Mumbai Startup Accelerator Ecosystem: Why 1Mby1M Leads the Conversation

Mumbai startup accelerator ecosystem and its finance-savvy founders don’t need equity-first accelerators. 1Mby1M offers a virtual, bootstrap-first, equity-free path for entrepreneurs.

YourStory.in Shares Highlights Of Sramana Mitra’s TiE Chennai Event

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, Sramana Mitra delivered the keynote address and held an in-person roundtable for entrepreneurs at TiE Chennai’s Startup Super Day. YourStory.in shares the highlights of the day here. Sramana will be participating in similar 1M/1M events in India this weekend. You can learn more about the event in Mumbai on Saturday,

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Mumbai Attacks

India seems to have now become a target for Islamic terrorist attacks and if the “success” of the current crisis is any indication, this could completely destabilize the economic development process for the country. India has the third-largest Muslim population in the world, with 154 million Muslims. If a Hindu-Muslim conflict blows up, we’re in

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Offshoring Secrets: Is India Center Becoming Costly?

By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”. Recently this question has flooded the web and the print media. Some companies are thinking about pulling back from India. So what is the real answer? Globally, weakening of the dollar has impacted almost every country whether it is Israel, China, Malaysia or Poland, and therefore

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Jagriti Yatra

Kaustav Bhattacharya sends this open letter: Ten years ago a young gentleman by the name of Shashank Tripathi set out to organize a train journey around India for 200 gifted students to commemorate 50 years of India’s independence and visit the change makers who were defining and shaping India.

Beyond Bangalore

India’s development needs to spread well beyond Bangalore at this point, as is evident from data and arguments presented in a series of previous pieces such as Team of Twenty One, India’s Scale Concerns: Real Estate, India’s Real Estate Concerns, and India’s Real Estate Concerns Point to Second Tier Cities. Meanwhile, billions of dollars get

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India’s Real Estate Concerns Point to Second Tier Cities

Real Estate in Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi are all too expensive. The IT/ITES industry scaling needs to happen elsewhere: :: Kolkata is gradually undergoing a transformation which will have a long term impact on the city and its future growth. Earlier, Dalhousie Square (BBD Bag) gave way to Park Street, Chowringhee Road and Camac Street, as

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India’s Real Estate Concerns

Bangalore’s real estate situation is concerning. Mumbai was already super expensive, and never considered a location for large IT/ITES operations. :: Mumbai’s commercial real estate market has appreciated considerably over the last one year. Rents in South Mumbai (CBD) for Prime and Grade A office space are up by 73% while capital values are up

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