India Accelerator successfully conducted its first Demo Day, on February 16th, 2018, showcasing the Startup cohort at the Palms Country Club, Gurgaon. The event saw the presence of some eminent personalities like Harminder Sahni, Wazir (Founder) and Consultant, as the keynote speaker, startup veteran Prajakt Raut, investors like Pankaj Chopra, Ankush Gupta, Manav Bahri, Sumeet Arora, representatives from GAN Venture Fund, Keirestu Fund, IAN, corporate strategists and many HNI’s.
Read MoreThe trend of starting up in India is on a rise. You can see the majority of start-up entrepreneurs hunting for great accelerator programs. The opportunity to join an accelerator program helps them in fetching funds and entrepreneurial perks in exchange of a nominal equity and leadership.
Read More2018 will see a boom in conversational interface development with more and more developers creating Alexa skills, Google actions, and Apple Home Kit automation that can be used by the respective ecosystems
Read MoreStartups are always rushing to ship new product features as fast as possible. Time-to-Market is one of the most important factors to survive out there. Unfortunately, the most common casualty in the rush to ship things faster is ‘Product Quality’. You willingly cut corners wherever possible to ensure that timelines are met, unknowingly increasing your Technical Debt.
Read MoreRewind a couple of years and it felt that Life had ‘two states’: the things you do that’s called ‘work’ & the rest of the time you could do what you wanted, and that was called ‘play’. And the twain shall never meet! The two were separate buckets where one waited for the weekends to roll in to make up for the weekdays!
Don’t get me wrong - I liked my work enough to keep me going…and how much are you supposed to like what you do anyway? Well, quite a lot I guess.
Read MoreThe most common abbreviation used when one feels frustrated and tired of the monotony of work. We all wish to do something of our own so often that we forget about the persisting cons, which is always field specific, we forget that they will still exist.Being blind-sided by the dream state persona of a business venture is the step we need to watch out for or one may step into the illusion of a reality that does not exist.
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