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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My expertise in product development and project management came after working as a consultant in many industries. India has been known for 1000’s of years for health and beauty routines /ideas like Ayurveda/Yoga, which have derived inspiration from Nature. 10- Be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global.

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Does Your Culture Reward The Lazy Brain? Five Ways to Override This Natural Human Tendency.

YoungUpstarts

About eight years ago, after becoming concerned that it was losing its edge, Intuit proactively created a new culture and installed new processes, all designed to create an idea meritocracy. One of its primary goals was to galvanize product development by discovering often-unstated customer needs and creating solutions for them.

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TIME.com Redesign: a Responsive Global News Site | TIME.com

techland.time.com

The same great award-winning news coverage, commentary, photography and video are all still here, but they’re presented in a fresh, streamlined design, making everything easier to find and enjoy, whether you’re accessing the site from a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone. The launch of this new design has many facets.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India. In addition to entrepreneurship, she has a background in chemical engineering, supply chain management, biomedical engineering research, microbiology research, and new product development for U.S. and Indian companies.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). Finally, prepare for a “system of systems” approach in ICT design.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

I had it all set up to a jury-rigged SurveyMonkey - PayPal minimum viable product. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Yet it had one huge advantage.

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

million daily active users, expand into India as a second home market and launch the second generation of our Halo Sensor that has significantly more sophisticated sensing capabilities. the creation of new products. We’ll triple our user base in 2018, which is currently around 1.5