- 5 Reasons Why Graduates Should Consider Sales As A Career Life after college can be a tortuous ride. Zeroing in on a career with proper growth prospects and which aligns with your skill sets is a tough decision to make. Normally college students take myopic decisions without considerable thoughts and end up with a career that doesn’t suit their personality at all. College students pass […]
- Rajan Anandan Backs US Based Edtech Startup Stoodnt Palo Alto-based edtech startup Stoodnt has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Rajan Anandan, Vice-President, Google, Southeast Asia and India. “The college admission market is highly fragmented, low-tech and fraught with fraud, biased advice and quality issues in international markets. The focus of our platform is to provide insights, online help and college admission […]
- 5 Must Have Recruiting Strategies For Campus Hiring The competition to hire the top talents has never been this intense. The new level this has hit in the past few years has been overwhelming. Every company, be it a startup or fortune 500 believe in hiring the top talents and not to compromise on the skill set. Long gone are the days of […]
- Bangalore-based ‘Buddy’ raises $500K From Blume Ventures, Tracxn Labs and Others Bangalore-based student micro-lending startup, Buddy, has raised $500K from Blume Ventures, TracxnLabs and other angel investors in its Pre Series-A funding round. Buddy provides short-term and long-term payment plans to college students enabling them to buy ecommerce products like mobile phones, laptops, cosmetics and footwear among others. The product price ranges from INR 1,000 to […]
- X- SEED – XIMB ABOUT XSEED X-Seed, the Idea and Initiative Cell of XIMB, inspires individuals not to be good managers but be great leaders. Entrepreneurship is ‘an individual’s ability to turn Ideas into Action’. The world is growing and every day a new idea or technology becomes obsolete. To cope up with this change, new and innovative ideas are […]
- 10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Learn In College I’ve written before on 10 reasons Parents Should Not Send Their Kids to College and here is also Eight Alternatives to College but it’s occurred to me that the place where college has really hurt me the most was when it came to the real world, real life, how to make money, how to build a […]
- Google Announces A Preview Of Classroom, A New Free tool In The Google Apps For Education Suite Interaction is probably the most important element between a teacher and a student. Given the fact that our lives are revolving around technology and with the rise of e learning technologies there is a high need for a better collaboration tool for teachers as well as students. Teachers spend a ton of valuable time doing […]
- 19 Insanely Successful College Dropouts Prove You Don’t Need A Degree As the school year starts up again, the class of 2017 is heading off to college for the first time, and a whole crop of high-school seniors is beginning to consider where they’ll go next year – or whether they should go at all. Some, like PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel, claim that college just isn’t […]
- LinkedIn Launches University Pages LinkedIn, yesterday, announced it’s latest new feature to it’s networking platform – Linkedin University Pages – a cornerstone of LinkedIn’s strategy to help students at every critical milestone from campus to fulfilling and towards successful careers. While i think this was a long time pending feature and a likely addition to LinkedIn’s current offering. As per […]
- Lessons and advice from Starting up young – A year with FlixStreet A year back I was enjoying my summers before starting off on the last stretch of my IIT experience. This is when I got a knock on my door to come on-board on a startup idea on Indian movies! It was June 22, 2012, exactly today, one year back. It has been a year since I […]
- 15 Successful Entrepreneurs Who Didn’t Need College How many times were you told to make sure you worked hard in high school so you could go to college and get a good career job? Okay, maybe not all of you got nagged about it, but probably a good portion of today’s generation of adults did. It’s natural to wonder whether college is really […]
- Dropping out is IN! A friend of mine recently graduated from an American College, and was very happy that he got a job in one of the best companies in the world. Ecstatic, he “inboxed” me on FB, “After putting in all these years of education I can finally earn a buck load of money.” It made me wonder, […]