Here are some pointers with helping founders find people for their teams.
This column draws upon the several startup situations I have been or advised in and covers some essential considerations in such a discussion.
Those in solid founder teams too don't just have a collective experience; they also have their own, personal experiences of the founding journey.
The excessive media focus on techies as startup founders often makes non-techies doubt their ability to found and build a startup and create value.
Asking for help is an essential founder survival skill.
As we have discussed before in this column series, founders benefit from creating a scaffold, a structure that enables future success at scale, without them needing to come back later and fix things that should have been done right the first time.
Startups in India face numerous challenges at different stages in terms of incorporation, fund raising and hiring and they need adequate support to tide over these difficulties and minimise failures, says a report.
Google is finally looking to acquire startups in India. The search giant is looking to invest in Indian startups and is reportedly in talks with various entities, including various venture capital (VC) firms.
In the basement of a Bangalore building, hundreds of young Indians sit in neat rows of desks typing furiously, all dreaming of becoming the new Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg.
After the successful launch in Bengaluru, US tech giant Oracle on Wednesday expanded its Startup Cloud Accelerator programme to New Delhi and Mumbai to help fuel cloud-enabled innovation.
A healthcare startup founder I know was in a dilemma. For a pretty sizeable chunk of the equity pie, she had agreed to take on as cofounder a tech development guy. He would in turn build the platform which would enable her business model. As delivered, the platform however was far from adequate.
Fyers has introduced a thematic investment platform that allows anyone to invest in their ideas, without actually looking at the stocks.
To be fair, building organisational culture is usually not on many founders’ radars in the early days, when much must be done in very little time.
The advice of a competent, experienced startup lawyer is something founders would do well to pay for.
PayPal has announced the launch of the fifth edition of the PayPal Incubator Challenge. The Internet company formally invites the applications for early-stage financial tech companies.
In India's new startup war involving global wannabes and local "Unicorn" entrepreneurs with companies that involve market valuation in excess of one billion US dollars, the answer to "Who will win the e-commerce war?" may well be: "the one that has better Indians."
Europe's biggest energy companies have ploughed more than 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) into startups, according to Reuters calculations
Amid the corporate war raging within Tata Sons, which has also highlighted Ratan Tata's work as angel investor in startups after his earlier retirement in 2012, startup founders have come out in strong support of the Tata scion.
Pebble, one of the most popular Kickstarter project and a struggling smartwatch maker could be acquired by Fitbit.
A startup, while it works to make revenue with its product or service, incurs essential costs. A shoestring budget calls for resourcefulness and creativity in building the business.
Lurking somewhere behind the booming smartphone segment is an active 'seconds' market. And, hasn't it always been there?
This doesn't come as a surprise as all through the year there have been reports around how startups will feel the pinch of the slowing funding.
For the enterprising and social savvy Indian, the picture-sharing social media app Instagram has emerged as one of the newest frontiers of business.
Amazon had quietly acquired a San Francisco-based startup called Biba Systems last year.
Google has announced the seven startups from India that will be a part of the search giant's third edition of Launchpad Accelerator.
The latest announcement from digital payments platform FreeCharge has reveals it is targeting to onboard one million merchants in the coming one year.
At an event held today, Ola launched Ola Play, a connected car platform for ride sharing. The online taxi service claims that the platform will transform the in-car experience for users like never before.
Qwiklabs was founded in 2012 and offers hands-on lab learning environments for cloud platforms and infrastructure vendors. The financial terms aren't disclosed.
Bosch India has launched its first accelerator program for startups called ‘discover, nurture and align - DNA.’
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