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5 Small Town Entrepreneurs To Inspire You To Start Your Own Business
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5 Small Town Entrepreneurs To Inspire You To Start Your Own Business

Even amid the pandemic, Escores of new businesses are being created, not only within the big metro cities, but also emerging from smaller cities and towns. E- commerce technology and platforms like Shopify are helping Indian entrepreneurs survive and thrive on limited resources and budgets.

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September 2020
Gender Inequality Let Woman Come Out Of Her Comfort Zone
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Gender Inequality Let Woman Come Out Of Her Comfort Zone

There has always been a lot of discussion on gender inequality in India and across the world.

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3 mins  |
September 2020
Lockdown Afforded Us Opportunity to Enhance Knowledge and Capabilities: Essentia Environments
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Lockdown Afforded Us Opportunity to Enhance Knowledge and Capabilities: Essentia Environments

Never let a good Ncrisis goes to waste' so said Winston Churchill. Apparently. Whether he actually said it or not there is still something about the phrase that resonates with all of us at Essentia. It spurred us to action instead of passively accepting the consequences of events beyond our control.

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4 mins  |
September 2020
What needs to be changed?
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What needs to be changed?

Higher education in India

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5 mins  |
September 2020
What Does The Future Hold For The Poultry Sector?
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What Does The Future Hold For The Poultry Sector?

India is gradually experiencing an increase in urbanization and increasingly disposable incomes. Reflecting the drift to an increasingly urban lifestyle, the 10 major cities in the country account for over 60 percent of all poultry meat consumption. There has also been a gradual shift in eating habits, with the well-informed younger generation increasingly adopting non-vegetarian diets.

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3 mins  |
September 2020
Clean-Cut Score of FMCG & Pharmaceutical Sectors
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Clean-Cut Score of FMCG & Pharmaceutical Sectors

Beating the Pandemic Blues

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8 mins  |
September 2020
Strategies To Help Entrepreneurs For The Next Level
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Strategies To Help Entrepreneurs For The Next Level

One of the leading crowdfunding platforms, Catapooolt, helps entrepreneurs at different stages of their journey by bringing other entrepreneurs help them by backing them to achieve the next milestone, this makes it a very conducive environment for the whole ecosystem helping each other grow by the strength of getting enough capital through crowdfunding and validation of their ideas.

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September 2020
Mediocre Or Excellent. What Will You Be?
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Mediocre Or Excellent. What Will You Be?

There are probably many definitions of the word Tmediocre or mediocrity but my definition is “thinking and believing that I am doing the best I can.”

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5 mins  |
September 2020
HOW ORGANIZATIONS CAN ACE VIRTUAL TALENT ACQUISITION PROCESS
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HOW ORGANIZATIONS CAN ACE VIRTUAL TALENT ACQUISITION PROCESS

An important question that has arisen in the current times is how do you build a strong remote team? Coordinating with your team which is spread across many time zones, ensuring every task gets completed in time, and catching communication breakdowns before they deteriorate are crucial. However, the reality is that remote work is a huge driver for competitive advantage and it is gaining popularity among businesses of all sizes and industries.

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3 mins  |
September 2020
Making Our Communities 'Anti-Fragile' Using Al
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Making Our Communities 'Anti-Fragile' Using Al

The world has seen Ta series of unfortunate events in recent years. Most of the natural disasters dawn upon mankind in an unprecedented tone. It becomes awfully difficult to come in terms of the damage that these natural disasters do to human lives and resources. The country is already fighting a survival-battle against COVID-19 and lamented events like Cyclone Amphan and Cyclone Nisarga doomed upon us.

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3 mins  |
August 2020
Mental Health Of Healthcare Workers Battling Pandemic Needs Critical Care
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Mental Health Of Healthcare Workers Battling Pandemic Needs Critical Care

The importance of healthcare professionals has increased manifold as it is the healthcare professionals who are at the forefront of the battle humanity is waging against coronavirus throughout the world. Coronavirus has affected 208 countries and territories in the world with over 1, 284,805 cases and 70,328 deaths. It has also infected thousands of healthcare workers across the world and in some cases their families as well.

