Krea University Set up : Academia-Industry Join Hands to Transform Undergraduate Education.. ( 12 ) Comments

The dynamic and diverse world of 21st century offers a whole new set of challenges and opportunities – and the future leaders of this century need to adapt, have a sense of purpose and understand societal consequences to create impact in an ethical manner.  To deliver these outcomes, eminent academicians and corporate leaders have come together to announce the launch of Krea University.

The University's mission is to enable high potential individuals learn to create a posit...Read More »

Entrepreneurs Rise to the Occasion: Mission Green for SMEs.. ( 3 ) Comments

Who is not troubled by the mounting power bill resulting from fuel-guzzling ACs? Well, Fabonix, a Bhuvaneshwar-based startup, has devised a sustainable temperature control technology that produces a refrigerating effect inside buildings using solar and wind energy resources available at the roof top.

Patna-based Astric helps thousands of students continue their IT education, despite power cuts, by using renewable energy and shared computing. The company has helped the Bihar government...Read More »

Effective Score Keeping & Cost of Finance Function (COFF): Role of CFO/Financial Controller.. ( 3 ) Comments

Finance & Accounting (F&A) organisation is centre of attention as business scales up with more zeroes are being added on top-line and CFO/FC (Chief Financial Officer/Finance Controller) needs to gear up to taper the challenges of rising COFF.

For an SME, cost of finance function (COFF) is a function of how business owner would like to release its own bandwidth in terms of diverting it's time to business. Smart business owner would start building the finance function by in-hous...Read More »

Quikr Offers Faster, Better and Cheaper Online Visibility for SMEs.. ( 3 ) Comments

Quikr is India's leading horizontal classifieds company. Launched in July 2008, currently has presence in 40 cities across the country. Quikr provides the local community in every city a platform where consumers can buy, sell, rent, find something and address a need while doing so, in over 150 categories.

Quikr is backed by Matrix Partners India, Omidyar Network, Norwest Venture Partners and invested in by eBay Inc. Quikr was formerly known as Kijiji.in. The company was re-brande...Read More »

Udyami Mitra : Handholding Indian MSMEs.. ( 3 ) Comments

We all know that MSMEs occupy a prominent place in the policy architecture of Indian economy because of its significant contribution to the GDP, matchless capacity for employment generation and for providing an effective medium for growth of start-ups and innovation. 

As per IFC Report, 'Closing the Credit Gap for Formal and Informal Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises' , access to finance is one of the most important constraints faced by MSMEs, in addition to w...Read More »

Withering Heights: SMEs Wilting Under LE Dominance.. ( 2 ) Comments

Most businesses have evolved from the entrepreneurial initiatives of one inidual or a group of people. The idea behind such initiative is either an innovative product/ service to fill a gap in the market or a banal copy of an existing one with or without a twist. But whatever be the germinating reason, an enterprise does not become a large company from day one unless it is the sister concern of an established large enterprise. Companies have to go through the stages of small, medium and then ...Read More »

Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship: An Idea Worth Pursuing.. ( 2 ) Comments

Kim and Renee brought out the concept of Blue Ocean Strategy in 2004 through their research and writings and popularised it. That was related to the organizations that were trying to compete and were finding it difficult to sustain in the market full of related products and services and the pressures of the market in improving quality, reducing prices, designing well defended promotional schemes etc.  This is where BOS proposed to create a new market, develop a new product, convert noncu...Read More »

Nair Advocacy on Priority Lending .. ( 2 ) Comments

Flow of credit, adequate-timely & low priced to Micro & Small Enterprises both Manufacture and Services, assumes greater importance for its sustainable development. The majority enterprises are Micro most of which are in unorganized sector having a meager finance from Banks, even though they fall in Priority Sector. Priority Sector, it must be noted, has its seeds in the Credit Policy for the Year 1967-68 and besides Agriculture, Exports; the Small Scale Industries [currently MSEs] we...Read More »

Redefining Sound Clarity.. ( 2 ) Comments

Headphonezone.In

In conversation with Raghav Somani – Founder/CEO Headphone Zone

 

Headphone Zone (www.headphonezone.in) is India's first exclusive online store for Headphones, Earphones and Personal Audio devices. A unique retail concept combining Music, Electronics and Style, Headphone Zone aims to find a niche in the rapidly growing category in India's

E-Commerce space. A destination store for discovering the world's finest Headphone bran...Read More »

UAE Develops Happiness Formula.. ( 2 ) Comments

Can you measure happiness or draw a formula for how happy you are? As an individual, we may have various yardsticks to know how happy one is but can a nation make an elaborate agenda for measuring happiness in public life? Yes, UAE may be the only place in the world to make it happen.

When in Dubai, don't be surprised when you are accosted by a team of friendly officials with a volley of questions like 'where are you from?, where are you staying?, are you happy here? Please tell us if...Read More »