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Currency depreciation does not spell gloom for new entrepreneurs – N....
Should a new entrepreneur or a startup in India be losing sleep over the falling rupee? “No,” says N. Muthuraman, Co-founder, RiverBridge Investment Advisors Pvt Ltd, in a telephonic interview with...
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[Startup in 60 seconds] Sanjay D. Nath, Founder & Managing Partner, Blume...
One teacher I remember, and why Prof Eric Mokover at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Business (where I did my MBA). He encouraged us to think of b-school as the “one place we can all try things and...
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An intern brings a fresh pair of eyes: Ashwin S. Chhabria, CA student
“A Loyola student, looking forward to a great life ahead, beyond CA.” That’s how Ashwin introduces himself. Recently, he did an internship at Goldman Sachs, for eight weeks, after selection through...
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What makes startups succeed: Anish Rajgopal, Founder Director of Chemtrols Solar
At a press briefing announcing a major solar installation, I met Anish Rajgopal, Founder Director of Chemtrols Solar, and asked him what makes startups succeed. If you are very passionate about...
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Challenges to achieving supply chain efficiencies
Darshan Satghar In this quick telephonic interview, on a Saturday evening, DarshanSatghar, Head – eCommerce, Sahara Q Shop, answers a few questions about the patterns he sees in buying, the...
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Startups benefit from sound product management techniques
Do startups need product leaders? Yes, says Pinkesh Shah, Co-founder and Director of Programs, Institute of Product Leadership(www.productleadership.in). “Most founders have to transition from focusing...
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What drives us is nothing but passion– Dr S. Manivannan, Joint Managing...
Every entrepreneur will face a lot of challenges, and only perseverance keeps you alive, keeps your organisation alive, says Dr S. Manivannan, Joint Managing Director, Kauvery Hospital...
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We have taken diabetes as the focus area – V. S. Badri Narayanan, Founder,...
Meet V. S. Badri Narayanan (Badri), Founder of NRich Software P Ltd (www.diasof.com), a software product aficionado who firmly believes that India’s dream of superstar status in the global arena can be...
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Ready to try out organic farming – Lognathan, Kumar, Small farmers
Loganathan, Kumar Meet the typical face of rural India, Lognathan, and Kumar, who have small holdings for agriculture. Having tried chemical fertilisers and pesticides, these farmers are now willing to...
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What makes a project succeed in villages – Vellore C. Srinivasan, Project...
Vellore C. Srinivasan is project director and consultant for solid and liquid resource management in the Indian Green Service (http://indiangreenservice.com), an environmental protection and service...
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Foreign delegations looking for Indian companies to invest overseas
Some of the visitors to the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry have been the foreign delegations coming to Chennai. “What are they looking for?” I asked the Chamber president, T. Shivaraman. They...
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Namma Chennai, a city celebration
Gaspar Raj Every geography has a history. In the history of Chennai, August 22 is a special day. For, “It was on 22 August, 1639, that a sliver of land, where now stands Fort St George, was handed over...
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From ‘Speech Expands Reach’ to ‘Interactions Simplified’
A company that is eleven years old is normally not seen as a startup. Yet, it is heartening to find Mohan Ram .C, Managing Director of LatticeBridge Infotech Pvt Ltd, looking back at the 4,000+ days of...
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Dairies and dollars
We can keep talking about dollar appreciation and rupee depreciation, and hear a lot of predictable oohs and aahs from the audience, till the cows come home. Instead, if we go where the cows are, we...
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Rajas and Ranis on three wheels
‘One dream, two words, ten digits, and twenty lakh lives.’ To that statement of AutoRaja, you can add, ‘Three wheels.’ The story of AutoRaja, co-founded by Anubhav Agrawal and Aishwarya Raman, as a...
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This world is called karma bhoomi, and work is itself a gift
On Janmashtami, while celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna, what generally grab our attention are the colourful festive dances and the whole array of puja offerings. It may help also to think for a...
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Transformational service leadership through Karma Yoga – Venkat R. Krishnan,...
How do you inculcate responsible behaviour in B-school students? Through LEP (Leadership Experiential Project) or ‘Karma Yoga’, says Venkat R. Krishnan, Director, Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management...
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Respect customers, that’s the survival secret – G. Kannan, Founder, GK Salon
At a busy intersection in Chennai, where St. Mary’s Road connects with Ramakrishna Mutt Road, is G. Kannan’s shop, ‘GK Gents Hair Saloon & Beauty Parlour A/c’. Standing outside, on the platform,...
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Farmers dared the drought and transformed Tirupur into Billion ‘Dollar City’
At an event announcing ‘the launch of world’s second and India’s first 1 MWp rooftop grid-connected solar PV plant with DG synchronisation, designed, engineered, installed and commissioned by Chemtrols...
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Two rabbits, one rabbit : Focus on ‘the ONE thing’
If you have already read Subroto Bagchi’s ‘The Elephant Catchers’ you would have, in all probability, given up on carrying a dead rabbit as the trophy back home, and gone chasing scale, instead. But...
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