Page 52 - Start-ups

Show your cash flow, PEs tell start-ups

Focus on generating cash flows, realistic valuations and quality deals are among the factors governing investment choices of PE firms

Founder's Diary: How to battle the funding squeeze in today's start-up market

CredR co-founder Sumit Chhazed says organic growth and a strong USP are essential for start-ups in today's funding environment

Chennai start-up failure rate lower than NCR and Bengaluru

Investors in TN capital conservative, bet on good ideas

NewsDistill raises $100,000 in seed funding

NewsDistill aggregates news from Indian newspapers, TV channels, RSS Feeds, custom feeds and social media in English and eight Indian languages

LensPick raises funds to expand online presence

US-based Scadea Solutions has picked a 10% in the firm, at a valuation of $5 million

Online health start-ups breaking taboos, bridging digital gap

Online health services start-ups are connecting people in small towns to doctors in big cities

90% of start-ups are nonsense, have no meaning: Kishore Biyani

Speaking at The Economist India Summit, Biyani said most start-ups' only goal is to sell themselves, need to think bigger

Some start-ups that are changing education as we know it

Using disruptive innovation and the digital drive, these young companies are working on making India's education system more robust

'Chilled, not frozen' ready-to-cook player Fingerlix to raise Series B for expansion

The start-up seeks to differentiate itself by reducing cooking work for homemakers, yet allowing them to control the outcome

Selfdrive.in plans to raise $6 million in next 6 months

The service, which seeks to expand to Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, is likely to be profitable from this fiscal

Despite pink slips, job prospects not all that bad: Experts

Layoffs are becoming pretty common these days as there were recent reports of job loss in Flipkart, Askme, Ola and Infosys, among others

Govt sets up incubation centre at Delhi varsity for electronic start-ups

Electropreneur Park will incubate 50 early-stage electronics start-ups in five years

An ecosystem where start-ups help other start-ups

The network of support offered by start-up ecosystems, though, won't get entrepreneurs entirely past the fear of failure

6 things VCs consider before investing

From great teams to timing, Tech in Asia shows you the ropes

Cuberoot Technologies, Buttercups & salebhai.com raise funding

These start-ups are engaged in fields ranging from data technology to e-commerce

Start-ups master the art of deal making

No longer an in-house task; hiring legal eagles is now becoming norm for M&As, fundraising

Journalist turned entrepreneur duo launches Indy Network to redefine infotainment on digital

Former Bloomberg colleagues Mini Menon and Alok Nair have teamed up to launch the Indy Network to curate, co-create and distribute content in the infotainment space on digital

3 rising start-ups in India

From a healthtech start-up to an amateur sports portal, Tech in Asia shines the light on up-and-coming names

Indian start-ups yet to adopt better privacy practices; experts concerned

There have been several reported cases of harassment due to lack of security measures adopted by these new-age firms

Constance Gustke: Hottest start-up market? Baby boomers

With an estimated 74.9 million baby boomers the biggest market opportunity for start-ups is older Americans