Over the last few years, I seeked advice and mentorship from various senior and kind leaders in the capital markets and technology...

Having done 2000+ final round interviews (for shortlisted candidates) in the last 3 years, we have had several discussions with...

Entrepreneurship is booming around the world. This decade will witness most start-up firms ever in the history of mankind. The balance of...

It’s a good situation for a start-up to have built a product / service and have some live / beta client(s) to work with. If proven, the...

It’s a brave move for entrepreneurs to move from any “comfortable” career path to start a start-up. Some of those with lot of hard work...

Business Planning Don’t make a business plan where you target to get a few percentage points of a multi-million of billion market, and...

The US subprime crisis in 2007 had shaken the foundation of US economy and eventually the global economy. Subprime loans (loans for...

The tremendous growth in financial trading volumes in the last couple of decades has been made possible only with the use of technology....

As we know that some successful entrepreneurs are drop outs from various colleges, its definitely not a pre-requisite though. Many...

Good teams increase the probability of a start-up success. The start-up team includes its co-founders, employees, investors and board...

Arguably, time is the most important commodity in a start-up, and not Funds. You cannot raise more time. As an entrepreneur, you will...

Adults are typically biased and afraid of more things than they need to be. Entrepreneurs can draw a lot of inspiration from the behavior...

It’s paramount for entrepreneurs to know and understand their customers. The customer relationship can help grow business as well as...

I have met several aspiring entrepreneurs who feel very possessive about their idea. They want to get feedback, business advice, opinion...

Financial Services play an important role in the countries’ and their economies’ functioning. Following the credit crisis (2008), and its...

Electronic trading in the last decade has laid the foundation for increased use of technology in the financial markets. If a trader’s...

In finance, trade is typically an exchange of a financial security (share, bond, etc.) with cash. (To understand more around how...

Trading process has evolved over time. An individual or an institution needs to trade through a broker who is a member of the exchange....

Financial exchanges are the market places where buyers and sellers of financial securities trade (buy and sell). The exchanges have...

Every start-up has some objectives. Success, though subjective, is one of the core reasons why many start-ups come into existence. While...

The business plan in a start-up evolves very frequently. Mostly the market, customers, product requirements would move in an ever...

A start-up’s success is mostly directly linked to the combined performance of its team. Hiring a good team is important, but how they...

If you have worked in larger organizations for some time, you would realize how much political it gets and how your growth gets limited...

Challenges of running a start-up in India: India ranks around 130th in the world bank rankings of world bank’s ease of doing business...