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First-generation entrepreneurs who turned small beginnings into thriving businesses.
Krunal Sinh Rana founded Spinoto, an Ahmedabad autotech startup sending mechanics to vehicle owners from local "dark service stores". Here is what is known about his journey.
How to start a business with no money in India: 10 low-cost ideas, a step-by-step plan, government schemes and lessons…
Founder profiles usually begin at the funding round or the IPO. The years before — the unpaid loan, the product…
The most useful bootstrapping lessons from Indian founders are simple to say and hard to practise: sell something people will…
Some of India’s most useful startups were not built in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi-NCR or Hyderabad. If you are looking for…
Dhirubhai Ambani (1932–2002) was the Indian entrepreneur who founded Reliance in 1958 as a small trading firm in Bombay and…
From Delhi’s first private colonies to Gurugram’s office towers and Noida’s housing societies — the founders behind Delhi-NCR’s real estate,…
A first-generation entrepreneur is someone who starts a business without a family business behind them — no inherited company, customers,…
India’s most influential women entrepreneurs have built companies that changed how the country shops, saves, eats, heals and invests. Some,…
Rejected by eleven investors, she bootstrapped a delivery network with six second-hand scooters. Today it moves two lakh parcels a…
Meera Iyer · Founder & CEO, SwiftLane Logistics