Entrepreneurs

Don’t expect a punch to open this because there is no need to introduce a stand-up comedian who is growing in popularity and his capability to take away the burden of daily life. Yes, I am talking about the famous Kapil Sharma. He hails from Amritsar, Punjab and has created a niche of one-liner jokes […]

Raman Kumar has been working with DD News Jalandhar for the last 33 years. He has been known to everybody living in Punjab ever turning TV. Though he is fluent in English and Hindi too, but his professional career comprises reading Punjabi News.   Presenting news on a TV channel has its own challenges from

Manish Sisodia, hailing from a village, is an Indian social activist, recognized for being a key member in the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement and Team Anna. He is co-founder of NGO named Kabir with Arvind Kejriwal, another key member of Team Anna. Manish is an RTI activist and formerly a news producer at Zee News.

Coming out from a village and becoming one of the most celebrated news-anchor, Deepak has come up a long way in his 20 years career with media. He was the founding member of Aaj Tak but now works with Star News. He has roamed the whole world reporting from Iraq, Palestine, Kargil and the present

Before founding Craftsvilla.com, Manoj was Principal at Nexus Venture Partners which is one of the leading venture capital funds in India with a fund size of $320 million. While at Nexus, Manoj was board member of Bigshoebazaar India (which owns Yebhi.com), Deccan Healthcare, Sohanlal Commodity Management and was board observer of Snapdeal.com. Manoj is very

The Grameen Bazaar connects around 500+ million Grameen / Village Entrepreneurs and farmers directly to consumers across world. Consumers can purchase high quality products, organically certified fruits and vegetables, work of arts, potteries, textiles etc directly from Grameen Entrepreneurs via grameenbazaar.in or through UDP (U Drop Pick) points in every city and village. We had

Continuing our tradition of bringing the stories of startups and new ventures to our readers, we talked to Rakesh Sidana of MeriCAR.com–a web portal that brings car servicing to your online presence. Q1. Tell us something about yourself. I am founder, CEO of MeriCAR.com. It is first in India focused car-servicing and repair web portal.

Ian Ippolito is the founder and CEO of vWorker (formerly known as RentACoder), a company that connects employers with virtual workers and makes doing business more affordable and safer than traditional work arrangements. vWorker has over 300,000 workers and 100,00 employers in hundreds of fields and was called “One of the 100 most brilliant companies”

Have you ever thought of making a charitable contribution to any of the organization in the world? The first question that props up in the minds of philanthropists is about the genuineness of such organizations. Whom to believe? The world is replete with scams and embezzlement cases. There are whole lot of good non-profit organizations

Marketing automation is a highly specialized segment where companies like to analyze the visitor’s behavior and create an automated process whereby sales could be generated. It takes a whole lot of back-end intelligence to create a program that can map website-visitor’s intent, deriving actionable intelligence to convert a visitor into a qualified lead and subsequently

UX designing is something very crucial to web 2.0. The opportunity for freelance designers is huge and is increasing. What qualities a designer should have to become successful. Is it creativity; is it technical backgroun; is it experience. We take inputs from one Avinash Tripathi, who has donned both the roles of a freelance designer

Kaustubh Katdare, known as ‘The Big K’, is the founder & administrator of CrazyEngineers. Kaustubh graduated in 2003 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Kaustubh founded CrazyEngineers on 26 November 2005 in with the sole purpose of interacting with engineers who are working on greatest engineering projects. CrazyEngineers soon became popular among engineering students &

Dorothy grew up branding cattle and riding horses on her family’s ranch in Highland County, Virginia. In 1990, her mother enrolled her in a beginner Clogging class with the Little Switzerland Cloggers. From that day forward, Clogging was Dorothy’s passion, and it has even evolved into her full-time job. Dorothy’s company, Sundance Studios & Productions

Amycanbe, now cult alternative must in the Italian and Europen music scene, represents a real novelty for both the musical eclecticism expressed and the ability to carry audiences of their concerts into a dreamlike journey, armed with a colorful imagination, as well with the seductive and charming voice of their unique singer. Amycanbe hail from

Who says it takes years to become an entrepreneur. Do you? Do you think that you need at least 10 years of experience working in a company before you could wear the boots of an entrepreneur? Do you think it takes management courses or workshops that can snare your creativity and entrepreneurial knack. Well, here

Indian healthcare system is one of the areas where innovation, proactive approach and long-term vision are needed to improve the quality of services. The healthcare industry suffers much from lack of coordinated services, customer oriented approach and unconcernedness about the growth that a business can achieve. Without doubt, there is tremendous entrepreneurial potential in consumer-centric

When it comes to serial entrepreneurs, one often wonders how they start and manage more than one venture at a time. Yet, driven by a passion so strong, most of these serial entrepreneurs have clearly defined goals and vision for each of their ventures. Dhimant Parekh, an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, founded ‘The Better India’

Different entrepreneurs have different motivations. For some it is the brand, for some it is money, for some it is simply the power to move resources. Then, there are also the creative entrepreneurs for whom, it is nothing but the spirit of creation. Hami, a culmination of imagination through art and photograph, is a venture

E-commerce has boosted entrepreneurship in many ways. With the IT boom and advent of new web based technologies, many aspiring entrepreneurs carved a new niche for themselves, one driven by this technological revolution. A product of the growing opportunity in e-commerce, Web IT Solutions was founded by Vikram Pratap and Siddhi Sharma in 2009. The

With the growth of technology and the rapid developments in communication, the entertainment sector has evolved phenomenally in the recent past. Eyeing this opportunity early on, Gaurav Mendiratta, Founder and Director, AKG Technologies Inc. (NyooTV) started India’s first online social TV network. What is the venture all about? How has the journey been for this