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AI and IoT define the new India – not outsourcing or ecommerce

AI and IoT define the new India – not outsourcing or ecommerce

$13.3 million poured into AI and IoT startups on a single day shows the tech shift happening in India.
Sumit Chakraberty · · 6 min read
Startups are nailing their own coffins with VC hammers. Here’s a way to escape that fate

Startups are nailing their own coffins with VC hammers. Here’s a way to escape that fate

The craze for VC funding has created a distorted reality for entrepreneurs. A professor is out to prick the bubble.
Malavika Velayanikal · · 10 min read
Here seasoned founders make bulbs flash in the heads of newbies

Here seasoned founders make bulbs flash in the heads of newbies

What happened at an extraordinary closed-door bootcamp for startups in Pune.
Sumit Chakraberty · · 5 min read
To sell or not to sell? Things to consider when someone offers to buy your startup

To sell or not to sell? Things to consider when someone offers to buy your startup

Often exiting a business becomes the end goal for many entrepreneurs. But how to navigate that curvy road?
Harsimran Julka · · 4 min read
These 3 Indian software product startups are the toast of global CIOs

These 3 Indian software product startups are the toast of global CIOs

Artificial intelligence for customer support, language-as-a-service for multilingual markets, and a platform for finding tech partners – these were the picks of the hottest Indian software product startups.
Sumit Chakraberty · · 4 min read

45 hot software product startups from India and their cool ideas

Ecommerce hogs the funding headlines in India, but startups making innovative software products are the ones hitting international markets and becoming profitable.
Sumit Chakraberty · · 9 min read

India’s new annual budget leaves startups high and dry

Even as India’s finance minister announced his annual budget measures for the country on Monday, the startup industry was left a tad disappointed.
Harsimran Julka · · 4 min read

Something’s rotten in India’s startup scene – and it’s time to call it out

Easy fund flows and cheerleading from peers and media have lulled Indian startups into thinking they’re doing great. Now it’s time to face up to some hard truths.
Malavika Velayanikal · · 7 min read

SaaS is the new black – and it has found a place in Chennai

SaaSx 2015 in Chennai, India, was filled with insights from India’s top SaaS entrepreneurs.
Meghna Rao · · 4 min read

How India plans to turn ‘jugaad’ into large scale innovation

One way to solve India’s low rankings on global innovation boards is to tap into the brilliant market of jugaad that exists all over the country.
Meghna Rao · · 7 min read