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In 60 seconds – Gautam Gandhi, Head of New BizDev India for Google
One teacher I remember, and why Gautam Gandhi My entrepreneurship Professor, Tom Emerson, at CarnegieMellonUniversity. He taught me the power of storytelling. From him I learnt that when you have a...
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Sandeep Aggarwal case: Lessons for professionals
“Aggarwal tipped Richard Lee, portfolio manager at #SAC Capital, about pending deal between @Microsoft & @Yahoo.” Thus reads the last of the series of tweets about Sandeep Aggarwal on FBI New...
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Anirudh Suri, MD, India Internet Group; I’m both an investor and an entrepreneur
Is Anirudh Suri, MD of India Internet Group (Advisors), an investor or an entrepreneur? ‘Both,’ he says, during the course of a telephonic interaction with YourStory. “I run incubated companies and...
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Swiss interest in startups
One of the questions that the Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Switzerland, Dr Martin Strub, was willing to respond to was about the initiatives of his country for startups. Though no detailed...
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Brand building is an exercise, nothing romantic; B. Bharath, Founder & CEO,...
Meet Bharath Baba, Founder & CEO, Rupayam.com. Bharath is a banker with a diverse experience – in retail and corporate banking, and sales and distribution in FMCG companies. He bootstrapped Rupayam...
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How the world looks at India
Raghuram Rajan, the Chief Economic Advisor of the Finance Ministry, Government of India, was in Chennai, to deliver the Kuruvila Jacob Oration on education. And, when the floor was open to a controlled...
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‘Education and entrepreneurship ecosystem’ with S. Mahalingam, Former CFO of TCS
The bullish talk of Raghuram Rajan, the Chief Economic Advisor of the Finance Ministry, Government of India, is just over, and he is rushing to the airport leaving a whole of bunch of reporters...
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Talking Heads – Sankaran P. Raghunathan, Dean, National Management School
India’s growth story is unfolding The National Management School (NMS) brings American students to India for them to understand how India’s growth story is unfolding. Thus informs the school’s dean...
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Interview – Karthik Vasudevan, Co-founder, Global Graynz
Don’t underestimate marketing Have fun doing what you do, says Karthik Vasudevan, Co-founder, Global Graynz. “Being an entrepreneur teaches you way more than any MBA does – this, coming from an MBA...
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Talking Heads – Nirupama Vaidyanathan
The game built character in me Nirupama Vaidyanathan, India’s Number 1 at the age of 14 and the first Indian woman to win a round at a Grand Slam, was in Chennai to launch her book, ‘The Moonballer’...
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Allow experimentation in schools, says Raghuram Rajan, Chief Economic Advisor
The speech of Raghuram Rajan, the Chief Economic Advisor of the Finance Ministry, Government of India (recently announced as the new RBI Governor), under the auspices of the Kuruvila Jacob Initiative,...
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N Buzz addressing the needs of seed industry
Balwant Singh, Director, N Buzz Business Solution Pvt Ltd Meet Balwant Singh, Director, N Buzz Business Solution Pvt Ltd, who begins on a down-to-earth note, true to the nature of seeds that form the...
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“Our industry needs professional entrepreneurs”– Dr. Deb Mukherji, MD, ADM...
Deb Mukherji , Managing Director, ADM Technologies Pvt Ltd It is not everyday that I meet a PhD leading a business. And, here I am, with Dr Deb Mukherji, Managing Director, ADM Technologies Pvt Ltd, in...
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Field lessons for Ed Tech entrepreneurs
Varadarajan Sridharan It was in June that I had invited, through a Facebook post, geeks and startup entrepreneurs to send in their stories. One of the responses was from Varadarajan Sridharan,...
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When nobody can help you…
Vijay Amritraj Feeling lonely as an entrepreneur? If yes, you may be no different from a tennis player, as Vijay Amritraj explains. “When I look at a tennis player on the tennis court doing things on...
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Talking Heads – Rahul Khanna, Managing Director, Canaan Partners
Lessons from history What is Rahul Khanna, Managing Director of Canaan Partners, reading these days? Business books, as well as best practices in leadership, management, compensation and strategy? He...
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Takeaways at the end of ten years, Dinesh Victor, Managing Director, SIP...
On the sidelines of the tenth anniversary celebrations of SIP Academy India P Ltd (http://www.sipacademyindia.com/), I manage to get the company’s managing director Dinesh Victor to speak about what he...
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‘Pacific’ push for startups from Progress
The context of my recent telephonic conversation with Ramesh Loganathan, VP (Products) & Centre Head, Progress Software – Hyderabad Labs, was the announcement by his company to fund startups....
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Focus on why something went wrong: Nirupama Vaidyanathan, Tennis coach
What does failure mean to you? Perhaps, not an apt question to ask Nirupama Vaidyanathan, the winner of National Women’s title 1992-96, and Triple gold medallist at SAF games in Chennai 1995. Yet,...
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Focused innovation on neonatal care, Ibis Medical Equipment & Systems
With a dream to become one of the best Indian companies manufacturing high-quality neonatology critical-care equipment ‘in India for India,’ here is Sujith .S, Co-founder, Ibis Medical Equipment &...
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