Showing posts with label ET Sunday Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ET Sunday Magazine. Show all posts
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
ET Sunday Magazine
CarIQ & Zene: Startups that decode a car's natural intelligence & help it communicate with you
ET Sunday Magazine
How Indian startup SmartVizX is using virtual reality in real estate & product design
There's a new kid on the technology block, and it is beginning to take the world by storm. Facebook was among the first to place its bets on it over a year ago, and nowMicrosoft, Google, Sony, Samsung and HTC are fast following suit. If you love Star Wars and Mario Kart and have ever held a Wii controller or owned an Xbox console, then you probably know how real gaming can feel.
Saturday, 1 August 2015
ET Sunday Magazine
How iSPIRT is helping Indian software product startups get exposure to international markets
How do you communicate a unique,
innovative concept that defies definition, labels or boundaries, yet
has clear goals, a strong, well-planned structure and a definite,
luminous path ahead? Well, how do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
ET Sunday Magazine
Flavour Labs: Why the boutique food & hospitality company is betting on food trucks
Those of us who ever lived in a small
town will remember the sonorous sound of metal ladle striking iron
skillet of the local tikki-wallah trying to attract customers. Or the
melodious tinkle of the ice-cream cart bell or the chuski-seller's
raucous cry calling out to buy his wares.
ET Sunday Magazine
Guardian: New emergency response system allows women in distress to get help through crowd-protection
ET Sunday Magazine
How Curofy, started up by three IIT grads, is focused on connecting the medical community
ET Sunday Magazine
Why Indian startups like Bugworks, Vitas Pharma have entered the field of drug discovery
Friday, 26 December 2014
ET Sunday Magazine
Billion Dollar Babies: Why Indian-American entrepreneurs are betting on born-in-India startups
ET Sunday Magazine
Meet Kia Scherr, a peace entrepreneur, whose husband & daughter were killed in 26/11 terror attacks
ET Sunday Magazine
How Wishberry, a crowdfunding platform, has positioned itself at the intersection of creativity & commerce
By: Jyoti Pande Lavakare
They sell you dreams. Your own dreams, actually. And then they help you fund those dreams, to make them a reality.
Wishberry, a crowdfunding platform cofounded by two high- energy, articulate and intelligent entrepreneurs, is an unashamed knock off of an existing, successful idea that international platforms such as Indiegogo (founded in 2008), Kickstarter (2009), Pozible (2010) and others captured early. Many similar Indian funding platforms have spawned from the originals — including Wishberry in its current avatar (2012).
They sell you dreams. Your own dreams, actually. And then they help you fund those dreams, to make them a reality.
Wishberry, a crowdfunding platform cofounded by two high- energy, articulate and intelligent entrepreneurs, is an unashamed knock off of an existing, successful idea that international platforms such as Indiegogo (founded in 2008), Kickstarter (2009), Pozible (2010) and others captured early. Many similar Indian funding platforms have spawned from the originals — including Wishberry in its current avatar (2012).
ET Sunday Magazine
Ducere Technologies' Lechal: 'Innovated in India' shoes meant to ensure you never get lost
By: Jyoti Pande Lavakare
First came the sleek, fashionable, inclusive and wearable technology with a cause:
Lechal, the innovative, bluetooth-enabled haptic shoe (haptic technology recreates the sense of touch via vibrations).
Then came even greater innovation: in thinking through and deciding upon the actual process of manufacturing that tech-embedded shoe — right here in India — using differently-abled people. When both product and process innovation become so integrated in the overall philosophy of the company that you can't separate one from the other — it's about inclusion as much as about profit — it truly becomes the coolest thing.
But let's begin from the beginning. At an elementary level, Lechal shoes appear to intersect the worlds of sci-fi and magic — with a bit of James Bond thrown in. If you wear these shoes, you can never get lost — even if you're blind.
First came the sleek, fashionable, inclusive and wearable technology with a cause:
Lechal, the innovative, bluetooth-enabled haptic shoe (haptic technology recreates the sense of touch via vibrations).
