Entrepreneurship comes with a bundle of challenges – both personal and professional. Professionally, one of the biggest challenges remains hiring and retaining good employees at a startup. Startups, which generally tend to have lean teams, can sometimes face the brunt of employees quitting their jobs very early due to number reasons. One of the major […]
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Union Budget 2017: Abating Taxes Gives SMBs the Much Awaited Encouragement
Over the last couple of months, the micro, small and medium enterprises have grappled with the implications of demonetization. Arun Jaitley’s budget on Wednesday came as a breather to the SME and MSME sector. The government proposed to reduce the Income Tax for those companies with an annual turnover of upto Rs 50 crore to […]
India Inc.’s Union Budget 2017 Expectations
India Inc. is looking with great anticipation at the Union Budget 2017 announcement, on February 1, 2017. This is the next major announcement by the Government of India after the recent Demonetization drive and is expected to spell out the policies for the world’s fastest growing economy. Team Estrade spoke to industry leaders, to know […]
Culture is the invisible co-founder – 30 quotes from Indian startup journeys
From code to culture, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous post here). Share these 30 gems and insights from the week of January 15-21 with your colleagues and […]
Going digital: Srividya’s Avaali Solutions helps corporates with new business models
IT spending is going to be $3.5 trillion in 2017, and Avaali wants to show its clients why going digital is about efficient outcomes. The IT industry in India is worth over $110 billion in exports. But its digital narrative is yet to gather steam, and media reports are ripe with large IT companies struggling […]
Direct to Consumer Prowess with Digital
Headquartered in Bengaluru, Avaali Solutions specializes in providing enterprise solutions for content & business driven collaboration projects. Customer expectations and customer behavior is changing and brands are working hard to keep pace. With much of the information available at their fingertips, consumers are in control like never before. It is all about data – brands […]
Top Trends In Next Generation Shared Services
The concept of Shared services is probably about two to three decades old. What is interesting about this space is that unlike disruptive innovation that shakes up previously successful models, the shared services model continues to build innovation in both its range of offerings as well as the way it is being executed. Shared services […]
The Nuance of Hiring Your Co-founder Via Job Advertorials
While going solo isn’t bad, having a co-founder merely helps an entrepreneur share the joys and pains of his journey with another soul. Today we are living in an age where solo entrepreneurs are putting up advertorials for their co-founders on LinkedIn and other job portals. While doing this manages to grab eyeballs and manages […]
Indian IT sector in 2016 and what the future holds for 2017
The year 2016 witnessed a series of high impact events including slump in oil prices, the impact of Brexit, the results from US elections to the effects of demonetization. Banks and financial institutions slowed down spending and in general, decision making worldwide was extremely slow. Slowdown in China led to a multiplier effect on an […]
India poised for watershed year
Indian business leaders are cautiously optimistic on the outlook for India’s economy this year, with factors ranging from Donald Trump to demonetisation expected to be key. “The year 2016 was a year of surprises in terms of global economic and political events from Brexit to the US presidential election and Indian demonetisation,” says Srividya Kannan, […]