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Thursday, February 09th, 2012

"Companies with less than $100 million in revenues should not go for an IPO"

Small & medium enterprises (SMEs) may include puny firms across diverse sets of businesses but put together, they pack a punch and comprise a little less than half of the total industrial output and a large chunk of employment in the country. So it...

Wednesday, February 01st, 2012

Techcircle's Online Payments & Loyalty Conference Panel I- On Online Payments Infrastructure

A bustling e-commerce industry in India has naturally thrown up a vast market for e-payments. Although the presence of a huge consumer base without plastic money means new modes of offline payment have cropped up, e-payment is certainly the way to...

Monday, January 16th, 2012

"Returns in Education is not quick. Its a long haul"

Education as a business segment is still evolving in India even though it is a multi-billion-dollar field in this country and institutional investors need to be more patient while betting on the sector that comes tagged with long gestation period,...

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Aakash Can Be A Standalone Platform Like iPad: Suneet Singh Tuli, DataWind CEO

DataWind Ltd, widely known as the maker of world's cheapest Tablet Aakash, is riding high on its initial success. The Tablet device, launched with the aim of doing away with the digital divide in India, has got a 'massive' response, to say the...

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Some E-com Biz May Fail But Industry Won't: Founder, Smile Group

Harish Bahl, serial entrepreneur and founder of Smile Interactive Group, continues to be in an aggressive mode. He has recently set up Freecultr, which sells its own brand of apparel and accessories online, after investing in a slew of e-commerce...

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Snapdeal Bets On Lifestyle E-commerce

Snapdeal, the largest group buying site in the country, has been quickly ramping up its product sales. The two-year-old company, which has forayed into product sales nearly three months ago, already claims to be the largest e-tailer of lifestyle...

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Indian Entrepreneurs Become Too Happy, Too Soon: Naveen Tewari, InMobi

Naveen Tewari of InMobi is a confident man and has reasons to be so. Just four years after he founded InMobi, the Bangalore-based company has become the world's second-largest mobile advertising network after Google. Tewari, who is currently making...

Monday, December 12th, 2011

Dave McClure On Indian Internet, E-commerce & Start-ups

Dave McClure, a venture capitalist and the founding General Partner at 500 Startups (an Internet seed fund and start-up accelerator programme in Mountain View, California), was recently in India as part of his GOAP (Geek on a Plane) tour. The...

Tuesday, December 06th, 2011

Social Media A Competition, But Doesn't Impact Biz Yet: Hitesh Oberoi

It is only logical to expect that social networking giants like LinkedIn and Facebook are giving a tough time to Info Edge India, a home-grown Internet company that houses sites like Naukri.com (India's largest job site), among others. However,...

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Indian Entrepreneurs Need To 'Think Big': Lakshmi Narayanan

Indians probably represent one of the most entrepreneurial societies in the world today. However, there is still room for improvement, feel a few. And according to Lakshmi Narayanan, vice-chairman and ex-CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions,...