Should a start-up company, usually not cash-rich, always struggle for its operations, marketing etc. or is it possible to do everything in low or almost no budget? Can automation make things feasible or do we always need expert staff? Can we do most things ourselves or should we outsource things.



When I launched my company, all I had was some confidence and enthusiasm. No cash. (don't have it even now). But over the time, I did manage to Automate a lot of stuff…

Businesses of all sizes need to have dogged focus on revenue generation and business growth. They also need to perform certain non-revenue generating activities, like recruitment. If non-revenue generating activities are not performed well, business growth can be hampered in the long run. Hence, resources available to businesses have to be judicially divided between revenue generating and non-revenue generating activities. It is a thin line. SME's in particular struggle to manage both,…

I am a Company Secretary & MBA(Finance) with 7 years of enriched exp. across industries.

Looking to start-up a Corporate advisory firm in Pune offering a gamut of services like formation of a new Co., FDI Investments in India by foreign entities, statutory & secretarial compliances, financial valuations, open-offer, buyback, restructurings,  due diligence, IPO advisory, Financial Statement Analysis.

Would invite co-partners/ workers for…

Hello friends,

Now days there is tremendous competition in local market, which indirectly reduce the profits ultimately stop you to grow.

This may be applying to the startups and up to ten employee companies.

They may not in condition to hire sales team or not get good team. This is barrier to their capabilities.

Here I am proposing an idea to get this problem sorted out.

Steps:

• Form a group of companies or freelancers
  • Find out…

The Saturday of July 9 2011 was host to two of the biggest product start-up events in India - Proto.in and Unpluggd. YourNextLeap, which is a Pune based start-up was fortunate to be selected to demo at both! Here are some learnings from the unique experience that the nextLeap team would love to share with fellow start-ups.

The…

From a humble beginning to setting up his brand that has its presence felt across 45 countries, Mr. Mane, the man behind Mane Group of Electricals has come a long way.  Read brief on Mr.Mane’s journey and his one to one interview on smestory.com

His Early Days

Born in Lodahwade in Satara district, Mr. Ramdas Mane worked with his family on the fields as a small boy.  It was the early seventies, when…

Hi Everyone

I run my own Video Production Company, "SMS Productions'.

Do connect if you need to make a Corporate Film or any sort of Visual Content. Also drop a line if you have any content writing requirement.

Regards

Suparna Gangal

SMS Productions

Six Steps featured on yourstory.in (CNBC TV 18 YOUNG TURKS)

Six Steps was recently featured on the yourstory.in CNBC TV 18 Young Turks, we thank all for your continuing support and would like to take this opportunity to request all to kindly connect us to sales, marketing managers or business owners of equipment manufacturing or product manufacturing firms. Our services will change the way they manage their servicing and marketing with high cost savings and higher…

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I am working on  portal for student and people searching for jobs.

searching for the investors to establish the portal and get idea into reality.

If there is any one interested out their... please contact me.

thanks and regards

Shrikant Gayakwad

Contact No. 09890743723…

POCC at a Glance - 23rd May, 2011

Upcoming Events

* May 24th: Startup Lessons Learned

* May 28th: "Rumble" with Arvind Gupta

Pune OpenCoffee Club at a Glance - April 19th

Exclusive - Startup In Focus:

The startup in focus this week is Pineapple Innovative Solutions – a venture that takes care of the IT and…

Lets contribute by sharing your favorite but lesser known 3rd party libraries that no project should be without.

This is my feedback - http://wp.me/pPJh0-87

Some least heard but important such libraries which we have used in past are:

Unit Testing: DBUnit, Mockito, Hamcrest Matchers

Apache Common: Commons Configurations, Commons DbUtils, Commons IO, Commons Lang

Other: SLF4J, Google Collections, c3p0,…

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First thing that comes to mind after one has decided to start a business venture is “What form of a legal entity should I create?”. It is important to think this through thoroughly at the beginning since once the start-up is set up, it is very difficult; not to mention expensive and time-consuming, to go back and change its legal form. Determining the right legal structure for your startup can save both money and hassle. Structuring errors may cause businesses to fail.…

Hello Everyone,

I would like to share my latest project with the members of this group.

The Indian Education Megaproject is a project that will build 30,000 New Schools across 28 States and 7 Union Territories in India by 2023. This project which is currently with the Planning Commission and National Knowledge Commission is designed to provide high quality education, totally free of cost to 126 Million Children. The Project has a Unique…

I have been thinking of getting a franchise of McDonalds. Then I learned, McDonalds south west region does not franchise. I again surfed whether any good brand for franchising. Soon I realised that franchising cost more than a new venture. And I dont have enough money for that.

I am glad that I did not have enough money. Had I got enough money, I would have become another sheep in the herd. Though, I am no different now. But I would have lost my identity and would have been…