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August 2020
Launched by Servotec: Digital Sanitizer on Your Smart Phone
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Launched by Servotec: Digital Sanitizer on Your Smart Phone

The outbreak of novel Corona Virus has entirely changed the way humans used to live. Five months back nobody would have even dreamt of seeing human beings wearing masks, face shields and carrying sanitizers with them but now these things have become an essential part of a man's life. Our lives have a new normal as we begin live with the pandemic.

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3 mins  |
August 2020
How to Conduct Video Meetings Effectively
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How to Conduct Video Meetings Effectively

It's been over three months now that your remote team has been established, you have your video conferencing platform in place and you're doing video meetings daily. But well, one cannot deny the fact that there are a few glitches here and there.

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August 2020
MSMEs Crucial to India's Goal of Becoming USD 5T Economy: Dr. Vivek Bindra
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MSMEs Crucial to India's Goal of Becoming USD 5T Economy: Dr. Vivek Bindra

He is a man with different hues. He is spreading the light of knowledge to dispel the darkness of ignorance. He is filling the vacuum of the wanting society. He is a teacher, a guide, a philosopher, a sensitive professional. He is Dr Vivek Bindra, the man with a mission. An influential motivational speaker, a business coach par excellence, an expert on MSME businesses and a man with a vision to make management education affordable and accessible to all, Dr Vivek Bindra is the Founder & CEO of one of the fastest growing EdTech startups Bada Business. He is honoured with Doctorates from Royal American University, Boston in 2019 and Open International University for Complementary Medicines, Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2017.

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8 mins  |
August 2020
Empowering Women Critical to Achieving Goal of Atmanirbhar Bharat
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Empowering Women Critical to Achieving Goal of Atmanirbhar Bharat

As the world grapples Awith Corona with a scramble for suitable drugs, devices, protective equipment and not least discovering a vaccine, India has turned this necessity into a virtue. The government's unveiling of a stimulus package is a step towards attaining self-reliance while battling the pandemic. However, unless women, constituting about half of us are made an integral part of this self-reliance script, Atmanirbhar Bharat will remain a pipe dream. A report has estimated that addressing gender inequality could add 18% to India's GDP. Unfair deal for the fair sex

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5 mins  |
August 2020
Electric Vehicles Market: Change in Consumer Behaviour
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Electric Vehicles Market: Change in Consumer Behaviour

The entire world is facing and battling the worst pandemic crisis ever seen along with the global economy facing massive downtime. Countries around the globe have posed severe stringent restrictions ranging from days to months of lockdown periods. Due to this pandemic, many businesses are halted and some have never seen before downtime and some are waiting for the market conditions to improve. However, there are several sectors of the industry that are still shining out and even using this period as an opportunity for the development of their business. The Electric Vehicles Industry is one of those industries that they even expect even better growth post-Covid-19.

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August 2020
Challenge of Social Media Forced PR Industry to Reinvent: Nikky Gupta
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Challenge of Social Media Forced PR Industry to Reinvent: Nikky Gupta

The rise and Twidespread use of social media round the globe has worked to undermine the role of Public Relations Enterprises (PREs) to a great measure. One would notice even corporate to take to social media channels to publicize their products and services and economize their publicity sizably. “I would not call it a threat but definitely it is a challenge that has forced the PR industry to reinvent its own ways of working,” says Nikky Gupta, Co-founder and Director Teamwork Communications Group.

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6 mins  |
August 2020
Set the stage on Fire. Talk to anyone, everyone. Public Speaking at Its best.
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Set the stage on Fire. Talk to anyone, everyone. Public Speaking at Its best.

While captivating an audience is a skill, yet it takes years of deigned, focussed, continuum approach to make it happen. Let's get clear it's not a rocket science or fusion, is not complicated, cumbersome, complex – in fact it's easy, simple, has logical sequencing and above all, it's fun- pure distilled fun. Instead of creating, believing that it's a deep chasm, that only a few can cross over, lets initiate the following steps and observe how it dissipates totally

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7 mins  |
August 2020
Comvision (India): India's First Woman-Run Enterprise in Intelligent Traffic Management
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Comvision (India): India's First Woman-Run Enterprise in Intelligent Traffic Management

Covid has taught us to be contactless. Here is how Comvision (India) Pvt. Ltd., the only woman-owned enterprise in intelligent traffic/transport arena in India, grabbed the opportunity in the trying times, both for humanity as well as for enabling Digital India. Comvision has already been in the space of Fastag-based e-toll solutions and their solutions are running at many toll plazas on National Highways across India. It remains one of the few NPCI certified companies for issuer as well as acquirer services of Fastag in India.

