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This couple quit their jobs to travel the world and is building a business on...
Big corporations and the employable model A couple of months ago Brazilian entrepreneur Gustavo Tanaka shared a massively popular post on Medium titled, ‘There is something extraordinary happening in...
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Continuous exploration gave me the confidence to put my idea out into the...
Art and science “My studio in Assam is like a science laboratory. I am always searching for materials which are used as a catalyst in other products, mixing and combining different craft forms like...
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How Madman’s Farm is exploring the question of living a meaningful life
Around 160km outside Bhopal lies the Madman’s Farm where a bunch of former city slickers, who’ve chucked their corporate jobs, have gathered together to grow their own food, practice sustainability...
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Becoming an entrepreneur is easy. Staying one is not: Nupur Joshi Thanks,...
Nupur Joshi Thanks’s father worked in the public sector for most of his life and then in the private sector before starting his own business at the age of 59. Nupur says of the man who is her biggest...
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How Code to Inspire is harnessing the power of tech to set free young Afghan...
Fereshteh Forough began life as a refugee. Her parents migrated to Iran during the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan, and she was born there. After completing high school in Iran and one year after the...
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‘Once I gained the industry knowledge and experience I knew I was ready to...
“I think everyone dreams of creating something of their own,” says Shilpi Yadav. “From the very beginning this is something I really wanted and took the steps to build up to it. I studied and...
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Pachisi: A college project that evolved into a startup to highlight India’s...
26 year old Murthy had no grand plans on what she wanted to do with her life. She was concentrating on getting Neha Murthy through her college project. The textile design major says, “Pachisi was...
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The freedom to create value has been the best part about starting up, says...
Switching tracks When Misha and Amit Gudibanda first started up with their maiden venture in 2006, they were excited being at the helm of an idea whose time had come. “Sky Design was set up in 2006 on...
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‘Your idea is only as successful as your perseverance’: Jassu Sekhon,...
A tale of two startups Jassu Sekhon and her husband Amit Sinha returned to India in 2011 after many years in the US, to be a part of the fast-changing Indian city life. They settled down in Amit’s...
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Street children are the unlikely team of heroes behind the world’s most...
Shanno Khan began working in the pant hook-making industry when she turned 13, sometimes even working through the night. Her father is an alcoholic who rarely earned and mostly stayed away. Shanno...
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Our only intent was to test our limits: Nidhi Tiwari on her Delhi to London...
On July 23, 2015 a trio of formidable women flagged off from Delhi on a historic journey. They were driving to London and the trip would be first of its kind in the world. Helming the trip was de...
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Self-worth is not related to the language I speak: How Pratilipi is...
“I was doing incredibly well at my job and this meant that I wasn’t pushing myself hard enough,” says Pratilipi co-founder Ranjeet Pratap Singh. He continues, “I didn’t feel I was creating as much...
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‘It requires breaking silence. It requires risking shame’ – Mapping Sexual...
“Even though I write for children, and visit many schools, I had never spoke about my own experience. I started to meet a number of girls – in schools, as well as the daughters of my friends – who I...
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Why French entrepreneur Julie Rousselet chose to startup in India
To say that Julie Rouselet’s journey as an entrepreneur has been extraordinary is an understatement. The 35-year-old half French half German businesswoman is running two startups simultaneously in two...
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How best friends turned co-founders are building their dream business
“We didn’t set out to become entrepreneurs. We simply noticed a gap in the market, addressed a category we were passionate about, and chose to fill the gap ourselves. The entrepreneurial bit was...
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The Entrepreneur Podcast interviews Asia’s entrepreneurs and chronicles their...
In his fifteen year corporate career Rajiv Unnikrishnan flirted with several startup ideas, but ultimately remained loyal to his tech employers. Things changed when he started listening to podcasts...
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A blind girl on an elephant travelled 1,000km across South India to prove...
Caroline Casey’s enduring childhood dream was to become Mowgli from The Jungle Book. But as she grew older, she relegated that dream to the cobwebs of memory because an exciting adulthood beckoned....
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[The Big Interview] How Binod Chaudhary built Nepal’s first billion dollar...
Usually, third-generation entrepreneurs from established business families are born with the proverbial silver spoon, which makes their startup journey much more conflict-free than those bootstrapping...
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As the sole founder, the journey can be quite lonely at times — Akshay...
The potential of India’s luxury market has attracted entrepreneurs from around the world to start up here. Growing at approximately $225 million per annum, it has contributed to the changing...
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Why Ivy League and Wall Street alum Chinmay Shah gave up his plush job abroad...
Chinmay Shah earned his master’s in Economics from Duke University, and began working in equity research focused on the oil and gas sector in the US. But the fact that his heart lay in entrepreneurship...
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