Small businesses are backbone of Indian economy
In the past, I have written a few times in this blog about “Challenges of Doing business in India” and “Running a Product business in India“. Is it only thorns…
Entrepreneurship
TiECon Chennai 2014
The Chennai chapter of TiE (a global body for encouraging Entrepreneurship) organizes an annual conference called TiECON. TiECON Chennai 2014 happened for last two days at ITC Grand Chola. Day…
Founding & Quick demise of Mango Idiots
(Flashback Post: April 2, 2000) In the height of Dot com boom at April 2000, along with two of my friends (Satheesh Ramamurthy & Srivatsan) we launched Mangoidiots.com. By then…
Motivation for Budding Entrepreneurs
The other day I got an email from a person representing Startup Saturday inviting me to do a talk @ IIT Madras Department of Management Studies. On a follow-up phone…
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev on Entrepreneurship in India
In today’s Mint newspaper there was an interview by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev of ISHA Foundation titled “Indian businesses don’t understand branding”. He precisely lists what’s holding back Indian businesses –…
Running a product business in India
Today one of my friends called me for a routine catch-up, he is is running a start-up firm in Rajasthan (India) developing software products . We discussed many things, including…
IT SME Association & Tamil Nadu IT Secy Talk
Today was the second AGM of our association – ITSME Association at Hotel Savera. The association was formed by an energetic team of SME entrepreneurs from Chennai a few years…
Doing business in Tamilnadu, India
Recently I received a report on the vision of Tamil Nadu Government for how the business climate should be in year 2025 in the state. The report was a joint…