BUSINESS
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
BUSINESS
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
BUSINESS
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?
BUSINESS
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
BUSINESS
Start-Up Street | Do investors in Indian start-ups prefer younger entrepreneurs?
A study by Harvard Business Review said VCs are operating under a ‘mistaken belief that youth is the elixir of successful entrepreneurship'
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Start-up Street: What it takes to create a prudent angel investment portfolio
Losses are often the default in angel investing, considering the high failure rate of start-ups. While there is no winning strategy, here are some tips to better success
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Start-up Street: Start-up advisory boards – boon or bane?
Challenging the founders and leadership on key issues, constructive criticism along with pointed suggestions help make for a good advisor
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Start-up Street: Strategies need to strike an offline-online balance
Hybrid models are likely to be the way forward for start-up players as life returns to near normal post the pandemic
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Startup Street | Watch out for these red flags before investing in startups
A high failure rate means an investor could lose everything. Keeping an eye on these red flags from the start could improve the odds of success
BUSINESS
Start Up Street: Turning a business into an investible start-up
Entrepreneurs must know that a good business may not necessarily mean it is an investible business. Investors – be they seed funds or VCs are looking for 10x + potential returns on any investment.
BUSINESS
Start up Street: How important is mentoring to start ups?
Investors do admire and encourage an entrepreneur’s passion given that it drives the entrepreneur and the enterprise. But investors also are able to bring in more objectivity to business projections
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Startup Street: Profiting from social good
For investors, social impact investment involves giving finance, typically in the form of equity, to enterprises which tackle social issues and needs with the clear expectation of a measurable social and financial return
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Start-up Street | Harmony between investors and entrepreneurs critical to a start-up's success
Investors and entrepreneurs may publicly make a show having aligned interests but an undercurrent of tension and conflicting interests is always present
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Start-up Street | Contrarian approach: Starting up in a downturn could make sense
For entrepreneurs, this is actually a great time to start a business, as distractions tend to be far fewer and the focus is on finding and delivering true customer value
BUSINESS
Start-up Street: Default Alive -- the art of navigating through uncertain times
After the high of the past few years, the funding tap has suddenly dried up. For several later-stage start-ups seeking to raise larger rounds in the coming few months, the outlook is unfavourable
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Start-Up Street | Early exit – It happens more often than you think
Start-up entrepreneurs should be prepared for situations in which an early exit may happen
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Start-up Street: Does India need more unicorns or democratisation of entrepreneurship?
Focus on unicorns detracts from the work done by other start-ups and MSMEs. Unicorns typically tend to be disproportionately funded, leaving little for the vast majority of start-ups that need funds
BUSINESS
Learning from the failures of funded businesses
Almost 82 per cent of businesses fail because of cash flow problems; but there are other reasons as well
BUSINESS
Start-up Street: Family businesses in India are warming up to external capital
Unlike money from banks, venture capital or private equity into family businesses comes with different expectations. Here are a few points to ponder over….
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Start-up Street: Closing down an unsuccessful start-up
The vast majority of start-ups fail. For the entrepreneur, it's an intensely emotional process that needs to be managed well, so that the learnings can serve him well in his next venture
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Start-up Street | Crises in start-ups and the art of managing them
The trouble with a crisis is you never know when it is going to hit you. It is therefore necessary to have adequate safeguards in place for possible situations
BUSINESS
Start-up Street | Entrepreneurship – the dark and seamy side
Unfortunately, because the enterprise is so closely linked to the entrepreneur’s identity and because quitting is often equated with failure, many entrepreneurs get blinded and drag the business into a deeper financial morass
BUSINESS
Startup Street | Beware! Fraud by entrepreneurs is a recurring phenomenon
What types of frauds that startups indulge in and why? Usual suspects are inflated billings or expenses and non-existent product, among others
