Which cricketers own restaurants, gyms or sports franchises? Virat Kohli (One8 Commune restaurants, a stake in FC Goa), MS Dhoni (SportsFit gyms, Chennaiyin FC), Sourav Ganguly (co-founder of the Kolkata football franchise Atletico de Kolkata), Zaheer Khan (ZK’s Dine Fine, ProSport Fitness) and Kumar Sangakkara (Ministry of Crab) lead the list. Jadeja, Kapil Dev, Raina […]
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Every few weeks another headline says AI is coming for your job. Fair enough. Some tasks are disappearing. But the jobs AI will create are the part nobody puts in the headline, and if you run a business, they’re where the opportunity sits. Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s CEO, made the point back in 2023: it’s easy […]
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The best Indian business books for aspiring entrepreneurs are Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, Connect the Dots, The High-Performance Entrepreneur, I Too Had a Dream and Business Sutra. Together they show how Indian founders started, hired, raised money and survived. The full list of 15 below is sorted by what you need to learn next. India […]
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India’s richest self-made women built their wealth from scratch, with no family empire behind them. This list ranks the top 10 by net worth using Hurun India data, and shows what each one built. Who Is the Richest Self-Made Woman in India? Radha Vembu, co-founder of Zoho, is India’s richest self-made woman. She tops Hurun […]
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What is the US green card suspension, and does it hurt Indian IT? The US has frozen PERM (Permanent Labor Certification) filings for several large employers, and analysts say Indian IT companies, including TCS, face limited near-term impact. These firms filed under 2% of PERM applications in the year to September 2025, and most have […]
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Founders who pivoted after failure include Stewart Butterfield (Glitch to Slack), Kevin Systrom (Burbn to Instagram), Evan Williams (Odeo to Twitter) and Tobi Lütke (Snowdevil to Shopify). Each dropped the original idea, kept the one thing users actually wanted, and built a company far bigger than the first attempt. Pivoting feels like losing. Mostly, it […]
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In the Mumbai vs Bengaluru startup funding race, Mumbai won 2024. Its funding jumped 154%, from $1.5 billion to $3.7 billion, which put it ahead of Bengaluru for the first time. Zepto’s mega-rounds and a surge in late-stage deals drove most of the jump. Bengaluru took the top spot back in 2025. What Happened in […]
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Most royal families in India earn money today through heritage hotels, palace tourism, museums, real estate, event hosting and, for some, politics. Their government allowances ended in 1971. The families that survived turned palaces into businesses. Here are the top 10 royal families in India and how each one makes its money. How Do Royal […]
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A celebrity’s name on a pitch deck gets a startup covered in every entertainment blog within a week. It doesn’t get the unit economics right. That gap – between headline buzz and boring operational discipline – is why so many Indian celebrity-backed ventures raise money, generate a flurry of press, and quietly disappear two or […]
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Every Shark Tank India season closes the same way: a wave of headlines about how many crores got committed on stage. What those headlines don’t tell you is how few of those deals actually turn into real businesses. Some brands take the cheque, get a nice bump in Instagram followers, and quietly fade by the […]
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