!
We have had some great startup stories coming out of India, but the road to success is long and, arduous, and often very lonely for entrepreneurs. Few know this journey better than Nitish Mittersain of Nazara Technologies. He founded his …
Government acknowledges blockchain: small step, big implications
The biggest and most basic use of blockchain is to streamline record keeping and transactions and create interoperable systems that can share information.
Yesterday, the government of India announced in the budget that they would explore the use of blockchain …