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7 Ways to Scale Your StartUp

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1. Before you even think to scale your startup, you should have your fundamentals noted down and rock solid.  Every business has it's own market and landscape to grow. It is very essential that before jumping to a market and launching new products into it, one must understand that market must be in reception mode when you tend to play with it. 2. This one is the golden rule and my favourite. If you will spend more time in automating things, you will run longer and scaling the business is easy. You'll be able to access data faster, hire faster, market better, pay easier, and streamline operations for a truly scalable model. Even though it takes a long time on the front end, this activity will pay for itself in the long term. 3. How a business will scale if no one knows about it? Focus on marketing, and scalability will follow. But not every form of marketing is scalable. According to Forbes "direct marketing is...not scalable" and &quo

Resolved: Confusion over Due Diligence!

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What is Due Diligence? Due diligence is an investigation or audit of a potential investment or product. To confirm all facts, such as reviewing all financial records, projections, plus anything else deemed material. It refers to the care a reasonable person should take before entering into an agreement or a financial transaction with another party. _________________________________________________________________________________ What are types of Due Diligence? _________________________________________________________________________________ Who require Due Diligence? Have you got your Due-Diligence done? _____

Why incorporation of Indian Start-ups was down by 29% YoY in 2017 and how to avoid this in 2018?

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I t is evident that India has experienced a boom in industry of start-ups from last half decade. More and more young entrepreneurs came up with a brilliant and rare idea to solve social problems. India is second in world to deliver Unicorn start-ups. However year 2017 saw some major changes in numbers published by Nasscom. As per Nasscom Start-up Report 2017, Indian start-up industry saw a downfall of 29% YoY in 2017. This dent is majorly due to shift of focus to quality. If we want to drill down the cause for this downfall in numbers of start-ups, we must first identify the challenges faced by start-ups currently working in India.  According to mentors, venture capitalists and founders of various start-ups below are the 6 key factors influencing the failure or success rate of start-ups in India. 1. Imperative Team: ‘Your biggest challenge will be building a great team’ – John Doerr. Every start-up need an efficient, hardworking and creative