News for the week of 6th to 12th February, 2017

The Big Story For Entrepreneurs This Week

IEFDutch ‘energy entrepreneurs’ help villages harness solar power Three Dutch ‘energy entrepreneurs’ have created 100 women entrepreneurs in about 50 villages across Bankey Bazaar in Gaya, Bihar, thereby empowering 1,500 households. Founded in 2011, the startup has built clean and sustainable energy solutions to allow villagers to generate and share energy in a simple yet effective way through “smart grids for rural India” and light up powerless villages of the country. Click here to read more >

National News

11th India Digital Summit organised by IAMAI Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) organised the 11th India Digital Summit on 8th & 9th February at The Lalit, New Delhi. The panelists participated in the ‘Startup Session’  where the of the discussion was ‘What are angels looking for?’  Click here to read more >

Bharat Entrepreneurs Network (BEN) launched for underprivileged Indian Entrepreneurs Aimed at providing guidance and mentoring to empower entrepreneurship at the SME level and help entrepreneurs conduct their business better, the Bharat Entrepreneurs Network (BEN) hopes to use entrepreneurship to rebuild Bharat. Click here to read more >

States In The News

Gujarat

Ahmedabad to have India’s First ‘Translational Lab’, funded by NSDC | Gujarat-based techno-social business incubator, Aashray will be setting up the country’s first translational laboratory near Adalaj, Ahmedabad. The laboratory will have Rs 25 crore funding from National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). In the second phase, translational labs will be set up in Chennai and Warangal followed and in Bhubaneshwar and Indore during the third phase. Read more here >

Assam

Local entrepreneur wins a National Award for his food startup  | Known as the youngest entrepreneur from Northeast India, Hironmoy Gogoi from Sivasagar, Assam has recently won a National Award in the ‘Home Grown Business of the Year’ category for his venture called ‘Gaon ka Khana’.

Other Interesting Reads

Investors don entrepreneurship mantle

This piece documents how VCs who develop a great sense for identifying new opportunities, often get the itch to build ventures themselves.
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Budget 2017: What it means for the Indian entrepreneur

Analysing the budget from the startup sector’s standpoint, this piece suggests that the focus areas as defined by Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley for Budget 2017- transform, energize and clean – hold a lot of hope for what’s yet to come.
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7 Hard truths about being a young entrepreneur

From being the ‘Youngest in Charge’ to having little work life balance, this writer does not mince words while talking about becoming an entrepreneur at a young age.
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Go where no one has gone before

This interesting piece suggests that the more inspired and motivated young people are, the more they will feel a need to explore, create and innovate.
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