5 Indian Women Feature Amongst The Forbes Top 100 Most Powerful

OfficeChai Team

These women are taking the charge, making a dent, getting things done, influencing the powers that be, and changing the world. One stereotype broken at a time.
What’s heartening is that 5 of these women are Indian. In a country where women are still trying to find their feet in a largely male dominated public space, and battling issues like female infanticide, lack of sanitation and higher education, and sexual harassment, these women make the country proud.

Will The Pelican Come To Rescue The Nano?

Navin Bhatia

Seven years down the road, Nano is facing an uncertain future. Against an installed capacity of 250,000 cars per annum, the car factory at Sanand (Gujarat) produced only 23,605 cars in 2015 (January to December). Company data reveals that sales have dwindled since 2011-12, when it sold 74,521 cars. In the last three years (2013-14 to 2015-16), Nano has sold 21,130 cars, 16,903 cars and 21,006 cars respectively.

14 Indian Startups & Projects That Are Helping The Country Go Green

OfficeChai Team

Indian entrepreneurs are looking to disrupt everything right from the way we shop, to how we order food, to how we get a leaking tap fixed. However, with problems of excessive consumption, and technology, come problems of waste, pollution and environmental damage.

But fortunately, there are startups that are looking to mitigate these environmental hazards, and combined with a love for social good and a technology led product, helping the country become greener. In a country like India, where abject corruption and a huge population can usually put civic works in the background, it’s heartening to see small players coming out and focussing in this sector. We bring you 14 such entrepreneurs and activists who have started ventures towards sustainable development focussing on waste management, alternative sources of energy and awareness platforms.

How Patanjali Uses Modern Brand Strategy To grow Past Competitors

Mahesh Murthy

The saffron-clad Baba’s forecast was quite eye-catching too – he thinks the brand will double revenues to Rs. 10,000 crores (~USD 1.5 billion) in India by next year, 2017 – which would effectively take them past two other-decades old companies – Nestle and Procter & Gamble – and leave Patanjali second only to Unilever in India, all in just about 10 years.

So what helped them grow this fast?

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These Unicorns’ Websites Looked Very Different Back In The Day

OfficeChai Team

A brand is a constantly evolving entity, and its most physical, visual aspect is its website. While the Unicorn startups of today like Flipkart, Ola, Paytm sport fancy looks bandying terms like Material design today, they have come a long way from being the basic, web 1.0 websites of when they started. Startup pitch app ShotPitch recently did some some delving into the past, and dug out the looks of the top 5 Indian startups. Watch this now and then slideshow for a bout of nostalgia.