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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The sector is now a hotbed of activity, with over 1,000 startups offering a range of solutions to address inefficiencies that have been the bane of agriculture in India for decades.
Editor's note: Most middle-class Indians have one aim in life: find a steady job after college. At least that’s how it was before the pandemic. The more ambitious ones go on to acquire a management degree or move to the US with Silicon Valley dreams. A handful roll up their sleeves and become entrepreneurs. And what do these entrepreneurs create? Mostly consumer-facing products. Apps that help you buy anything from books to toilet paper, order food, call a cab, find a hotel halfway across the world to fit your budget, and pay for all of these at the click of a button. They do all this in the hope that they can attract millions of dollars in investment and go on to become billion-dollar enterprises. That’s how it has been in the last decade and more. Everyone has been making apps for the middle-class. Now, the target seems to have shifted somewhat, to the top 1% of the population. And yet, far from the glitter of consumer-facing businesses and dreams of stratospheric valuations, some entrepreneurs have been slogging it out, trying to …
India’s leading tech hardware distribution company is making the most of the unprecedented rise in global prices of laptops and other tech hardware. There’s just one problem.
The seafood company solved its demand problem by aggressively buying global distributors. Now it has a financing problem that it can't solve without public money.
As AI advances rapidly, leadership, judgment and strategy matter more than ever. Today’s MBA is evolving to shape leaders for an AI-led world.
