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Horizontal vs Vertical Marketplace - Pick Your Winner

Feb 11, 2016

Niren Shah is the MD at India arm of global VC and growth equity firm Norwest Venture Partners. Interacting with Entrepreneur India, Shah puts in perspective the debate over horizontal and vertical marketplace in terms of opportunity in India. His personal favourite however remains vertical space. Shah has advised the firm's investments in companies like ...
Need for a robust angel investment ecosystem

Feb 11, 2016

One of the biggest start-up evangelists and leading IT entrepreneurs in India, Saurabh Srivastava, talking to Entrepreneur India, reflects on the need for more robust growth of angel investment in India, parallel to entrepreneurship and the current developments surrounding it. Srivastava is the founder of India's biggest angel network, Indian Angel Network having more than ...
Ecosystem not conducive for hardware startup revolution?

Feb 11, 2016

Shirish Sankhe, among Indias top experts on infrastructure and public sector practices. In a dialogue with Entrepreneur India, he suggests areas which needs tremendous focus, especially on the government side, to boost manufacturing/hardware start-ups to flourish and broader view on Indias objective to achieve around 10% GDP. Sankhe currently surving as director at McKinsey India ...
From corporate czar to start-up hustler

Feb 11, 2016

Former Group CEO of healtcare giant Fortis Healthcare, Vishal Bali put on entrepreneur hat leaving his flourshing corporate career. It all changed when his elderly father told him how challenging visiting hospitals is for elderly patients for their periodic check-ups. Bali talks about his transition and life as a start-up entrepreneur in a chat with ...
Engaging with start-ups to tap innovation

Feb 11, 2016

Anand Deshpande running the Pune-based global software development firm Persistent Systems is focusing on working with start-up by engaging with them through investment opportunities. He details out the action plan for the firm along with new opportunity and investment from the new fund launched recently for start-ups in a dialogue with Entrepreneur India.
Fashion discover-ability through social network gaining ground

Feb 11, 2016

Roposo which helps women to discover latest trends in fashion curated and updated from different brands and e-commerce destinations was started by Avinash Saxena and two other IIT-Delhi alumni and has more than 2 million users currently. In an interaction with Entrepreneur India, Saxena shares the journey so far and market opportunity at large.
Entrepreneurship without purpose has no meaning

Feb 11, 2016

A marketing wizard, one of most sought after investors, excellent corporate speaker, brand advisor etc., Mahesh Murthy wears multiple hats with ease. In his current role he runs early stage investment firm, Exceed Fund. Talking to Entrepreneur India, Murthy stresses on why entrepreneurs should always be surrounded by meaningful people to build a great team, ...