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10,000 Startups Program

10,000 Startups Program Give your start-up the wings that it needs to succeed “10,000 Startups” is a vision, which is committed to incubate, fund and provide ambient support to impact 10,000 technology startups in India, by 2023. The aim is to nurture the hatchling startups into full-fledged technology stalwart companies, by giving them support via […]

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Corporates failed to engage startups

It’s time for corporate boards to add “startup engagement” to their CEOs’ job descriptions. CEOs know it’s important to engage with startups, but startlingly few seem to do it themselves. Too often this critical responsibility is shrugged off to other company departments, including innovation, business development, marketing, and PR. This is just not enough. Startup […]

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Accelerating Indian startups

Gurgaon-based India Accelerator will soon launch an incubation program and offer early-stage technology startups benefits from its newly-acquired membership of the Global Accelerator Network (GAN). The GAN is a consortium of 70 leading accelerators in the world including H-Farm in Italy, NXTP Labs in Argentina, SparkLabs in South Korea and Techstars in the United States. […]

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Budget 2017: Small taxpayer gets a break, but little else to cheer about

There’s not a lot that can be said about this budget and I guess that’s not a bad thing. Most people agree on the fact that there’s nothing path breaking in there but neither is there anything disastrous. Having said that, for me the direction of levelling the playing field, or at least giving the […]

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Budget 2017: Affordable housing given infra status to encourage investments

To boost slowdown-hit real estate sector, the government on Wednesday announced infrastructure status to affordable housing to encourage investment in this segment and offered tax sops for developers sitting on completed unsold inventories. The National Housing Bank will refinance individual housing loans of about Rs 20,000 crore in 2017-18. To promote affordable homes, the government […]

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Budget 2017: Govt eyes job opportunities in textiles, tourism and affordable housing

Finance minister Arun Jaitley in his budget has reiterated the government’s commitment to job creation and identified several sectors – textiles, leather, tourism, transportation and affordable housing – that he said will open up employment opportunity. In his speech on Wednesday, Jaitley described “energising youth through education, skills and jobs” as one of the government’s […]

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Services export from India: A bright future

The contribution of services sector is not only a prominent factor in the growth of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but has also attracted significant foreign investment, contributed significantly to exports as well as provided large-scale employment. The share of services sector to Gross Value Added (GVA) is expected to be at 53.7 per cent […]

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