Transformation by design

Oct 01, 2014

Polaris’ Arun Jain has engineered a unique strategy at the mid-sized financial technology company, incubating a robust products company from within a running services entity. He has put together an A-Team of five CEOs to mastermind two companies

Arun Jain BFSI Financial Technology Global Transaction Banking Global Universal Banking Insurance Intellectual Property Polaris Risk and Treasury Management

A spare parts strategy for oems in the automobile sector

Oct 01, 2014

Puneet Kulraj, founding director of Vector Consulting Group and a recognised global expert in Theory of Constraints, shares with us a game plan that automobile OEMs can adopt for their spare parts and after-sales service market

Automobile Industry OEM Service business Vector Consulting

Staying true to ‘corporate character’ means, realising that trust is not transactional

Oct 01, 2014

Corporate character is not determined by how many questions we ask our customers, but by how we question our customers, how we answer them, and how we collaborate with them

brand management customer satisfaction Dov Seidman employee management LRN stakeholder management

The fundamentals of managing fast paced start-ups

Oct 01, 2014

Ajai Chowdhry, one of the six co-founders of HCL and a Padma Bhushan awardee, reminds entrepreneurs leading fast-paced ventures about some of the basics of dealing with challenges that comes with scale

Ajai Chowdhry Financial Management Fund Management HCL Technologies Leadership Scaling up Startup Hiring

Trippin’ on a plan

Oct 01, 2014

For travel itinerary portal, TripHobo, the journey’s just begun. At present, it has 25,000 itinerary plans listed and provides information on 250 cities. It also has 1.5 lakh unique visitors per month and by next fiscal, it

Kalaari Capital travel itinerary travel startup TripHobo

The line of print

Oct 01, 2014

Printo has shown that catering to the printing needs of micro and small business can be profitable. With an annual growth rate of nearly 35 per cent, the company is looking to touch the Rs. 100-crore revenue mark in

Printo Sequoia Capital SMEs

The need of every boring hour

Oct 01, 2014

The Nearify app, with a user base of 100,000 registered users, collates information on local events and has a listing of over one million upcoming events. In the next year, it aims to list over two million upcoming events

Bedrock Ventures event listing India Quotient Nearify Seedfund Advisors tech startup

Quikr’s cmo, vineet seghal, gives us a peek into the marketing mix of a startup

Oct 01, 2014

MADHUMITA PRABHAKAR Vineet Seghal, the newly appointed chief marketing officer of Quikr, the online classifieds startup, believes in seeing an opportunity in every limitation. Here’s why. Having worked for over 18…  

Advertising Branding CMO Ecommerce listing portal Marketing Quikr Startup Marketing

“The expectation from a CFO has changed dramatically”

Oct 01, 2014

In his first week as CSS Corp’s CFO, Veerasundar Veluswamy had to oversee the company’s transaction with Partners Group and in successfully doing so, his impact was immense. Today, he believes in adding value to the organisation by

CFO CFO Responsibilities CSS Corp Partners Group

The patient capital conundrum

Oct 01, 2014

Investors and entrepreneurs often grapple with identifying the optimal holding period (time from investment to exit) for an investment in a growth company. In this feature, we speak to two entrepreneurs and two investors to gather their thoughts on the

Alok Mittal Canaan Advisors India External Funding Fund Raising Matrimony.com Mcap Fund Managers Murugavel Janakiraman Patient Capital Quatrro BPO Solutions. Scope eKnowledge Works