Page 4 - Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and the pandemic

Though business for majority of entrepreneurs is yet to return to pre-Covid levels, has the country's indomitable entrepreneurial spirit gotten over the Covid bump?

Flipkart, NITI Aayog collaborate to enhance Women Entrepreneurship Platform

Walmart-owned Flipkart on Monday said it has partnered with Niti Aayog to launch the revamped Women Entrepreneurship Platform.

The successful entrepreneur's playbook

Book review of How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Housework burden just got heavier for women entrepreneurs in pandemic

Domestic responsibilities emerged second only to weak demand as major obstacle to running a business: Report

Entrepreneurship is about having a purpose, says Kiran Majumdar Shaw

Entrepreneurship is not about making money but about having a purpose, renowned businesswoman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw told Delhi government school students on Wednesday

India has potential to 'capitalise' skilling opportunities, says PM Modi

PM Modi said skill is timeless, and it keeps getting better with time and it makes you different from others

PM unveils job scheme to promote entrepreneurship, provide employment in UP

At the virtual launch, Modi interacted with villagers from six districts of Uttar Pradesh

ITC partners with Amway to develop range of immunity boosting products

Launches fruit juices with clinically proven immunity boosters, which will be sold by Amway's micro-entrepreneurs for a while

Invest in trust to promote entrepreneurship

What we observe currently is a dilution of the formal channels of communication, while there is not much evidence of the informal ones evolving

Framework to waive open offers needed

This is necessary to ensure that the entire activity is within the bounds of fairness and objectivity

Covid-19 an opportunity to support our 'own innovativeness': Ratan Tata

'It is not a world war but it is like a world war. There is a dramatic need for vaccine, there is a dramatic need for solutions and strange things happen,' Tata said

Business with purpose: Real or fluff?

A story of hunter-gatherers, planters and rainforests

IITs & IIMs launches new consortium to support entrepreneurs, innovation

The new venture is named as 'Innovation-Venturing and Entrepreneurship in India Network (iVEIN)

From SME to MNC

The transformation of Conzerv offers important lessons on scaling up

Women in business can generate 170 mn jobs in India by 2030: Report

This is more than 25% of the new jobs required for the entire working-age population by 2030

Fine tune the opportunity

In part one of a two-part series, the author talks about how startups can identify a need gap

An ex-Microsoft bigwig's mission: 10 mn entrepreneurs, 50 mn jobs by 2030

GAME, a social initiative started by Ravi Venkatesan, aims to create 50 million jobs, half of which would be for women

The potential of design thinking

It stretches the startup's vision beyond current reality to a desired state, even a 10x growth

Stanford's SEED programme training entrepreneurs to end global poverty

It is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to attend a year-long training conducted by the GBS staff

Lack of entrepreneurship programmes in Indian institutes a concern: Report

There is a lack of entrepreneurship programmes in Indian higher education institutes, according to a report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) and Ernst & Young (EY), issued at the Ficci Higher Education Summit here on Thursday.The report - Higher education in India: Moving towards global relevance and competitiveness - says only a few Indian higher education institutes have entrepreneurship courses and most of them have been introduced only recently. For instance, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, recently introduced courses on entrepreneurship. Likewise, IIT Kharagpur is considering a micro specialisation in engineering entrepreneurship for its B.Tech students from next year.The report notes that venture-funding as well as governmental support for incubation centres is still at early stages in India. Most incubation centres have been set up only after 2,000 and many of these are as young as eight to 10 years.According to the repor