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Today what Anna considers to be her success is the fact that her counselees are not shy to seek help

Taiwan hardware companies could collaborate with India on healthcare and Smart City hardware requirements like autonomous vehicles, IoT devices in cars and smart security requirement

Sometimes the founders are really the best person to scale the company and at times the founders are much more interested in the early stages

Entrepreneur spoke to Siddhartha Das, a General Partner, and has been with Ventureast since January 2006.

VCs are more used to manage CEOs which is very different from managing a clerk

Being a profitable company, helped us bootstrap so long

This ecosystem isn't available at every state and our state is the only one that gives you the complete package of them," Mr. Kharge said

Founded by one of India's leading filmmakers Subhash Ghai, Whistling Woods International (WWI) is a Film, Television, Animation, Communication, Fashion, Music and Media Arts institute located in Mumbai, India. The ten-year old institute is spearheaded by the creative duo Rahul Puri and Ms Meghna Ghai Puri.

Companies are increasingly investing in state-of-the-art incubation centers and technology to help them improvise on efficiency and thereby minimize operating costs.

The government proposed to reduce the Income Tax for those companies with an annual turnover of upto Rs 50 crore to 25%. This aims to give the MSMEs a reduction of 5% from the current applicable rate of 30 percent

Abolition of FIPB would mean no need to seek approval for foreign investment in country. This would help in speeding the foreign investment as direct investment

Millennials are also a very productive generation. There are also those do stay on a little longer do so because they see their purpose aligned with the company goals

IIM alumni talk about their experience at the institute and how it has helped them hone their entrepreneurial skills

Several students also take up project courses aimed at validating their business models or designing a go-tomarket strategy for their planned ventures

An entrepreneur turned investor by definition is able to empathize with the founders because they have been there before.

In healthcare, you should love people. You should be very comfortable in dealing with people!

Trying to be the factory for the world is a mistake, that game is already gone. China and Taiwan did that many years ago.

You've got to understand your customers very well - HOusejoy CEO Saran Chatterjee

If you've signed up to a startup you've essentially signed up for the turbulent ride -Housejoy CEO Saran Chatterjee

Once SMEs have the right tools, they can grow their business.

As the Industrial Internet revolution comes closer to reality, GE's Narayanan is helping drive the creation of new value with market facing innovation at GE Global Research working with the GE businesses & customers.

Three entrepreneurs share their experience of tackling some of the toughest investor questions

PM Modi was speaking at the inaugural session of the Raisina Dialogue,India's flagship conference engaging with geopolitics and geo- economics.

"An immediate trend we see is the re-imagining of hiring through recruitment consultants."

"PM Modi himself has proved that he is an entrepreneur of the best kind by tackling the problem of converting India from an outsourcing hub into an innovation destination

"Collaborating with a fund is similar to collaborating with an entrepreneur"

Sheltering through the storm, mentorship, resources are three reasons why entrepreneurs pick accelerators

The challenge for social enterprises lie in recognizing unique opportunities and innovating around the business models

"...off-putting part is that the person chosen must not join the position of co-founder with the mindset of an employee otherwise; the entire process becomes a superfluous!"

Usage of debt needs to be well understood and over leveraging a company is not ideal - Vinod Murali, MD InnoVen Capital