Building on a Startup Budget
Brian Levin loves being called a jerk. Especially when he’s roaming the grounds at a NASCAR race while wearing the “jerk suit,” a get-up outfitted with up to 900 pull-off bags of jerky. Yes, jerky. Two...
View ArticleSecrets of Bootstrapping
(YoungBiz.com): Chances are, you’ve heard the phrase “A penny saved is a penny earned.” In the business world, nothing is closer to the truth. It’s called bootstrapping, and it’s more than just an old...
View ArticleMSMEs’ Reasons to Cheer Post the Budget
The Union budget for 2012-13 proposed in the parliament earlier today has largely been seen by commentators as one that’s cautious and one that makes no major game changing propositions. For the Micro,...
View ArticleAngel investors, PE hit by Budget 2012 proposal on premium tax
Now that the Budget fineprint is emerging, the Devil truly appears to be in the detail. For the entrepreneurship and startups space, despite some sops given by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to...
View ArticleThe Devil’s in the Details
In the end, Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s Budget 2012 will be most remembered for the fine print. At first glance, it seemed as though the minister presented a non-event of a document,...
View ArticleBack to Basics: Incubation 2013
The budgetary decision on corporate funds provided to recognized technology incubators that will now be treated as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activity has filled in a missing...
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One budget for all
1. Auto and Auto Ancillaries Overview The automobile sector accounts for 22 percent of the manufacturing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as well as four percent of the cumulative Foreign Direct Investment...
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Taxation under Budget 2013
The Finance Bill 2013 proposes no changes to the tax slabs and the tax rates, albeit, a tax credit to a maximum of Rs. 2,000 for the individual tax payers who are in the lowest tax paying bracket. A...
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Budget 2013: Broad impact on SMEs
The government has in the past taken several initiatives in making the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) more efficient and competitive. These include a number of schemes introduced with a...
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How to negotiate real estate prices
According to a report by global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, Mumbai is the sixth most expensive city in the world for renting an office space. The report states that the rent for...
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‘Indian banking needs to widen and deepen its reach’: Rana Kapoor
Q: You recently fine-tuned your Version 2.0 strategic plan and made it even more ambitious in certain areas. How has it progressed? A: The Version 2.0 (2010-2015) is about scale, granularity and...
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