After a remarkable performance that offered a high dose of informative entertainment to its viewers, The Vault, a one-of-its-kind Indian reality TV show has concluded its extremely-successful first season. The season comprised 12 episodes and facilitated investments worth up to Rs 11 crore. The i…
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Women leadership on a rise in Indian start-ups: Report
While much has been written about the difficulties faced by women entrepreneurs, the Startup Outlook Report by InnoVen Capital, a venture lending platform providing debt capital to high growth ventures, has presented a different but progressive scenario of the Indian startup ecosystem. According …
Indian businesses set terms for investments in Zimbabwe
Indian businesses need to have confidence in the market in long term projects if they are to invest in Zimbabwe, the Asian giant’s National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC) has said. NSIC Chairperson, Ravindra Nath told on the sidelines of the official proceedings after the visiting I…
BSE SME platform became first SME platform in India to receive 200 prospectus
Mumbai: Indian Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector has emerged as a highly vibrant and dynamic sector of the Indian economy over the past few years. SMEs not only play crucial role in providing large employment opportunities at comparatively lower capital cost than large industries but also…
IndiaMART partners with TiE Delhi-NCR for annual SME Conclave 2017
IndiaMART,India’s largest online marketplace, organized the annual SME Conclave 2017 in association with TiE Delhi-NCR at the Welcome Hotel Sheraton in Saket, New Delhi. Themed ‘SMEs in new India’, the conclave featured several leaders from the industry discussing various facets of young business…
Exports up 4.32% to $22.11 bn in Jan
India’s exports rose 4.32 per cent in January to USD 22.11 billion mainly due to increase in shipments of petroleum products, engineering goods and iron ore even as trade deficit widened to USD 9.84 billion. Gold imports slipped by 29.94 per cent to USD 2.04 billion in January from USD 2.91…
Why MSMEs should manage their digital assets
If you do a quick search for what constitutes an asset, Investopedia would define it as “anything of value that can be converted into cash”. Taking it further, if we prefix ‘digital’ to ‘assets’, it funnels down to specific operational assets that use digits, p…
Six steps to running a successful business
Business is the least understood word even by an entrepreneur. Colloquially, ‘business’ is defined as any ‘activity that results in profits’. Is there a larger meaning to the profit making? Is making profit only tangible in results? Can the same be assigned a larger meanin…
MSME Ministry to provide employment to 1 cr families by power of solar charkhas: Giriraj Singh
Ahmedabad: The Union Minister of state for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises — Giriraj Singh — who was in Ahmedabad on February 14, said that the focus of his Ministry was to provide employment to one crore families by using the power of solar charkhas. The initiative, which began in Khanwan …
Govt makes no allocation for Start-Up Fund for next fiscal
The government has made no provision for its ambitious India Aspiration Fund, part of StartUp India initiative, for the next financial year and has reduced the allocation to Rs 100 crore from Rs 600 crore made earlier for the current fiscal. In order to provide support to startups through Fund of…