Understanding Solar Power Solar power can be understood as the production of electricity from sunlight. There are two ways of harnessing solar power namely direct and indirect. Photovoltaics (PV) is the most common method in which sunlight is used to create electron flow in a photovoltaic cell. The other indirect way of generating... 

Authors: Bharti Chhatre and Mamta Mittal from Evalueserve Executive Summary Indian real estate companies are booking revenues even before they start the construction. This is possible under the currently used percentage of completion method of accounting, which allows companies to book revenues provided an agreement of sale... 

The innovation in electronic devices has always driven a good market all over the world. When incandescent bulbs were being replaced by CFLs, another technology was pushing its head to replace the newest one–LED. Light Emitting Diode technology has now emerged as a major replacement in many products and has changed the... 

While you think of a garden, lawn or field, what you would focus your imagination on? Its beautiful plants, grass or scenic beauty that the flowers might have created, right? But being an entrepreneur or looking to start a business around gardens, what will pop up in your mind?  Read More →

Have you seen children running behind a balloon-seller in the streets? If you have a family, are you being repeatedly pestered by demands to buy balloons by your own children? Then, you are right there. Balloons are one of those items that have wide range of varieties and offer business opportunities from very micro-level to... 

Picked from Wikipedia: India is both densely populated and has high solar insolation, providing an ideal combination for solar power in India. Much of the country does not have an electrical grid, so one of the first applications of solar power has been for water pumping, to begin replacing India’s four to five million... 

Business Ideas around flowers Being an entrepreneur gives you an ability to look into business ideas in almost every object that the eye perceives. Now, while clicking some photos of flowers like this, I happen to stop and think what business ideas are there that an entrepreneur can make out from flowers. Let’s list them... 

A few months back, I took an exercise involving visiting four different food outlets and spending an hour in each one of them and observing the profile of customers. I was in Gurgaon and decided to visit, McDonald, KFC, Nirula’s and Pizza Hut. Apart from noticing the profile of customers, I noticed a particular thing: McDonald... 

If you go to the countryside in India, you will notice the usage of buffalo dung for various functions. The primary one is as a fuel for cooking while pasting walls and floors of the houses is another one. It is noticeable here that pasting of walls and floors by cow or buffalo dung is believed to have anti-ceptic properties... 

Following are some general questions regarding the role of a funding agency and mentoring offered by Mumbai Angels. These questions are general queries and specific queries could be asked by contacting the Mumbai Angels. As Funding Agency Q1: While someone approaches Mumbai Angels for funding, what requirements one needs to...