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Muktak Joshi sold Ticket Utils​ (among top three) to ebay

Muktak Joshi sold Ticket Utils, among the top 3 ticket selling software companies to ebay By Rishi Saraf 29-Jan-2017 : From a young age he successfully built & sold software. His life story is one of several ups & downs. He shares useful insights. At an early age he learnt programming, became a Microsoft Certified …

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Do what you can be the best in the world at says Gireendra Kasmalkar

Do what you can be the best in the world at By Rishi Saraf 25-Nov-2016 Gireendra is the Founder Director & CEO of Idea to Impacts. He shares his learnings : Cities are already overcrowded, there are opportunities in towns which can bring diversity & new thought. When operating in towns there is savings in …

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Leveraging technology for small & mid-sized business

Leveraging technology for small & mid sized business By Rishi Saraf 23-Oct-2016 Shashank Garg, co-founder Infocepts shared useful insights for SMEs: Social is important, increase your social presence through Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter. Linkedin is useful for interactions with friends, employees and customers. You can make small 30 sec to 2 min clips for Youtube …

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Brilliant talk on Marketing Strategy by Sandeep Dongre

Brilliant talk on marketing strategy By Rishi Saraf 12-Sep-2016 The company in which Sachin Dongre is Sr VP has grown into a 7000 crore company, and growing @40%. The company does not advertise. He shares his learnings ; Do market research yourself, do not depend on other’s opinions. Assumptions change after proper market research. Select one …

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India’s pioneering networking Coach, Paritosh Pathak shares insights

Networking advise By Rishi Saraf 22-Jul-2016 India’s pioneering networking Coach, Paritosh Pathak has some very useful advise: People 1st buy people, then they buy what they sell. Build relationship with people, build their trust. Do not try to sell your product in networking event. Unless someone asks, do not go on distributing your biz card. …

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Build engagement with your audience says Adarsh Nigam

Build engagement with your audience By Rishi Saraf 03-Jul-2016 Build your engagement with your audience, build your community on social media says Adarsh Nigam, Marketing specialist and the man behind brands like Talwalkars, Khana Khazana and several others. He gave useful suggestions : Use Google Analytics & other free tools to see what is being viewed …

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To grow from a business to an institution OD can help says Rahul Yadwadkar

To grow from a business to an institution OD can help By Rishi Saraf 17-Jan-2016 : We may not realize that excessive owner control, fear, lack of clarity, conflicting values, centralized leadership, limited empowerment, lack of reward policy, etc may be limiting you to being a small business says Rahul Yadwadkar, OD Practitioner and Sr VP …

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Exports is a clean business says Rukshad Bhagwagar

Exports is a clean business 28-Dec-2015 Rukshad Bhagwagar’s advise to entrepreneurs on export: Exports is a clean business and one is assured of payments for material supplied. Exporters get incentives of about 7% (2% duty drawback, 5% import licence which one can sell). Loan obtained abroad comes at low interest rates of about 4% (1% …

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Do something different says Rukshad Bhagwagar

Do something different By Rishi Saraf 28-Dec-2015 Rukshad Bhagwagar is Founder & Managing Partner of Forms which has become a leading name in handicraft exports from Central India. He shares valuable insights: See what others are doing and do something different. Observe your competitors, the big foreign competitors are not interested in low volume items, …

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Pick a Problem & find a better solution for it with help of technology

Pick a problem & find a better solution for it with the help of technology 23-dec-2015 : Every problem in India is strength, pick a problem and find a better solution for it with the help of technology says Prof Nagaraja Prakasam. People are wiling to pay if we provide them right solutions. For startups in agriculture …

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Produce a world-class product, go for niche items, get certifications

Produce a world-class product, go for niche items, get certification By Rishi Saraf 22-Nov-2015 It is necessary to produce a world-class product with internationally acceptable price says Rooshad Patel, Founder & MD, Hi Tech Resistors Pvt Ltd. One must get the certifications. One must add-value and go for niche items he says. He was speaking on …

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Finance is not a limitation trust is says Chet Jain

Finance is not the limitation, trust is By Rishi Saraf 22-Nov-2015 : Finance is available for SMEs through crowd-funding and even mentoring is available. In IT field not much capital is required says Chet Jain, Founder Crowera. One can look beyond the local economy as enablers abroad are available. One can take help of diaspora in the …

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Crucial Legal clauses, Certifications, Foreign Agreements, Currency fluctuation, Distributor, Liability for SMEs wanting to go global

Crucial legal clauses for SMEs wanting to go global By Rishi Saraf 22-Nov-2015 Rooshad Patel is Founder & MD, Hi Tech Resistors Pvt Ltd. He shares useful learnings: On commercial terms he suggested that for quotations, one must choose a stable currency, and put a currency fluctuation clause, e.g. my price is X in currency …

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How Sumitomo of Japan was found by Spacewood through network

How spacewood found Sumitomo of Japan through their network By Rishi Saraf 22-Nov-2015 : Spacewood is India’s leading manufacturer of Modular Furniture. Kirit Joshi, Founder & Executive Director shares insights on their collaborator Sumitomo of Japan found through their network. For a foreign collaborator the following are the considerations: First consideration is about the integrity of …

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Era of collboration, co-marketing, co-purchasing, co-learning

Era of collaboration, co-marketing, co-purchasing, co-learning By Rishi Saraf 22-Nov-2015 : This is an era of collaboration, we must develop activities like co-information, co-learning, co-marketing, co-purchasing instead of doing all such activities individually says Dr Somsekhar Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor, Strategic Management National Institute of Industrial Engineering. He was speaking at the Global Nagpur Summit.

Investment will come when people in a city start trading says Chandru Iyer

Investment will come when people in a city start trading By Rishi Saraf 21-Nov-2015 : There must be more specialties for a city to be global, it will happen when people begin to think of business globally says Chandru Iyer, International Business Development Director, Kingston Smith, UK. Resources, skills and opportunities are distributed across boundaries, we need …

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