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What India Inc can learn from ISRO!
For India Inc. then, there is enough room to capitalize on low costs, pursue frugal innovation and develop new products, technologies, and intellectual property
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What’s behind India's DPI push at G20?
DPI can be globally interoperable, bringing economies together, but issues of cyber security and data leaks are risks that can be damaging
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Startup Incubators: Are they worth it?
As India is fairly new to the incubator game, the benefits to startups and the economy at large are yet to accrue
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IT companies find themselves in the middle of a perfect storm
The industry is facing multiple risks all at once, from employee churn to a shift in technology cycles to a bad operating environment and geographic and industry concentration
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Twitter: All downhill from here?
The future for Twitter becoming an “everything app” looks uncertain, not because of the lack of merit in an app that tries to do everything for everyone, but because it seems to be driven by a swashbuckling billionaire CEO who cares more about titillation than the plan
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Personal Finance: Finance bill amendments cast a burden on investors and the capital market
Removal of indexation benefits, higher taxes in addition to high transaction costs will inflict pain on investors, besides making it tougher to raise debt for longer duration
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With no end in sight yet, will 2023 be the year of layoffs?
When money is cheap, instead of taking calculated risks, companies buy back their own shares and drive stock prices up
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Startup Street: Clean energy -- new vistas for entrepreneurs, but with high stakes
To quadruple capacity built in the past 75 years, India’s energy sector will see shifts in the next 25 years, which will open opportunities for start ups and incumbents
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Start-up Street: Lessons from the bursting of the Edtech bubble
Fast growth at any cost had locked edtech companies into a race to the bottom
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Start-up Street: As VC funding ebbs, start-ups must focus on value, not valuation
Investor sentiment in Silicon Valley is the most negative since the dot-com crash
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Startup-up Street | Logistics: Between order and chaos
While shipping something from place A to place B sounds easy, the reality is far more complex. It is essentially a relay race that involves multiple modes of transport, hubs, warehouses, and people
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Will Elon Musk prove to be a champion of free speech?
Elon has a fair bit of experience in going against conventional wisdom with his businesses and making them win against astronomical odds
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Start-up Street: Healthcare startups and wasted opportunities
Convenience of ordering medicines, tracking health digitally, and eConsultations are all fine, but there seems to be no headway into solving the heart of the problem: the paucity of doctors
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Ukraine crisis fallout | Payments system ban: A double-edged sword?
Besides sanctions, payments system bans are becoming more fashionable. However, they might be doing more harm than good
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Start-up Street | Packaged food start-ups: Struggling to take off
With intense competition, growing profitably in this space is a chicken and egg problem. You can’t be cost-efficient if you don’t have scale, and you cannot build scale on day one without deep pockets
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Start-up Street: A deep-dive into what reality show Shark Tank India offers start-ups
Shows like Shark Tank often focus on just the happy side of entrepreneurship. Getting funded is one thing, running a business and growing it profitably is quite another
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Tech Mantra: The most digital Budget ever
From drones in agriculture, to digitised health records, additional PLI for solar cell manufacturing , battery standards for EVs, 5G, to passports with chips, there is increased focus on technology in the Budget
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Tech Mantra -- Tech Mahindra’s M&A spree: Careful or overzealous?
The ability to acquire companies, integrate them, and grow sales is now a competitive advantage in a rapidly changing business environment
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Tech Mantra | Semiconductor Chips: Will India be third-time lucky?
The PLI scheme for semiconductors aims to incentivise every part of the supply chain from design, semiconductor and display fabrication, to assembly, test, marking and packaging, but note that this is India’s third attempt at manufacturing semiconductor chips
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Tech Mantra | India's SaaS future is burning bright
Three questions you must ask before putting your hard-earned money in a SaaS company
