Special Report
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IFMR Capital: The money conductors
With its unique risk-mitigating financial products, the NBFC has handheld MFIs into the world of big finance. In the process, it has helped breadline businesses find their passports to growth—credit
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Six Hidden Gems and their confidence game
What do the six companies that follow have in common? Confidence in their plan and the ability to translate that into business success
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How Byju's fills the biggest gap in Indian education
Having started as a test-prep company, the ed-tech venture is now looking to take on one of the world's largest K-12 segments
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StoreKing: The friendly, neighbourhood etailman
With StoreKing, Sridhar Gundaiah has combined ecommerce with traditional retail distributors and small shopkeepers to reach the rural hinterland
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Indian startups need a wake-up call: Naren Gupta
Lack of focus on long-term benefits among founders and funders is hampering the growth of a healthy ecosystem
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Kick start: Three sectors raking in the moolah from investors
Tech-led startups looking to address issues in the education, health care and transport sectors are raking in the moolah from investors
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Solving for India: Five startups tackling social problems
These ventures aim to make money by tackling some of India's biggest social problems
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Humanities seem distant from startups, but they're not: Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna
Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna says addressing practical problems must be rewarded in the academic structure and that health care, education and agriculture are three areas that need infinitely more attention
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Post-Brexit uncertainty likely to keep demand for gold high
Global events have pushed international gold prices up 9 percent in the past one month and 21 percent overall, in 2016
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Forbes India Startup Square: Glamour of valuations hides real problems
Startups are yet to look seriously beyond India's urban middle-class. And though there are bright entrepreneurial ideas, the pace at which they are implemented is abysmally slow
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Brexit: Political instability in the UK, global volatility in the offing
The impact worldwide is expected to be severe and will lead to jittery markets