New Business

Entrepreneurs are waking up to the virtue of frugality once again, as easy money dries up and venture capital tumbles.

Updated : Aug 30, 2022

Watching Every Penny: The State of Indian Start-ups

With VCs growing weary of cash-burning start-ups and founders watching every penny they spend, lay-offs, hiring freeze and cost-cutting are back on centre stage

Updated : Jan 28, 2014

Virtual offices, co-working can help entrepreneurs and start-ups save initial costs

Virtual office service providers offer a recognisable business address that you can provide on business cards and letterheads, a phone number and an executive to handle calls and answer mails.

Updated : May 17, 2011

Ashish Kapur on how the Yo! China chain came about

Ashish Kapur spent months researching the fast-food business before launching his Yo! China chain.

Updated : Jun 15, 2010

The thrills and spills of sailing solo

Adrenaline, ulcers, joy, devastation, bliss, manic depression, chagrin and euphoria are some of the phenomena in the journey of entrepreneurship.

Updated : Oct 7, 2009

Classified secret

By selling the idea of Net as a tool to make profit, Satya Prabhakar turned his pastime into a thriving business.

Updated : Jul 16, 2009

Styled for mass appeal

Vijay Bansal entered the apparel market late, but targeted the middle class to find space for Cantabil.

Updated : Jul 5, 2009

First growth

It was sheer chance that led Rajeev Samant to work his father’s land. Several profitless crops later, he opted for winemaking, and a heady business, Sula Wines, was born.

Updated : May 29, 2009

7-sided cube

In developing software for corporates, Rajesh Varrier ran into reams of daunting data. He tapped the tedium of analysing it, and with six partners, rolled out activecubes.

Updated : May 15, 2009

Home birds

The unique combination of amenities and comfort for corporate travellers at a fraction of hotel costs proved to be the success mantra for twins Vivek Madappa and Vinod Thimaya.

Updated : May 1, 2009

Expanding vistas

After two successful ventures, Krishnan Ganesh launched TutorVista, an online teaching service. His success recipe is to keep it simple.

Updated : Apr 17, 2009

Profit liner

A failed vaccine venture propelled Pratap Dube towards a new product, moulded roof-liners for cars. Multivac is worth Rs 17 crore today.

Updated : Apr 4, 2009

Access code

Spotting the potential in software helped Saurabh Srivastava achieve spectacular success. He now funds other ventures and mentors the IT industry.

Updated : Mar 19, 2009

Making a clean sweep

After 14 years of toil, Manohar Krishna is poised to unclog the closed Indian attitude with his mechanised drain cleaning system.

Updated : Feb 6, 2009

Purveyor of retail prosperity

The financial flux may have impacted Subhiksha, but R. Subramanian, the man who rewrote the rules of organised retail, is confident of surmounting it.

Updated : Jan 22, 2009

How to be a 'Yes' man

A dream, destiny and the desire to succeed led Rana Kapoor to set up Yes Bank, one of the most savvy private banks in the country.

Updated : Jan 10, 2009

Hunting for opportunities

After honing his entrepreneurial skills at MNCs and free of regimented concepts, Ramesh Vangal set up the Katra Group, which is worth $500 million today.

Updated : Jan 8, 2009

Vehicle of change

He tapped rickshaws as platforms for advertising. Today, SammaaN is a Rs 1.25-crore venture that also benefits the rickshaw-pullers.

Updated : Jan 6, 2009

The serial entrepreneur

From founding HCL to Techspan, and now, Headstrong, Arjun Malhotra has moved from strength to strength, exploiting every crisis to emerge an entrepreneur.

Updated : Dec 25, 2008

Virtual ride, real success

A right combination of initiative and mentoring has seen three young engineers turn a plain listing of bus routes into a Rs 5 crore online ticket-booking enterprise.

Updated : Dec 25, 2008

Making room for success

Patu Keswani used his experience to spot a business opportunity and gave it all to ensure it worked.

Updated : Dec 25, 2008

Soft start, sharp growth

At 16, Divyank Turakhia set up a software company along with his brother. Within 10 years, the two have turned it into a Rs 1,400 crore global entity.