The government will kick-start the “Start-Up India, Stand-Up India” initiative with Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiling the Start-up Action Plan on January 16. This will be a government’s New Year gift to “young people” who want to set up new businesses or innovative projects, highlighting th…
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Venture Catalysts join hands with Plug & Play to help startups
Local seed investment and innovation platform Venture Catalysts has partnered with global incubator and seed fund Plug & Play International to help Indian startups get exposure to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors. To begin with, they will send two Indian startups working on artifici…
Nine startups join hands for an open net
Nine startup founders, including Zomato’s Deepinder Goyal, Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Mouthshut.com’s Faisal Farooqui and GoQii’s Vishal Gondal on Tuesday made a submission to the telecom regulator on the ongoing differential pricing paper consultation, urging it to pre…
36% SMEs in India yet offline | SHOPMATIC ready with ‘Go Digital’ plan
Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) will certainly be one of the big drivers of India’s growth in the coming years. As campaigns by Google and GoDaddy have shown over the years, it is not an easy job to get these smaller entities to go online, especially if those running it are not well-versed wit…
For Internet majors Small is BIG | FB, Google, Alibaba eye SMEs for growth
As they look at ways to monetize their platforms, internet companies in India seem to be aggressively targeting the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) space with dedicated offerings. In the recent past, companies such Facebook, Google and Alibaba have come up with platforms catering to the differe…
NASSCOM going big on start-up warehouse
National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) will be opening four more tech start-up incubation centres in different parts of the country by March 2016. At present, the sector body is running three such centres, which it calls start-up warehouses in the country. According to …