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India’s startup ecosystem has been singed by Paytm and Byju’s controversies. Dominant founders and weak boards are a problem. But don’t discount quiet successes This past week the Indian startup world has been whiplashed like never before. Two of its biggest names, Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Byju’s founder Byju Raveendran, face what’s arguably an
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Indian tax system is fairer and cleaner than ever, except for salaried income earners This is what economists, bureaucrats and politicians across time and parties agree on: ‘Broaden the tax base and reduce the tax rates’, i.e., more people in India should pay income tax and, as that happens, tax rates should come down. This
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The interim Union Budget will be presented by the Hon’ble Finance Minister on the 1st of February. While some of the technicalities may seem overwhelming to grasp, it is useful to simplify concepts for easier understanding. If we think of a country as simply a family; let’s say Mr and Mrs Sharma and their 2
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Low global fuel price helps GOI. But frozen domestic pump prices are a distortion Modi government heads into its last budget this term with international crude prices working in its favour. Indian basket was priced at $80.5 a barrel on Tuesday. Price trends since Israel-Hamas conflict began in October have defied market fears of a
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Writing exactly a year after Hindenburg report hit headlines, Adani Group chairman defends his business practices and argues his companies’ performance shows ‘allegations’ were ‘baseless’ It was on Jan 25, 2023, exactly a year ago, when news arrived at breakfast that a short-seller in New York had put up a compilation of allegations against Adani
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That Sensex fell yesterday is normal seesaw. Point is Indian markets can permanently overtake Hong Kong’s in value India’s equity market on Monday crossed a threshold. Market value of all listed Indian shares was $4.33 trillion, pushing it ahead of Hong Kong to become the world’s fourth largest equity market. That it fell over 1000
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Credit: created using DALL-E At Tau Ventures we hear from many entrepreneurs around the world that they want to build or expand a healthcare business into the US because it’s a large single market. While the US does hold many advantages for a startup to grow, it’s hardly a monolith and if anything, it’s
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20-30% of B2B SaaS startups fail within the first 3 years. Yes, that’s the harsh reality of the SaaS market. Some of them failed because of poor product quality or utility, but most of them failed due to their wrong marketing tactics. Startups have limited budgets for marketing, as most of their budgets are drained
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The big boys are back in action. Having stayed in the dugout for most part of the year, large cap mutual funds have taken the field again and are calling the shots with an envious performance. Let’s take a sneak peek at how the indices fared. The Nifty 50 clocked its best month since July
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Introduction Increased urbanisation in India has propelled growth of the country’s food processing industry with her domestic processing capacity reaching 20 million metric tonnes since 2014, following efforts by the government to modernise the agro-industry ecosystem, presenting increasing opportunities to the foreign investors and the start-ups. Introduction of the PLI Scheme for the Food Processing
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