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Key Ingredients for A Startup’s Success

To get the ball rolling for a startup is one thing but to survive the competition and yield success is altogether a different story. Out in the real world, there is no perfect recipe to cooking success. No matter how great your idea, service or product is; it stands a chance of utter failure or a colossal success. There are a bunch of factors, both internal and external in a business environment that can make or break the deal. Here are few basic key points that are quite essential to…

5-step Guide to Create an Unbiased Workplace for Women

Combining the PoSH Act with a company’s framework and rules for abidance is only half of the work done to produce a more protected workplace for females. Taking actions to ensure and implement women’s safety in the workplace is the real and constructive solution. Furnishing infrastructural amenities such as upgraded surveillance for security, female cab drivers, late-night shuttle service, are some developments coming up in the work culture. Yet, changing mindsets is the fundamental solution. Few concrete steps for creating a more protected environment are as follows:  1. Generate and…

A Plan for Profit

Every business, small and big, should have a profit plan in order to drive the business towards success. Such a plan is even more crucial for new small businesses because it will help them stay on track and not fail midway. When you plan for profit, it helps you understand the various factors that contribute to your success. It will be a kind of summarized income statement in written, which will serve as your profit and sales objective, and as your business budget. Your profit plan can be used to…

Everyone a Changemaker – An Accelerator Program by Surge Impact

For Surge Impact, social entrepreneurship is a key focus and they strongly believe that it will be a catalyst for social change, and helps startups and entrepreneurs build a better nation. Excerpts from an interview with Small Enterprise India. 1. Tell us something about your business model which is quite unique due to its diverse nature. What inspired you to launch this company? Our mission is to enable and empower social entrepreneurs as problem solvers in the areas covered by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). We want to help grow…

5 Motivating Factors of Increasing Women Entrepreneurs in India

In this age in India, we can proclaim proudly that women entrepreneurs in our country is not an uncertain phenomenon. While Indra Nooyi, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, and the likes paved path for women to step forward and conformed their spots in the boardrooms, a couple of decades ago, women in our country have adopted entrepreneurship in small and medium scale from ancient times though most of it began with a compulsion to manage their families and homes. Women Empowerment The contemporary Indian woman is no more in a want-based environment…

Why we Celebrate International Women’s Day? Their Empowerment and Leadership!

Women’s Day is a worldwide celebration of women around the world. This is a global occasion decided by the UN and is celebrated every year on 8th March. Although, it’s celebrated more wholeheartedly in different countries due to many technological, cultural, as well as sexist reasons, it is quite a crucial part of the feminist as well as women’s rights movement and it has a long history behind it. International Women’s Day The occasion came into action ‘officially’ in the year 1911. Both men and women in countries like Germany,…

Why Family Business Succession Planning is Important

Most family-owned business owners put off their succession planning because they don’t want to think about their retirement, disability or death, however, business succession planning should be a priority in every family owned business. A family owned business owner’s decision to eventually retire is not as simple as no longer going to the office. Key questions need to be answered before the family owned business owner can “leave” the business: i) will he or she have enough money at retirement; ii) who is going to own and manage the business;…

6 Ways Browser Isolation can Protect Small Business against Cyber Threats

The internet has now become an inseparable part of every people and business. But every time a person (employee in general) opens any web browser, they potentially expose their organization to unknown threats and different types of malware, ranging from phishing threats to ransomware to Trojans and much more. It is, therefore, necessary for every organization to deploy a robust and stringent security system to combat such threats. This is where Browser Isolation comes into play. It plays a crucial role, as with it you can separate your web browsing…