Then came even greater innovation: in thinking through and deciding upon the actual process of manufacturing that tech-embedded shoe — right here in India — using differently-abled people. When both product and process innovation become so integrated in the overall philosophy of the company that you can't separate one from the other — it's about inclusion as much as about profit — it truly becomes the coolest thing.
But let's begin from the beginning. At an elementary level, Lechal shoes appear to intersect the worlds of sci-fi and magic — with a bit of James Bond thrown in. If you wear these shoes, you can never get lost — even if you're blind.
ET Sunday Magazine
Abki Baar Disruption’: TiEcon Delhi 2014 aims to attract happening entrepreneurial themes & startups
, ET Bureau
By Jyoti Pande Lavakare
For those tracking entrepreneurial activity for years, the most natural places to network and get a pulse of the industry are the TiEcons — possibly the largest professional conferences for entrepreneurs in the world, organized as region-specific and sector-specific events, crowned by one annual general event in the larger cities.
However, over the years, the conferences organised by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, had become a little boring — the same speakers, the same topics, the same poster boys, and mostly even the same locations. And really, how many times can one listen to yet another talk on funding, mentoring, pitching, revenue models and term sheets?
For those tracking entrepreneurial activity for years, the most natural places to network and get a pulse of the industry are the TiEcons — possibly the largest professional conferences for entrepreneurs in the world, organized as region-specific and sector-specific events, crowned by one annual general event in the larger cities.
However, over the years, the conferences organised by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, had become a little boring — the same speakers, the same topics, the same poster boys, and mostly even the same locations. And really, how many times can one listen to yet another talk on funding, mentoring, pitching, revenue models and term sheets?
ET Sunday Magazine
Beer & Business Club: Independence Brewing’s Shailendra Bist organizes events to attract start-ups
ET Sunday Magazine
How Saurya EnerTech's purifier Swajal uses solar energy to give clean water at an affordable rate
, ET Bureau
By Jyoti Pande Lavakare
What if India was able to provide clean drinking water to its poorest citizens at truly affordable rates? What if that water was harvested from the ground and purified by clean solar energy so efficiently that it used less than one third the energy a regular solar purifier used? What if the actual purification of water could be customized to the region — areas with high flouride or arsenic versus areas with high bacterial pollutants getting different cleaning processes working for them — and the water dispensed with the help of a smartcard?
If this sounds like a fairytale, keep reading. Because several start-ups are beginning to tackle problems relating to water. From too much (e.g. waterlogging) to too little. One such innovation is Swajal, which uses solar energy to purify drinking water at an affordable rate.
What if India was able to provide clean drinking water to its poorest citizens at truly affordable rates? What if that water was harvested from the ground and purified by clean solar energy so efficiently that it used less than one third the energy a regular solar purifier used? What if the actual purification of water could be customized to the region — areas with high flouride or arsenic versus areas with high bacterial pollutants getting different cleaning processes working for them — and the water dispensed with the help of a smartcard?
If this sounds like a fairytale, keep reading. Because several start-ups are beginning to tackle problems relating to water. From too much (e.g. waterlogging) to too little. One such innovation is Swajal, which uses solar energy to purify drinking water at an affordable rate.
ET Sunday Magazine
BreezeScan: Innobreeze Technologies develops non-invasive device to detect cancer
ET Sunday Magazine
Zerodors: IITian Uttam Banerjee's Ekam Eco Solutions to take waterless toilets to national scale
By: Jyoti Pande Lavakare
Last week, I entered a men's urinal for the first time, in the mostly male bastion of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D), expecting the worst. I was escorted by an innovator who has a master's in industrial design from the same institute. Uttam Banerjee's start-up Ekam Eco Solutions is trying to find solutions for one of India's biggest problems — sanitation and organic waste management — and he has begun by installing low-cost, waterless urinals in his immediate surroundings.
