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7 Bootstrapping Lessons From Indian Founders

The most useful bootstrapping lessons from Indian founders are simple to say and hard to practise: sell something people will pay for, grow only as fast…

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Real Estate Founders Who Shaped Delhi-NCR | History

From Delhi’s first private colonies to Gurugram’s office towers and Noida’s housing societies — the founders behind Delhi-NCR’s real estate,…

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25 Women Entrepreneurs in India

India’s most influential women entrepreneurs have built companies that changed how the country shops, saves, eats, heals and invests. Some,…

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Sairee Chahal SHEROES Story: From Fleximoms to Mahila Money

Sairee Chahal SHEROES Story: From Fleximoms to Mahila Money

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Nobody would fund us, so we had to be profitable from the first month. That constraint became our biggest strength.

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The CEO who spends every Friday on the shop floor

Arjun Mehta runs a 9,000-person engineering company. One day a week he still works a shift — and it has…

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How Does Workday Work?

What is Workday? Workday is a cloud-based software company that specializes in human capital management and financial management solutions for…

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