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Start-up Street | Celebrity investors: Needless distraction or a boon?
A number of celebrities are investors in start-ups, with many success stories and some flameouts as well. What value do they bring to the table?
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Start-up Street: How start-ups can navigate through sudden regulatory changes
A survey shows that 49 per cent of start-ups believe that abrupt regulatory changes create a negative impact on Indian start-ups
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Startup Street | Zepto is 2023’s first unicorn, but does it deserve to be one?
Quick commerce’s business model appears to have takers among investors but valuations don’t seem to be taking financial viability into account
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Start-up Street: Getting elusive product-market fit mantra right
India’s diverse customer profile makes it more challenging to customise products, which can add to complexities in the product and costs
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Start-up Street: Build locally, win globally
Indian start-ups are foraying into overseas markets more aggressively. There are risks and hurdles but success, when tasted, is sweet
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Startup Street | Will investor-founder dynamics remain a roller coaster in India?
Founders of Indian start-ups are increasingly challenging the power of large investors in order to retain control over their firms
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Start-up Street: Deep tech start-ups set to take off in India?
It’s time corporates, academia, government and funders in India worked together across the deep tech lifecycle to encourage this fledgling yet vital segment of the start-up ecosystem
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Start-up Street: Micromanaging founders can kill their own start-ups
It’s not just ideation and investor deals that make for successful start-ups. Fostering communication and empowering employees to take decisions is equally important
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Start-up Street | Founders’ exit: causes and implications for startups
Founder exits can have serious implications on the growth plans of a start-up, the capital table, infusion of funds and much more
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Start-up Street: When business advisors cheat entrepreneurs
Not always and not often, but there are business advisors who lack the ethics and strike deals for personal gain. Here’s what entrepreneurs must be watchful about…
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Start-up Street: ‘Boring’ businesses can turn into successful start-ups
Compared to the flashy customer- facing businesses, some exciting B2B enterprises have operated under the radar, showing sustainable unit economics
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Start-up Street | Unfamiliar territory for start-up founders
Start-ups are being forced to give up their 'growth-at-any cost' approach and focus more closely on the basics of any good business
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Start-up Street: Will ‘down rounds’ be the next phase in Indian start-ups?
The end of a frothy cycle has meant a return to rationality. High flying global start-ups have seen valuations pulled down for subsequent funding rounds
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Start-up Street: When elephants dance with ponies
It is critical for even large companies to engage with the start-up ecosystem to innovate, stay relevant, manage change and understand evolving market trends
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Startup Street: Indian start-ups to feel tremors of Silicon Valley Bank collapse
An estimate says 60 per cent of well-known accelerator YCombinator’s start-ups with India connections have accounts in SVB, because that was the go-to default option ‘recommended’
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Startup Street | Is reverse flipping going to trend?
For any start-up, the choice of business structure has to help in the growth and sustainability of the enterprise
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Start-up Street: Founders with very low stakes can pose serious risks
There is often a perception that the founders are just the popular face of the company while the real power lies behind the throne. Why it's important for founders to have skin in the game
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Budget 2023: Start-ups left in the lurch
This year’s budget offers little to create an investor-friendly start-up ecosystem
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Startup Street: Startups no different from run-of-the-mill businesses
Startups have spurred innovation. But once the firm climbs onto the investment treadmill, it inevitably reaches a situation where it exists only to get to its next round
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Start-up Street: Why family businesses score better than new-age start-ups
An extreme view is that non-family businesses tend to chase valuation while family businesses chase value creation
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Startup Street | Why new businesses find it tough to grow up
Deciding when and how to scale up is tricky. Besides the right product and timely funding, it needs mental toughness and ability of founders to overcome challenges
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Start-up Street | When does a start-up stop being one?
The question arises as we see some start-ups raising more money than even established companies but still laying claim to the moniker. Opinion is divided on what separates the two but they share a common aim
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How startups can battle against large incumbents
Startups have shown how they can upend established businesses. What makes them tick and how are legacy businesses fighting back?
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Start-up Street: ‘To be rich or to be king’ - an entrepreneur’s dilemma
Studies in the USA show that less than one out of four founders remain CEOs when the business gets to a liquidity event
