Accelerators are more sharply focused on the growth stage, providing startups mentoring as well as financing for shorter duration of 3-12 months to help kick-start their businesses
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Multinational companies need to create local opportunities: Satya Nadella
Microsoft’s India-born Chief Satya Nadella has said that multinational companies need to give back to local communities and generate businesses for them to ensure long-term growth at a time when politicians from major countries are harping on nationalism. “Any company that just collects rent inte…
The good, the bad & the ugly of start-up bootstrapping
What exactly does bootstrapping your start-up mean? For the uninitiated, bootstrapping your startup basically means to self-fund your business, i.e. using the existing resources and internal revenue to drive your business, instead of raising any external funds. Given the wide scale availability o…
3D design tech firm Autodesk reboots business, eyes start-ups, SMBs in India
Inspired by the successful transition of Adobe, Intuit and Microsoft’s business model—from sale of licenses to an ongoing subscription model—US-based technology firm Autodesk, which has been selling standalone perpetual licences for its popular software products, has moved to a subscription-only …
Microsoft buys artificial intelligence startup Genee
Software giant Microsoft has bought a smart scheduling app Genee, as part of its effort to embed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to compete with the likes of Google Now and Apple. The start-up, which was founded in 2014, will shut down its service on September 1. The financial terms of the deal were…