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Focus on people doing ground-up solid work: Parag Dhol, MD, Inventus Advisory...
While selling is in important skill, some people are just sales-ey with little substance, rues Parag Dhol, Managing Director, Inventus Advisory Services (India) P Ltd (www.inventusvc.com). And, that is...
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Lessons from campus entrepreneurship: S. Chinnuthai
Meet S. Chinnuthai, who has finished B. Com in M.O.P.VaishnavCollege, Chennai, and is pursuing Chartered Accountancy course. Here is her story about student entrepreneurship. “I was doing B.Com., and...
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Why I’m shorting Jim
There’s the old Mulla Nasruddin story. Mulla goes to a barber. While the work was in progress, he perhaps nodded, and so suffers a sudden nick. In sharp pain, he mutters under his breath, “Damn.” The...
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Design for disability: Malav Sanghvi, Medinnov
One of the winners of innovation awards at Medicall 2013 was Malav Singhvi, Co-founder of Medinnov, Ahmedabad (http://malavworks.blogspot.in/). A graduate from the National Institute of Design, Malav...
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Independence Day Special: Hope, India as Number One
Sanobar Shariff (13 yrs), a Global Art student at Alwarpet, Chennai, sees India as Number One in this art. What is the hope children have of India, going forward? To know the answer, the theme given to...
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‘What can you do for this country?’ – Gandhiji
The morning is pleasant, and sitting on the lawn of the Great Lakes Institute of Management campus is the school’s founder and dean, Dr Bala V. Balachandran. I begin my video shoot for a book project,...
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Never been a better time to be an entrepreneur: Rahul Khanna, MD, Canaan...
For wannabe entrepreneurs and those already in the game, a happy thought on the Independence Day, is this from Rahul Khanna, MD, Canaan Partners: “There has never been a better time to be an...
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Hunger is a very trainable thing, eat just enough, not more: Dr Gita Arjun
It was at a recent book launch that I had the opportunity of meeting Dr Gita Arjun, an eminent obstetrician and gynaecologist in Chennai. During the event, she had spoken about obesity. Therefore, when...
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Critical sectors invest significantly in testing: Rajesh Sundararajan,...
To understand the dynamics of the testing services industry, I had the benefit of a conversation with Rajesh Sundararajan, Practice Head, Testing services, Marlabs Software, Bangalore. In this...
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Always get up one more time than you have fallen: Vijay Kapoor, Managing...
A journey of a thousand mile starts with the first step, begins Vijay Kapoor, Managing Director, Derby Clothing Pvt Ltd, Chennai (http://www.derbyjeanscommunity.com/). “This first step was that of...
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In search of the master
Occasionally, there is a mail from a reader, saying that she began to read a story with an eager expectation of finding some inspiring material but was sorely disappointed that the story did not give...
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Do not take advice from everyone: Arvindkumar Alagarswamy, Founder, Attune...
One of the panel members at a recently-held healthcare event organised by Helion Advisors was Arvindkumar Alagarswamy, CEO and founder, Attune Technologies Pvt Ltd (www.attunelive.com). After the...
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Chatting up with Raghava KK
Among the first to arrive at the venue of TechSparks 2013, Pune, was the chief speaker of the afternoon, Raghava KK (http://www.raghavakk.com). With about two hours to go for the event to start, it was...
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Opportunity to invest in India continues to be very strong: Kanwaljit Singh,...
Meet Kanwaljit Singh, Co-founder and Senior Managing Director, Helion http://www.helionvc.com/kanwaljit.htm. He has over two decades of experience in venture investing, and serves on the boards of...
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Fragmentation of supply side is the reality: Parag Dhol, MD, Inventus...
When a country is diverse, and entrepreneurship is very ground up, we will have many examples of startups focusing on solutions to the fragmentations in supply chain, says Parag Dhol, MD, Inventus...
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How to be a successful entrepreneur: K. Chandrasekhar, Founder & CEO, Forus...
What are the things that make entrepreneurs successful? Market, ethics, team, and vision, says K. Chandrasekhar, Founder & CEO, Forus Health Pvt Ltd. Read on. Market The most important thing is the...
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We encourage the entrepreneur inside the rickshaw driver: Autowale COO...
Autowale is one of the few dial-a-rickshaw companies in India that has not just survived in this industry but shown profits as well, underlines Autowale’s COO, Janardan Prasad, in a telephonic and...
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Rainbow Children’s Medicare receives investment of Rs 100 cr from CDC, UK,...
Rainbow Children’s Medicare Private Limited (http://www.rainbowhospitals.in) has received an investment of Rs 100 crore from CDC, the UK’s development finance institution and The Abraaj Group, in the...
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Investor has lost one complete multiple because of the rupee fall – Kapil...
How does the fall of Indian rupee impact the investors? Listen to Kapil Khandelwal, Director, EquNev Capital P Ltd, discuss how the PEs, VC managers, and the ventures are affected by the depreciation...
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Choose a domain where you see a blue ocean: Mayur Abhaya, CEO, LifeCell...
If you are an entrepreneur who wants to start a new company, here are a few things that Mayur Abhaya, CEO, LifeCell International P Ltd, offers as suggestions: Choose a domain where it is a ‘blue...
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