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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Xiaomi is living its wildest dream

In five years, Xiaomi has become India's no 1 smartphone company and morphed into a 'smart' consumer electronics and durables maker

'Xiaomi India has outdone our expectations': Lei Jun

Xiaomi's chairman and founder, dubbed China's Steve Jobs, says building a local leadership team in the region has helped the company succeed

'We are greedy for growth, not profit': Manu Jain

From being ridiculed for its 'eccentric' India debut as an online-only smartphone brand to selling 100 million mobile phones in five years, Jain has also steered Xiaomi to pole positions in smart TVs, wearables and power banks

Sometimes, recession is good: John Forrester

Why Forrester, Cushman and Wakefield's global president, is bullish on India

How PayPal aims to grow market share in India

US-headquartered PayPal is banking on technological innovations and the growing popularity of digital payments in the country

It's always a good time to have a sense of humour: Twinkle Khanna on Tweak India

Twinkle Khanna, whose newest venture is a digital content company targetted at women, talks about wearing the many hats of actor-producer, author, and the need for intelligent—and irreverent—women-centric conversations

NBA in India: The hoopla comes to town

The US's basketball giant strengthens its India presence with two pre-season games in Mumbai

'Indian cuisine needs to be catalogued': Garima Arora

Garima Arora, the country's first woman chef to win a Michelin star, is kickstaring an initiative to rebrand Indian food for the global audience, called 'Food Forward India'

Travel: New Zealand's Doubtful Sound holds a unique marine habitat

Doubtful Sound is the second longest of the 14 fjords in New Zealand's Fiordland region, created millions of years ago

Ather Energy is redefining electric two-wheelers

Because Ather Energy has built its electric scooters from scratch, it is defining what an electric two-wheeler is capable of being

Jumbotail: The shop for shopkeepers

By using technology, Jumbotail is gaining a foothold in the mammoth market of neighbourhood grocery stores

Translation is going high-tech

A crop of startups and MNCs working with translations and interpretations is using modern technology to take businesses beyond English-speaking urban circles

Beyond MOOCs, e-learning is India's Renaissance bet

Online courses from India—from players such as SimpliLearn, Upgrad and Great Learning—are providing domestic and global learners with the knowledge and skills to upgrade themselves, while building high-margin businesses

Meet the world's first venture-backed human-hair-extension company

The dream? To be the Airbnb of salons

The world's first bot billionaire

Daniel Dines created the world's hottest tech company, $7 billion UiPath, by unleashing virtual robots on office grunt work

Can cars use hydrogen as zero-pollution fuel?

Hydrogen vehicles keep flopping, but entrepreneur Trevor Milton thinks he can finally make them pay

America's Top 250 Wealth Advisors

The story of how Mad Over Donuts pipped Dunkin

Slow, steady, heady: How MOD became India's top donut brand, in the face of global competition

Thoughts on oil