RBI Helpline To Assist Startups With Forex Issues

For young startups, negotiating the bewildering maze of foreign exchange regulations is often daunting. With Indian startups becoming increasingly global and doing business with entities based abroad, startups often need a ready reckoner on how to deal with monetary transactions that span across borders. In order to assist startups with such transactions, the Reserve Bank of India has announced a dedicated helpline to answer queries.

116 Samsung India Employees Earn More Than A Crore A Year; But 70% Of Them Are Korean

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has had a presence in India for two decades now. Having entered the country in December 2015, it now occupies thousands of feet of office space, employs thousands of people across diverse fields such as R&D and sales, and has a large imprint on India’s technical industry. It’s a good paymaster as well – a full 116 Samsung India employees drew salaries of over Rs. 1 crore per year. But there was a problem. 70% of these people were of Korean origin.

Accel Records Phenomenal Gains From Selling Flipkart Stake

Venture Capital isn’t always the easiest form of investment. You take a bet on a small company with uncertain prospects. The company usually operates in a field that hasn’t been ventured into before, and there are few markers to tell you if it’ll succeed. And most don’t. Nearly 90% of startups fail, and Venture Capital firms are never able to recover their investments. But every once in a while, a startup succeeds. And when it does, the results can be astonishing.