With a very diverse cuisine-driven restaurant industry, Scotland has gained significant prominence over the last decade and has a lot to offer to the culinary sector, he said adding that Edinburgh and Glasgow are the obvious choices to expand into.<br />
Apart from taking driving enthusiasts for expeditions, it also takes care of all the paper work of the participants.
About 2000 entrepreneurs are expected to participate in the summit being organised by Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) in association with Technopark-Technology Business Incubation Centre (T-TBI), Technopark, Infopark, KINFRA, Start Up Village, TiE Kerala and CII.<br />
"Ultra-thin napkins are made with super absorbent polymer or 'magic gel', that makes them more absorbent, thinner and sexier," explains Dharia confirming he's not in this business despite Paree being five percent costlier to produce. "We have 150 million women in our current target audience to cater to and they don't need a sexy product - they need to get used to using a napkin first."
The 13-week global accelerator program will connect entrepreneurs to peers, mentors, advisors and investors in India, Singapore, San Francisco, New York, Boston and Toronto through a slew of partners. Some partners include Impact Hub in SFO, New York and Singapore, Communitech, University of Waterloo in Canada, Intuit in Bengaluru, Investopad in Gurgaon, and Mass Challenge in Boston.<br />
Under the proposed norms, crowdfunding platforms can be provided by only Sebi-registered entities, while companies can raise up to Rs 10 crore in a year through this route.<br />
Currently, the on line food ordering platform operates in a market place model and has a presence in 30 cities (in India).<br />
Private equity investor Ranjan Pai of the Manipal Group, Career Launcher's Satya Narayanan, venture capitalist Mahesh Murthy of Pinstorm, and two financial investors have come together to fund the creation of 'India's largest education marketplace.' The investors will also mentor the company as it grows.<br />
Following the footsteps of Amazon yet again, Flipkart is planning to launch tablets under its range of private label electronics, DigiFlip
"There are 150 sizes available in the world, in India we get 30," says Ganesh. She's launching with 58 sizes of brassieres from 28A-44G across a basic and season range. The former will have six styles in four colors each and the latter, a fancier one, has three styles in three colors each, both priced between Rs. 900 - Rs. 1000.
These nimble start-ups, most of them based in Bangalore, offer niche cutting-edge technology products, solutions and services that traditional outsourcing companies don't offer, or can't offer at competitive rates.<br />
While junior level people get paid Rs 5.50 lakh per annum, those at the mid-level and senior-level get paid Rs 15 lakh and Rs 35 lakh a year, respectively, which is at par or above the more traditional and mature organisations.<br />
Given the current tremendous response, we believe it is most certain that more people will be interested in crowdfunding.
Almost all the online players, be it in retail, electronics or food, are aiming to improve their delivery system and offerings with an eye on raking in the consumers and the money that follows.
India's biggest online retailer, Flipkart, is opposing FDI in e-commerce as they believe it will only benefit 'one company
Its current round of funding saw participation from existing investors -- Sequoia Capital, Smile Group, Norwest Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Nokia Growth Partners.<br />
It was not such much that the new hires had stopped performing but the old hands were preventing the new hires from performing.
The company has been aggressively hunting for new avenues to increase advertising revenue and the SME sector in India, which has over 25 million firms, could play a crucial role.<br />
According to the industry body, which represents the over $118 billion Indian IT-BPO industry, the country has showed promising prospects for developing technologies and solutions and many large multinationals are reporting that 70 percent of their emerging markets solutions are coming from India.<br />
A nocturnal delivery service in Mumbai that can get you everything from condoms to Chinese manchurian to chips between 9 pm and 5 am.
A more robust online retail sector will spur manufacturing and help an economic revival, said the people, who are privy to discussions within the new government. An announcement is expected in next month's budget.<br />
In nations like Israel, US and Hong Kong, strong government backing has created an ecosystem for entrepreneurship to thrive, thereby making entrepreneurs accountable for the largest amount of job creation.
Bansal said the primary reasons for raising investments was to have a buffer of funds in the bank to meet demands of a capital-intensive industry like e-commerce.
Last week, Firstbiz reported on the progress made by NASSCOM's pioneering 10,000 Startups program and its plans for sparking the entrepreneurial flame in Tier-II and Tier-III cities. Following that the program's senior director Rajat Tandon spoke to us about the lessons NASSCOM has learnt from its first year of the program and how it intends on working with the new government to encourage India's nascent but promising entrepreneurial scene.<br />
It has a unique model with a price of just Rs 20 per transaction, irrespective of the size of the deal.
The portal has raised USD 20 million in a Series C round of funding, the company said in a statement, adding that the existing investors did not participate in the current round. <br />
The city-based company also seeks to triple its seller base to 100,000 by March 2015
he entrepreneur's maturity to solve problems and build a product that fits into the gaps in the market. They are now tackling global challenges.