While there are many accelerators operating in the Indian marketplace, one that stands out from the crowd is Jaarvis Accelerator (JA). Sponsored from Hong Kong and Singapore and operating in India, JA is an innovative venture by the Jaarvis Group, which strives to identify early stage sustainable startup ideas and help them turn into scalable business models.
An open letter to the colleague who eats noisily in office.
Murthy is also very private, and little is known about his personal life. But he’s offered a glimpse into his family life in an open letter to his daughter. He letter talks about her upbringing, the family’s struggles when they didn’t have enough money, and has sage advice that shall resonate with all young Indians.
Amongst all the reasons quoted for starting a startup, the most common ones are “wanting to create something”, “passion to do”, and “be independent”. Very few founders would blatantly admit “to be rich” as one. However, being rich just happens to be one of the by products of a successful startup. Nine out of ten startups fail, but the ones that do sustain really rake in the moolah. And it can happen very, very quickly. So it’s no wonder that in a burgeoning startups ecosystem in India, some of the youngest richest Indians are startup founders.
Here’s the list of these startup flounders in the order of wealth and age.
As students spend the butt ends of their college lives, they live lives of entitlement and hyper sensitivity. The biggest banes of a student life could range from a slow internet connection to a bad date.
However, this CEO and a experienced professional wants to say it like it is. Kyle Reyes, the CEO of a marketing firm Silent Partner and a keynote speaker who’s well into his 40s, wrote an open letter addressing today’s millennials – people born in the late 80s/Early 90s. With the letter, he wishes to set the record about the professional life straight and present the bare facts about a career, instead of a rosy view. He also is quite brutal in calling out some of the fallacies of this generation about their sensitive nature and sense of entitlement. And ultimately, Reyes shares some hard hitting, but crucial tips about career and making it big.
It’s no secret that there’s a huge gap between India’s rich and India’s poor, but the numbers are truly staggering. The richest 1%…
It’s the question on which the dreams of a thousands of Indians startups rest, but at least the government seems to be on their side. Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant thinks that brick and mortar stores will be dead by 2023, and e-commerce firms will come in and take their place.
The mercury is rising, heat levels are soaring, and all sorts of temperature records are being broken. While most of us have been whining about the hot summers, sitting in our AC offices that we get to sitting in AC cabs, the truth is that we have it pretty good. The full impact of the hot summers has been much worse for the thousands of workers who are out there on the roads, braving the heat head on.
So, next time you complain about the heat and feel like you need a “well deserved vacation” away from work, spare a thought for these folks.
Sachin Tendulkar has achieved everything one could possibly hope for in the world of cricket. And unlike other people, who start off slow,…