Finance is the holy grail for startup entrepreneurs. If you find it and manage it well, it can do wonders for your venture, but if you make few mistakes managing finance, it can break your back. It’s important to understand the basics of finance as an entrepreneur, without trying to become an expert like CA. …
Have you ever thought why there is more number of “employee” sets of working population than “entrepreneur” set of population? The reasons lie in two things: Personal attributes and the socio-economic ecosystem around us. I shall highlight the role of each of these factors here in this article. In this article you should also be …
Who Will Be An Entrepreneur And Who Will Be An Employee? Read More »
Myth #1. The Success of a start-up depends more on Entrepreneurial Talent of the founders: True that some natural talent always helps in making an entrepreneurial success. But this is not a necessity. Entrepreneurship wisdom can be learnt also. Entrepreneurship is certainly not a new concept and many studies have been done in this field …
Is it worth to spend your time on strategizing everything when you can easily outsource it to some equally-zealous service? Well, the question is a tricky one. There could be a no fits-all answer to this. The solution provided by services companies could be the major factor in deciding whether one should go for this …
Entrepreneur Chris Benjamin: founder of RogueCFO.com Read More »
I have met several techies (including website owners, mobile app developers, entreprise software developers etc.) in the past, who have all the love for creating cool products but rarely any inclination for selling. Reasons for that may include any or all of the below: 1. Fear of facing the customer’s rejection 2. Lack of confidence …
Job axing is done almost everywhere. In the last recession, where almost the whole reeled under severe economic downtime, many professionals lost their jobs. Job losing is not an easy event to face for a well-doing professional, who is dreaming almost everyday to achieve higher and higher goals. There are dreams to enrich the expertise, …
Entrepreneur Robert Shindell: President and "Career Doctor" at ILostMyJob Read More »
Online marketing is a generalized term nowadays. Almost everybody, and you can mean it to be exact, everybody seems to be an expert in online marketing. Lots of people crack friends puns on people who dare to call them SEO guys or experts. However, whatever may be the amount of generalization, businesses can’t do without …
Interview with Kapil Gupta: co-founder of OMLogic Read More »
In the game of entrepreneurship, an individual, a team or a group of people combine to make a winning difference. More often than not, an entrepreneurial venture starts to solve a problem, providing a solution, or making some process easy. Launching new products is also an option explored by entrepreneurs but it could be termed …
What entrepreneurs can learn from Commonwealth Games 2010: 5 entrepreneurial lessons Read More »
Entrepreneurship is a continuous phenomenon. Like a tree that grows from the very ground, depending upon its sources but developing its strength to withstand the tests of variety of weathers, an entrepreneur makes its way through the business community. Though trees are innumerable but an entrepreneur never loses its value. It is always respected and …
Entrepreneur Suryanarayanan A.–Chief Operations Officer, NSRCEL at IIM, Bangalore Read More »
Cricket is a fascinating sport. Long ago, it was branded as the gentleman’s game. However, in the recent past, as its exposure grew, it no longer enjoys the faith in the sportsmanship of players, except a few. Media, glamor, advertisement, new formats and injection of technology have given it a new angle and have rubbed …
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There are a lot of reasons cited by the employees working for start-ups. It is a no-brainer that joining a start-up or an early-stage company can do marvels to your career and self-satisfaction, which can never be matched with by joining a behemoth corporate. It can give you a good tagline: Its brand name that …
The kindergarten to grade 12, (K-12) market in India accounts for a substantial share of the total education market. This segment is estimated to be worth INR 20 bn and is expected to be growing at 14% per annum. If you introduce the multimedia tools and Internet for imparting education, you can seize a large …
e-Learning opportunity niches in India segment: K-12 (entrepreneurial opportunity) Read More »
Often, you are required to access a Linux PC from a Windows PC. Depending on the requirement, you may have to access Linux PC’s command line or the graphical user interface (GUI). For the purpose of accessing Linux PCs, there are many methods and tools. In this article, we use just a couple of tools …
India, growing as a strong economy in present-day world, is a popular destination for international community to start a business or fund a venture. From the time of boom in IT industry till the latest economic slowdown, India has seen it all and has sustained the sine-wave nature of business world. Like a juggernaut that …
10 entrepreneur resources to do business in India (downloadable PDF guides) Read More »
Internet is replete with articles, blogs and personal thoughts about the value and importance of social media for startups, entrepreneurs and small businesses. Almost everybody endorses the fact that social media marketing (or presence at least) should be adopted by all businessmen irrespective the scale of their ventures. With Facebook’s popularity rivaling Google itself, it …
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A cron job in Linux is an automatic scheduled task. Say for instance you want to run a system maintenance operation that would remove unwanted files. You might not want to do this when you are actually using the system for it would intervene with your (more important) work. Instead of spending your working time …
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About Abhishek Abhishek believes in the creation of wealth and degrees of freedom. After a short stint in the telecom division of Satyam, Abhishek discovered that his true calling was entrepreneurship. He co-founded Six DEE Telecom Solutions, a telecom value added services company and grew the business to span nine countries and fifteen operators. In …
Entrepreneur Abhishek Sinha: co-founder and CEO of Eko India Read More »
Spandana, one of the largest microfinance companies in India, has scaled up its Agri-family loans (titled Dharani, these loans are given to small, marginal and tenant farmers for agriculture purpose). It has disbursed over Rs.500 crore to small and marginal farmers till September 30, 2010, after successfully completing a three-year pilot run in Andhra Pradesh. …
Spandana reduces 3% interest on agri-family loans Read More »
Although the monopoly of the desktop market is still dominated by Microsoft Windows, Linux has long since established itself as the most viable option for server based computing environments. Therefore, most of the network systems nowadays, regardless the number of hosts that are always connected through one or more Linux servers. Due to this multi-infrastructural …
If you desire to have better control and infinite freedom to customize your Linux powered mobile device, the rooting process will definitely leverage your expectations. Linux based systems are well recognized for extensive use of access control. The root user, or more commonly referred to as root is the user with the highest level of …