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How adversity turned Josephine Selvaraj into an entrepreneur

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| 13 hours ago

Besides her original name, Josephine Selvaraj is known by quite a few nicknames, and of the lot ‘Queen Bee’ is the one even she is proud to flaunt. Josephine Selvaraj is both an entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur. Unlike the many high profile women entrepreneurs we have written about in the past, Josephine turned entrepreneur to fulfill the most basic need that many Indian families still struggle for – three square meals a day. “We were a family of five me, my husband and three children. My husband earned Rs 2000 per month and things were difficult when you have children going to school and a family to support,” explains Josephine. She has a degree in history and at some point she also toyed with the thought of being a teacher. But a three-day course in bee-keeping at Krishi Vigyan Kendra(KVK) at Madurai changed her life forever.

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Knowlarity COO Pallav Pandey quits, And the bigger logic behind co-founders splitting

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| 15 hours ago

Knowlarity is a Gurgaon based cloud telephony company that is backed by Sequoia Capital and has scaled rapidly over the past couple of years. The company was founded in 2009 by IIT Kanpur batch-mates Ambarish Gupta and Pallav Pandey and is currently a 250+ member company. In a recent development, Pallav Pandey has quit Knowlarity and will be moving on to other things while he still remains on board of the company.

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200 million children in India can’t read, do your bit through the Mango T20 Campaign

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| 17 hours ago

There are stories to be heard , books to be read, a whole new world to be explored; hidden behind those pages. Mangosense is a Pune based startup that is trying to get people to read books to underprivileged kids through their campaign MangoT20. Mango T20 stands for “Mango Teach 20”. Starting June 1st, for a period of 50 days , you can read books to underprivileged kids in your neighbourhood. You could spare one hour per day, or do it on weekends visiting a local NGO and reading to them. A relatively small step for you has the potential of bringing tons of brightness into the lives of these young children. Read to 20 kids for 20 hours and you could become a Champion. Apart from the social impact you would create, champions will also be rewarded with a few goodies.

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Jiyo India, a food chain that makes its customers workout for extra cheese!

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| 18 hours ago

Jiyo India is a food brand selling healthy snacks like sandwiches, salads, soups, shakes, organic juices by setting up counters at corporate cafeterias, in a format very similar to the concept of QSR (Quick Service Restaurant). Jiyo India was started by an IT engineer turned entrepreneur, Pankaj Judge. But unlike his counterparts from the field of IT, Pankaj decided to transform his interest into a business, rather than venture into software development.

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Pramati Enters the PaaS Market with CloudJee

| 1 day ago

Pramati was recently in news for acquiring WaveMaker from VMware. WaveMaker is a Java IDE for designing business applications and websites. It was clear that Pramati wanted to leverage the investments made in the application server with WaveMaker to come out with a new offering. CloudJee is the latest offering from Pramati’s stable.

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Agri-logistics in India: Challenges and Emerging Solutions

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| 1 day ago

The issue of food wastage is central to India’s efforts in combating hunger and improving food security. While focus has been on improving production, reducing food supply chain losses remains a relatively uuaddressed problem till very recently. It is hard to put a figure to how much food is lost and wasted in India today [...] Read More

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An entrepreneur is one who follows her passion. Like Ishween Anand did to startup Nyassa

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| 1 day ago

Nyassa’s founder and owner Ishween Anand, a qualified C.A. and MBA from Stern School of Business, New York, left her job at E&Y, USA to pursue her passion for fragrances and started Nyassa in April 2007. Ishween found the number crunching, long hours of work and unending travel to have no meaning after a point in time. While she continued the routine work, every weekend she would look forward to her weekly escape to the farmers market, where she could see the large variety of natural bath and beauty products being sold. Her love for fragrances also made her take up a course in making natural soaps. “It was very hard to find someone who could teach soap-making, because this process is mostly restricted to factories and manufacturing units,” explains Ishween. But after four years of searching, she finally found a lady who taught her the art.