Budding entrepreneurs of IIT Kharagpur got a rare opportunity to interact with a venture capitalist in person at the leadership lecture by Mr. Jishnu Bhattacharjee, vice president, Nexus India Capital ( ECE, IIT khargpur, 2000) organized by the Entrepreneurship Cell ,IIT Kharagpur on the 5th of September , 2008.
“It feels great to be back at [...]
The internet landscape in India has been heating up over the last 4-5 years. While a lot of venture capital money has been chasing deals lately, there are very few quality startups in the horizon. Sectors like matrimony, travel and social networking have seen the emergence of a quite a few strong contenders but there [...]
An interview with Rachit Agarwal and Prabhash Choudhary, Team VIDA, who were runners up in Envision ’07 during Esummit. Envision is a product design and prototyping contest conducted by the Entrepreneurship Cell. TePP has approved an initial funding of Rs. 5 lacs for their product’s testing phase .
Excerpts from the interview:
TE: First of all, congratulations [...]
“Clean money for dirty air” - that’s the premise of an emerging trade in carbon credits. In simply words, it signifies the trade of polluting gases which is gaining increasing impetus in India with heightened emphasis being put on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the environment.
So what exactly is carbon credit? The concept of carbon [...]