Business Strategy
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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Entrepreneurs
Krunal Sinh Rana: The Founder Behind Spinoto and His Entrepreneurial Journey
Krunal Sinh Rana founded Spinoto, an Ahmedabad autotech startup sending mechanics to vehicle owners from local "dark service stores". Here…
Business
How to Start a Business With No Money: Advice From Founders Who Did It
How to start a business with no money in India: 10 low-cost ideas, a step-by-step plan, government schemes and lessons…
Business
Green Builders: Indian Developers Betting on Sustainable Construction
Walk through an office park in Bengaluru or Gurugram today and the sales pitch has changed. Ten years ago, developers…
Founders & Startups
Agritech Founders Transforming Indian Farming
The average Indian farm is about 1.08 hectares — roughly the size of one and a half football pitches. According…
CEOs & Business Leaders
What Makes a Good Leader? 10 Lessons From Indian CEOs
A team lead has to tell her team that the project they spent three months on is being cancelled. She…
Entrepreneurs
How Indian Founders Survived Their Early Failures and Setbacks
Founder profiles usually begin at the funding round or the IPO. The years before — the unpaid loan, the product…
Entrepreneurs
10 Startups From Tier-2 Cities in India You Should Know
Some of India’s most useful startups were not built in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi-NCR or Hyderabad. If you are looking for…
Entrepreneurs
Dhirubhai Ambani Biography: Life, Reliance and Legacy
Dhirubhai Ambani (1932–2002) was the Indian entrepreneur who founded Reliance in 1958 as a small trading firm in Bombay and…
CEOs & Business Leaders
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,…
Founders & Startups
Sairee Chahal: The SHEROES Founder’s Journey From Fleximoms to Mahila Money
Sairee Chahal SHEROES founder success story: from Fleximoms to a women-only community and Mahila Money, with milestones, leadership lessons and…
Changemakers
Social Entrepreneurs in India: 20 Changemakers and What They Built
Millions of Indian homes still struggle to get reliable electricity, good schooling, affordable healthcare or a bank that will lend…