A war for talent, gravity-defying salaries and skyrocketing training budgets marked India's job market in the first decade of the millennium. All these will intensify in the next.

A new generation of entrepreneurs is at work across India, but several parts of the ecosystem need to be put in place to ensure their success.

A few middle-rung B-schools have started to make their presence felt, which is only good news for the teeming MBA aspirants.

Wall Street may be coming back from the brink a year after it collapsed, but a clutch of one-time hotshot investment bankers has few regrets about bidding adieu to the greed-is-good culture to plough a new furrow.

Hats off to the growing tribe of edupreneurs for offering quality education in India.

Cheap, svelte and robust, netbooks have reached a unique tipping point. An impending broadband revolution and rising incomes will render them as commonplace as your cell phone.

India has too many illiterates but too few entrepreneurs entering into the field of education. Why is this so? The answer is simple: the country is hostile territory for educational entrepreneurship.

The vocational and skills training market has spawned scores of successful entrepreneurs. Many are expanding into secondary and higher education, says Saumya Bhattacharya.

These are the poster boys of private enterprise in higher education. And even in the densely regulated segment, there are interesting business models that are paying off.

Not Goldman Sachs, not McKinsey, not Infosys. The top recruiters on business and engineering college campuses were all new names.

However, it scores a distant 11th in the ‘Life after Work’ index — not because of a lack of malls, restaurants or movie theatres of which it has plenty — but because of its shoddy roads and inconsistent power supply.

A downturn augurs well for start-ups, and a number of engineering and B-school graduates are grabbing this opportunity.

This is Business Today’s Third Annual Listing of hottest start-ups and, pretty much like the two previous lists in 2007 and 2008, this listing is also completely subjective.

After Bangalore, technology is focussing on other Indian cities.

In a market where big companies and brands are seen as the best employers, iGate Global Solutions has flown below the radar, jumped four places in this survey, to emerge as the second-best employer.

An intense work culture that breeds entrepreneurship and innovation has techies flocking to low-key, and unpretentious HCL.

Best cities for business (BT Cover, September 7) gave a 360-degree perspective on the business climate prevailing in the leading cities of India. The ranking of various cities according to their business quotient made sense and was spot on.

Below the radar of the national media, Bhopal is industrialising rapidly and emerging as an increasingly important manufacturing hub.

Education is a goldmine not just for entrepreneurs but also for the country. With the education industry set to grow, the next wave of entrepreneurial activity is going to be education centric.

Private services providers are finding gaps, plugging them and growing decent businesses in the process. Many of them aspire to be at least a billion-dollar big in the next few years. Flawless execution, however, will remain the key to realising these dreams.