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Ronnie Screwvala, the legendary Indian entrepreneur, who changed the media and entertainment business landscape in India, famously quotes in his recent book ‘ Dream with your eyes open’ – ‘Even if it ain’t broke, fix it’. He refers to the need for every business to constantly look outwar......Read More

Lee Iacocca, the famous past Chairman of Chrysler, who wrote the famous turnaround story of Chrysler Corporation in the US, chronicled in his bestselling novels that, we misguide young managers between the words ‘activity’ and ‘accomplishments’. One of his work supervisors famously advised h......Read More

In a recent interview a popular management behavioural scientist commented that the happiest moment in the lives of entrepreneurs is the time when they start their businesses. The start-up phase is the ‘romantic’ era of their lives. A phase when there is bliss in their minds, smile on their lips......Read More

You look at your idea and feel those goose bumps of purely being enamoured with the product or service. You sleep less and dream more and nothing can come in between you and business success. While the excitement of ‘starting something’ is often too overwhelming and in some sense a little romant......Read More

Is Kerala a good place to do business? What kind of business can be successfully carried on in Kerala? Is Kerala a good place to set up a manufacturing business? The picture of the Terumo Penpol Blood Bag factory in Trivandrum  says it all: a vast sea of emerald green treetops stretching to th......Read More

Entrepreneurship has not really been a popular word in Kerala. We have seen time and again in the past the difficulties of those who embrace self-employment avenues and start new businesses. The entire stakeholder community – the government, the academia and the society have never taken a positive......Read More

Every developed and developing economy around the world is fuelled by pursuits and successes of small and medium scale entrepreneurs. Countries which have a burgeoning environment for entrepreneurship development are able to counter and overcome the vicious assaults of economic recessions and fiscal......Read More

We spend time to learn from the ‘My stories’ of great entrepreneurs. Often what we take away is the ‘romantic’ tryst they had with their ventures, the thrilling ups and downs they faced in the business scenario and the stupendous success, especially from when it is a ‘rags to riches’ sto......Read More

”Entrepreneurship is a passion. Like great works of art, music or even writing, they are born of enormous sacrifice. Sometimes there are rewards at the end of the tunnel, very often there are none. True entrepreneurs will pursue their dreams regardless. It is great continuous journey with sever......Read More

24 Sep 2014 was a landmark day in Indian space research as as Mangalyaan, India’s MARS orbiter inserted itself successfully into orbit. There have only been three other successful orbiter missions to Martian orbit: from the United States, Russia, and the European Space Agency. Even more impressiv......Read More