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Sam Santhosh's leadership learnings for the first-time Indian entrepreneur
The self-made businessman has worked with several pharma and biotech companies for targeted therapies and innovation through his company MedGenome. He has also incubated and launched many companies leveraging next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics through his incubator SciGenom Labs. He talks to host Divya Shekhar about his book, 'Sam's 12 Commandments for the Indian Entrepreneur', where he draws upon over 35 years of experience to delve deep into the psyche of Indians doing business and shares lessons that will help them succeed
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Hoopla and Hubris: Why Indian startups are coming undone
The low tide of funding has exposed the ugly underbelly of the startup ecosystem in India—financial irregularities, forensic auditing, glaring absence of corporate governance, acts of omission and commission. Is there a way to fix the system?
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From Twitter to Tesla, how Modi's fan Musk is getting ready for big India plans
A year after its standoff with the government over selling mandates, the Tesla founder is gung-ho about entering India and complying with guidelines
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The economics and politics of falling oil prices
Despite forecasts of a looming oil market deficit of 2.4 million barrels per day, prices have remained surprisingly low. Here's why
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BharatNXT: The bridge to effective payments solutions for SMEs
The promoters have made a successful pivot from being a supply chain financier to a profitable business payments platform for SMEs. It now has bigger plans
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Learning, wisdom and experience: How an ayurveda startup from India is winning on the global front
The Ayurveda Experience, an ayurvedic skincare and nutrition D2C brand from India, has scaled briskly across the US, Europe and Australia. Can it achieve similar results on home turf?
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IndiGo has beaten Air India to the mother of all aviation deals. Now, the rivalry is getting real
IndiGo's new order of 500 A320 family aircraft indicates the growth potential of the Indian aviation market
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As Paris Air Show returns, sustainability is aviation's biggest challenge
Nearly two-thirds of respondents in the US, UK and India, in a GE Aerospace survey, say the pace of implementation of decarbonisation strategies is "too slow"
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Heat, steam & perception: Inside Triveni Turbine's audacious global gambit
Triveni Turbine has posted its best fiscal performance in over a decade. With contribution from foreign markets growing at a faster clip, can India's biggest steam turbine maker engineer a playbook for a dominant global play?
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Indigenous manufacturing ready to raise the bar of value addition in defence and aviation
This fortnight's issue of Forbes India is focussed on how a heightened mix of activity by the public sector, private sector, multinational players and startups is pushing the ambitious Aatmanirbhar Bharat targets—hit a turnover of $25 billion from aerospace and defence goods and services by 2025, with exports accounting for $5 billion, or roughly Rs41,000 crore
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From defence dreams of TASL to the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, here are our most-read stories of the week
Hindustan Aeronautics' plans, Ajay Mariwala's second innings, need for stringent data security rules are some of the stories that piqued the interest of our readers this week