The urinal he showed me was just off a crowded hallway that led to classrooms at one end and a cafeteria at the other — an area with obviously high footfalls — and one of the 600 that IIT-D has paid to have retrofitted with Zerodor, the waterless urinal technology created and patented by one of its own some years ago.
Last week, I entered a men's urinal for the first time, in the mostly male bastion of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D), expecting the worst. I was escorted by an innovator who has a master's in industrial design from the same institute. Uttam Banerjee's start-up Ekam Eco Solutions is trying to find solutions for one of India's biggest problems — sanitation and organic waste management — and he has begun by installing low-cost, waterless urinals in his immediate surroundings.
The urinal he showed me was just off a crowded hallway that led to classrooms at one end and a cafeteria at the other — an area with obviously high footfalls — and one of the 600 that IIT-D has paid to have retrofitted with Zerodor, the waterless urinal technology created and patented by one of its own some years ago.
ET Sunday Magazine
Startup Dosti: Provides cross-border mentorship, seed funding to Indian & Pakistani entrepreneurs
ET Sunday Magazine
FailCon: Platform for tech start-ups that helps entrepreneurs overcome 'shame of failure'
By Jyoti Pande Lavakare
Ask any angel investor or venture capitalist, and they'll tell you that the chances of a start-up succeeding are less than 10%. The circumspect among them will say it is less than 1%. More pithily, as a senior partner in an India-focused venture fund who evaluates start-ups on an almost daily basis puts it: "You have better odds of winning at Russian roulette than this. It's a suicidal equation."
There has been enough anecdotal evidence to back the low success rate of start-ups, and a recent study by the Harvard Business School's Shikhar Ghosh has validated what most within the ecosystem already know. Ghosh's study says that at the least, 75% of all start-ups fail, depending on how you define failure.
Ask any angel investor or venture capitalist, and they'll tell you that the chances of a start-up succeeding are less than 10%. The circumspect among them will say it is less than 1%. More pithily, as a senior partner in an India-focused venture fund who evaluates start-ups on an almost daily basis puts it: "You have better odds of winning at Russian roulette than this. It's a suicidal equation."
There has been enough anecdotal evidence to back the low success rate of start-ups, and a recent study by the Harvard Business School's Shikhar Ghosh has validated what most within the ecosystem already know. Ghosh's study says that at the least, 75% of all start-ups fail, depending on how you define failure.
ET Sunday Magazine
Teaxpress: Assamese entrepreneur Kaushal Dugar using e-commerce to supply quality packaged tea
By Jyoti Pande Lavakare
I'm walking in a verdant tea plantation in Assam, having driven past several glittering tea gardens and some interesting retail outlets with a dazzling array of tea varieties, seriously wondering why no one ever thought to develop tea-estate tours the way wine tours are done in Napa or Bordeaux or Stellenbosch. After all, the taste of tea, like wine, depends on terroir, growth period, variety, climate and processing refinement.
This region seems like it still belongs to a previous century, and that feeling is reinforced the next day when I wander through old Guwahati. Antiquated, decrepit shops with mounds of tea intersperse with others that sell rice in hundreds of varieties (including one that needs no cooking, called komal saul) and I can almost imagine commodities, especially tea, being auctioned here the oldfashioned way. Then, serendipitously, I discover an innovator.
I'm walking in a verdant tea plantation in Assam, having driven past several glittering tea gardens and some interesting retail outlets with a dazzling array of tea varieties, seriously wondering why no one ever thought to develop tea-estate tours the way wine tours are done in Napa or Bordeaux or Stellenbosch. After all, the taste of tea, like wine, depends on terroir, growth period, variety, climate and processing refinement.
This region seems like it still belongs to a previous century, and that feeling is reinforced the next day when I wander through old Guwahati. Antiquated, decrepit shops with mounds of tea intersperse with others that sell rice in hundreds of varieties (including one that needs no cooking, called komal saul) and I can almost imagine commodities, especially tea, being auctioned here the oldfashioned way. Then, serendipitously, I discover an innovator.
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