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Madras Stock Exchange’s stock labs program – fostering entrepreneurial...
Madras Stock Exchange has been working with college campuses to nurture entrepreneurial thinking through stock market related programmes. To know more about this initiative, YourStory connected with V....
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Cultural entrepreneurship in India – Aditya Mukherjee, author of ‘Boomtown’
Meet Aditya Mukherjee, a graduate of IIM Bangalore and the author of Boomtown – a story of food, friendship, romance, and the adventure of entrepreneurship, with four friends coming together for...
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Topic Minder: A tool for researching a topic – Dorai Thodla, CEO, iMorph Inc.
Dorai Thodla needs no introduction to startup entrepreneurs, especially in Chennai. He is one of the ‘Top 10 Indian Role Models in the Startup Domain.’ Dorai’s enterprise iMorph builds tools, and...
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Journey from IT to dairy farming: Santhosh D. Singh, Founder, Amrutha Dairy...
It is well past sunset, and the farm animals have begun their rest, except for a calf playing around. And, my guest for the evening telephonic interview, Santhosh D. Singh, is carrying on the...
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Zoomdeck: For consuming images as elements that are interactive – Amarnath...
Launching on September 3, as an iOS app and a web product open to the public, is Zoomdeck. A few days ahead of the launch, YourStory caught up with Amarnath Vannarath, Co-founder, Zoomdeck, over the...
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Entrepreneurial activity in prison camp
Economic institutions can arise in very strange and difficult circumstances, points out Tim Harford in ‘The Undercover Economist Strikes Back’ (Hachette). He cites the article by Robert A. Radford,...
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Elephant and the bamboo – Calm your mind and focus on the objective
You know the elephant-rabbit story, and the two-rabbits-one-rabbit story. Here is one more: Elephant and the bamboo, as narrated by Eknath Easwaran in ‘The Mantram Handbook’ (Jaico). The mind is often...
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Before life makes its point – The CEO Code
One of the many stories that I have heard from Jaggi Vasudev is about a young lion that was very proud, as a matter of routine. More importantly, the lion in this story sought validation at every turn....
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A fulfilling life, with so little – India from the eyes of a US student
Doing a lot with a little – this is one of the takeaways from India, for Julia Hisey, a senior-year Business undergraduate student of the Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, who was...
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Needed, a playbook for entrepreneurship – Rahul Khanna, MD, Canaan Partners
Has media done enough for entrepreneurship? What does Rahul Khanna, Managing Director of Canaan Partners, have to say about this? Listen in. The media has done a great job. Be it TV or online, the...
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Profits are made on the shop floor – V. R. Janardhanam, Former COO, Sundaram...
The former Chief Operating Officer of Sundaram Brake Linings Ltd, V. R. Janardhanam, is a renowned expert in the manufacturing sector. During a recent interaction with him, at his residence, I heard...
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Lord Ganesh is the ultimate CEO, and he has a COO too!
Looking at Lord Ganesh as the god is common. But, here is Bala V. Balachandran – Founder of Great Lakes Institute of Management – explaining how he views Lord Ganesh as the ultimate CEO. Huge head –...
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Three words for entrepreneurs – R Ramaraj, Senior Advisor, Sequoia Capital India
Business plan, funding, and scale: these are the three words that R Ramaraj, Senior Advisor, Sequoia Capital India, sees as the most important words for entrepreneurs. Business plan – How do you...
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Goa Project, for building a community that is cross-sectoral: Vijay Anand,...
When meeting Vijay Anand, the Founder-CEO of The Startup Centre, at a GBG event, I asked him about the Goa Project. The agenda of the Goa Project is to build a community that is cross-sectoral, which...
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Three words for entrepreneurs – Lakshmi Narayanan, President, TiE Chennai
“For startups and entrepreneurs, there are three words that I can think of immediately. Two that are positive, and one that is important,” says Lakshmi Narayanan, President, TiE Chennai. Fear – This is...
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Startup in 60 Seconds – Rajiv Mehta, MD, Puma India
One teacher I remember, and why Mr Bhatia, my Math teacher in 9th and 10th grades. He was very thorough. He used the carrot-and-stick formula very well. He knew how to simplify the concepts and make...
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How to get the best out of your people – N Venkataramani, CMD, India Pistons Ltd
If you keep worrying about managing your people, listen to N Venkataramani, the Chairman and Managing Director of India Pistons Ltd, offering you a few simple and practical tips. He has been with the...
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Three words for entrepreneurs – Srinivasan (Vishy) Viswanathan, Executive...
Srinivasan (Vishy) Viswanathan, a prominent force in TiE Chennai, has been a champion of many progressive initiatives for entrepreneurs. He could have come up with ten most important words for...
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We are making our own textbooks – S S Nathan, Bala Vidya Mandir
Meet S. S. Nathan, the recipient of the CBSE Best Teacher Award in 2006, and a name to reckon with in school education. He is currently the CEO of BVM Global. “You are no longer taking classes for...
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Set the right expectations for investors – Dr C J Vetrievel, Managing...
One of the panel members at a Helion event on healthcare was Dr C J Vetrievel, Managing Director, Be Well Hospital. He is an orthopaedic surgeon, who has practised medicine for a decade at various...
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