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Steve Jobs : Secrets of Life and Entrepreneurship
Steve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur, a 60-minute film. This enlightening one hour program stars Steve Jobs from an exclusive 1994, unscripted interview where he gives advice to potential entrepreneurs. Jobs discusses risk, failure, his own experiences, and learning the value of creating your own environment. This program was filmed over a 20 year period (1992 — 2012) by the Silicon Valley Historical Association.
We hope more entrepreneurs in India will learn from this video and stretch their vision in life! PikAVenture is here to support young entrepreneurs of India!
PikAVenture india’s crowd-funding website on Yourstory.in
PikAVenture india’s crowd-funding website on Yourstory.in
Big Money in E-commerce start-ups in India by crowd-funding
PikAVenture Empowering Entrepreneurship and Innovation in India
E-commerce in India is slowly coming of age, offering hope to an increasing number of start-ups that are being unleashed upon the Indian consumer with a relentless pace. After the flop starts in 2001-2001, when there was a dot-com big bang followed by a bigger bust, many of the next round of e-commerce platforms that were set up in the middle of the first decade of this millennium have now grown strong roots and will soon start sprouting fruit.
Big money is being rolled out because profits have indeed begun to show up! In this environment, Subrata Mitra, partner at Accel (and on the board of top Indian e-commerce companies Flipkart and Myntra) feels that on the average companies may take up to five years to show profits – which is not a bad deal at all, given the fact that start-ups launched a few years ago took up to a decade (Amazon took 7 years) to reach the profitability level.
To encourage entrepreneurs, the government has set aside Rs 10,000 crore for start-ups interested in creation of apps for mobile phones, tablets and other electronic hardware. Venture Capital firms have also been investing steadily, with over 100 deals worth $363 million in India concluded during the first six months of this year. These deals included Russian VC firm ru-Net Holdings investing $9 million in Sequoia Capital-backed online apparel brand Freecultr and $8 million in online shoe retailer BeStylish. Other online services firms that raised funding recently include ethnic wear e-tailer Cbazaar.com and online taxi aggregator Olacabs.
E-commerce is a
lready setting strong footing in India with successes of makemytrip.com and flipkart.com, which are already attracting repeat customers and increasing sales revenues Their success has lead an early promise and enabling Indian e-commerce sector to proliferate by emergence of new players like Snapdeal.com (offering deals on branded products); Myntra.com (offers various popular brands, especially of clothing products);Jabong.com (web store with a vast collection of branded clothes and products; and, 99labels.com (which is an online shopping destination for brands related to jewellery, fragrances, apparel, accessories, home decor items and home appliances).
Overall, the mood is very positive in India now as the basics are slowly coming together, while Infrastructure matters like capital investment, payments, and logistics remain as matters of concern and therefore need some improvement. Pik A Venture identifies this as an opportunity and encourages innovative ideas and products that are interested in developing e-commerce suits and solutions for making online experience of customers a safer and an easy to use experience. Pik A Venture lays special focus on developing new, creative e-commerce offerings and is committed to make e-commerce a success in India. For entrepreneurs with a long term perspective this definitely is the time to seize the moment and step into ecommerce in the busy Indian online marketplace.
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