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8 mins  |
August 2020
A New REALITY : The Real Estate Sector Post COVID 19
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A New REALITY : The Real Estate Sector Post COVID 19

COVID-19 has impacted all of us in many ways, bringing about a change in our lifestyle, values and beliefs significantly. Given that our collective memory is short, as evidenced by past events, COVID is still going to have a much longer lasting impact on us. And some of this will become permanent part of our conscious, the 'new normal'.

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July 2020
True Education- A stimulus to Life and Higher Values
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True Education- A stimulus to Life and Higher Values

"Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"- T. S. Eliot

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July 2020
Scourge of Covid-19 Building Immunity is the Cure
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Scourge of Covid-19 Building Immunity is the Cure

Coronavirus is a global pandemic and especially in India, the cases have been spiking which is making the people go haywire in panic. It is very essential to maintain hygiene standards like washing your hands frequently, wearing a mask (cover your nose and mouth) and avoiding touching your hand or mouth. It is a priority for us to keep our immune system strong,while staying home. At the same time it isimportant to maintain our stamina as well as physicalwell-being in the current situation.

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5 mins  |
July 2020
LiqHub: Paving the Path of Responsible Drinking
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LiqHub: Paving the Path of Responsible Drinking

Indian culture always has a complicated history with drinking.

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6 mins  |
July 2020
MSMEs Face Existential Crisis, Revenue to Fall a Fifth
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MSMEs Face Existential Crisis, Revenue to Fall a Fifth

The 5% contraction Tin the Indian economy expected by CRISIL this fiscal – wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic – will significantly hurt micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) across sectors.

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July 2020
Home to 16 percent of World's Population India has only 4% of World's Water Resources
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Home to 16 percent of World's Population India has only 4% of World's Water Resources

India 5th most vulnerable among 181 countries to face the imapct of water & climate change

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July 2020
Helping MSMEs Mitigate the Challenges of Zinc Die-Casting Industry
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Helping MSMEs Mitigate the Challenges of Zinc Die-Casting Industry

Globally, 18% of zinc produced gets absorbed for zinc die casting — a popular manufacturing process used in automobile, bathroom and sanitary ware segment. However, only 8% of the zinc gets consumed for die-casting in India which is far below the world average. While there have been small enterprises and MSMEs exporting zinc and related raw material to global markets, the quantity and quality is far behind global requirements.

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July 2020
Growing SMEs Sector Most Vulnerable to Cyber Breaches
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Growing SMEs Sector Most Vulnerable to Cyber Breaches

BD Software BDistribution Pvt. Ltd. is one of the leading IT security distributors offering industry-leading consumer and enterprise-level solutions in the Indian market.

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July 2020
Family-run Mark Medicals Symbolises Rare Entrepreneurial Professionalism
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Family-run Mark Medicals Symbolises Rare Entrepreneurial Professionalism

Mak Medicals Pvt. Ltd. is a family-run company manufacturing pre-injection alcohol swabs - Mak Swab since 1998 with CE and ISO 13485 certification and is licensed by CDSCO.

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July 2020
Challenge of Micro Business in Payment Collection and their Solution
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Challenge of Micro Business in Payment Collection and their Solution

Payment collection is a crucial function and plays a significant role in maintaining a company's financial health, be it large corporates or small businesses like cable operators, newspaper vendors, f ms and fitness centers, etc.

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July 2020
How Al Can Help Enterprises To Restart Operations
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How Al Can Help Enterprises To Restart Operations

Enterprises need to derive a strategy to restart operations with a no-compromise stance on employee safety while being profitable. The scale, scope and the remedial steps for this unprecedented crisis are difficult to fathom for the human mind. This is where technology steps in. Al can see patterns in seemingly unrelated data from across the world and help people derive industry specific solutions.

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4 mins  |
June 2020