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A startup is a business venture which is a newly emerged business model that aims at meeting market needs by offering innovative services, products or a process. A startup may be technology oriented and has growth potential. The startup culture is becoming rapidly popular in many parts of the world including India and more youngsters now prefer to be their own boss. But it is a proven fact that 9 out of 10 startups fail within 3 years of initiation which is as high as 80% of the total startups. You will come across stories of success and achievements of many companies but very few will come forward with their reasons of failure. But it is only through failures that one can learn the best. There are multiple reasons for the failure of tech startups today.  1. The Team is not Right One reason for the failure of startups today is the lack of a diversified team or having on board people who have little or no interest in their business model. It is important to have...

A high paying job with a lucrative salary package is every person’s dream, but most of the people fail to grab a high salary job in the initial days of their career. While many people consider their starting jobs as the stepping stone in their professional career, there are some people who feel disappointed due to a low-wage job. However, what most of us don’t realize is that the bad phases in life are meant to teach us some of the best lessons in life. You can learn a lot of things from a low-wage job, which will prove useful later in your professional career and personal life. Here are the top 5 lessons which you can learn from a low-wage job. 1. You Stop Taking Things for Granted During our school and college days, we don’t realize the worth of money and keep on spending our pocket money on anything we want. But once it comes to spending our hard-earned money, we start realizing the value of a plethora of things in our life. Most people comprehend what’s important...

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Every company has a board of directors — but few founders and entrepreneurs give the matter of board composition much thought. Samer has been on five startup boards and has founded and served on the boards of two of his own companies; Adam is a corporate partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a technology and startup law firm. We’d like to offer some advice to founders and CEOs seeking to learn more about their boards, as well as to people who have been invited to sit on a board. The basics Do I have to have a board of directors? Read Full Article

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Artificial Intelligence and Chat Bots are considered to be the next big thing. These two technologies are supposed to provide support or sometimes control everything around us, be it cars, lights, TVs, mobile apps, services, and other electronic devices. And we are not talking about distant future, it's already happening around us. Big names like Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. are implementing them in their new products, for instance- the latest Google Pixel handsets are backed by AI tool Google Assistant, Apple Siri is already quite popular and Facebook is also using chat bots in its Messenger app. The day is not far when everyone will have a personal bot  offering its services to manage their entire digital life and make things much easier for them. Having said that, there's a great demand for young minds who can think out of the box and create bots to execute digital tasks seamlessly. This is where Gupshup, a cross-channel botplatform offers its service...

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An American researcher is working on four projects that will help develop a better, smarter power grid. They're looking for ways to modernize the distribution system that brings power to our homes and offices. They're out to make a more reliable power grid for all of us. They want to build a smart grid. Read Full Story..

Combining a bit of movie magic and state of the art technology, a California start-up has unveiled a new type of robot packed with personality. Ben Gruber reports. Video provided by Reuters Read Full Story..

Electrical and computer engineers have developed a design for a functional nanoscale computing device. The concept involves a dense, three-dimensional circuit operating on an unconventional type of logic that could, theoretically, be packed into a block no bigger than 50 nanometers on any side. Read Full Story..

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You could soon watch 3D videos on your Android without any special glasses using the new displays developed by scientists. You could soon watch 3D videos on your smartphone without any special eyewear, thanks to scientists who have developed a way to make displays for small screen devices that offer both 2D and 3D imaging. For eyewear-free displays, the only action is behind the screen where the image’s pixels and optics are layered together to produce the stereoscopic effect. The two primary ways of producing these optically illusive effects are by using either an array of micro-lenses, called lenticular lenses, or an array of micro-filters, called parallax barriers, in front of the image to make its appearance depend on the angle at which it is being seen. read more..

Free-software community Mozilla on Tuesday announced the launch of its global "Equal Rating Innovation Challenge" “This challenge is designed to spur innovations for bringing the members of the next billion online,” said Katharina Borchert, Chief Innovation Officer, Mozilla, in a statement. According to the data from a 2014 McKinsey report, India comes under the “Medium-High” category of regions facing barriers for Internet adoption. Broadly, the challenges are due to lack of incentives and infrastructure as well as mixed demographics. “Connecting the unconnected is one of the greatest challenges of our time,” Borchert added.                                                 Click here for submission read for more info