Vani Kola left behind a stellar career as an entrepreneur in the United States to gamble on the startup ecosystem in India. In 2006, Vani Kola spent a month in India, “travelling, meeting people, sitting in a mall and observing”. The managing director of venture capital firm Kalaari Capital had left India in the late 1980s to pursue a master’s degree in engineering in the United States. There she […]
Entrepreneurship, they say, is a game of sports, competitive sports, where you play to win. What kind of sport is it? Is it like swimming, where you have to go against the flow? Or, is it like sailing, where you have to leverage the tide? They say it’s like running, not the sprint but a marathon, where you are in for the long haul. Hmm… Some say, entrepreneurship is about […]
Silicon Valley, it’s never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. comyanThe California eighth-grader has launched a company to develop low-cost machines to print Braille, the tactile writing system for the visually impaired. Tech giant Intel Corp recently invested in his startup, Braigo Labs. Shubham built a Braille printer with a Lego robotics kit as a school science fair project last year after he asked his […]
Trying your hand at being an entrepreneur is very admirable, and dare I say, crazy. The rewards are priceless and the falls are devastating. You put so much of yourself into a single idea and you over-extend to make sure the idea succeeds. Because you’ve put on your blinders to focus on “making it,” you may not even take stock of the things that happen to you on your entrepreneurial […]
What makes a great entrepreneur? Who achieves the American dream of prosperity and success through the application of sheer hard work, determination and innovation? Look at the numbers and you’ll find good evidence that immigrants and others who come from nothing are the ones who make it to the top. A study by the Partnership for a New American Economy, for instance, found that more than 40 percent of Fortune […]
ClamorWorld :Tell us about yourself Chirag :I’m an entrepreneur, speaker and startup advisor based in Boston, MA. I have been starting companies since the age of 15, however, my two most notable are STR and C&M Group. ClamorWorld :What inspired u to be an entrepreneur ? Chirag :My inspiration to become an entrepreneur stemmed from my Dad, who told me to “never get a 9-5 job”. He would always […]
