It is going to be an extremely hard job. No amount of preparation or education is going to prepare you for what it demands. You will feel like quitting at so many instances. Don’t, just persist. It’s a lonely job. There will be no one who you can tell everything about your work. Uncertainty is the hallmark of entrepreneurship. You have no guarantee that you will last a year, at times a month and...
Tax holiday for startups should be provided in first few profitable yrs instead of first 3 yrs
Progressive steps taken by the Union Government for the Startup Community in its Start-up India initiative are encouraging. We hope the Union budget will reflect a similar sentiment and introduce policies around tax relaxations and process simplifications. The structure of taxation and corporate laws in India is not very conducive for startups and early stage companies. A lot of these issues were...
HackerEarth: an online technical sourcing and assessment solution – Sachin Gupta, Co-founder. #PNHangout.
HackerEarth is a Bangalore based start-up which helps companies hire programmers. It was started in 2012 by Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash, both of whom are alumni of IIT Roorkee. HackerEarth provides solutions for the technical recruitment space – one is an online assessment tool which is used by organizations to assess both internal and external candidates. Another solution acts as an...
We invested in Ezetap, the Square for Emerging Markets! Mobile, Internet, Payments interest us! AngelPrime #ThinkInvestor
ThinkInvestor is iSPIRT and ProductNation’s new initiative to serve as a catalyst between Venture Capital firms, Angels, Angel Networks and Entrepreneurs. It is to go beyond brochure ware and dig deeper into the whole life cycle of a typical investment; from introductions, funding, styles of on-going engagement, to exits. And in the process, capture their views on global and local trends...