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Raising Funds For New Start Ups

A look at some solutions available to get start ups rolling

30 June 2010

Coping With Best Practices In An Emerging Economy:The SME Viewpoint

SMEs in India need to focus on adopting best practices and appropriately tailoring them to their organisations

30 June 2010

Where to look for money

Areas that SMEs can look towards to access finance

30 June 2010

Proprietary or Open Source: The Eternal Dilemma

What should you keep in mind before you swing either way?

5 May 2010

A Rating Gets SMEs Credit

As the new fiscal opens with the Indian stock markets in strong bullish trends, investors are coming to the country in strong numbers. The credit drought of last year seems a bad memory to be shelved away

5 May 2010

Virtual Reality: Getting Real About Hardware

Watchful spending is not just about saving costs when times are bad; it is good business sense, especially for SMEs. Beyond a certain point, hardware costs in SMEs start to increase exponentially, and unless strategic solutions are implemented, this could spiral out of control

4 May 2010

Empowering India SMEs

The Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector for any country is a major support for broad-based economic growth

4 May 2010

Union Budget 2010: Working For SMEs

After the wishlists, The Speech, media in overdrive with experts discussions, a dramatic walk out during the budget speech, the new financial year is in and here’s where SMEs work their businesses taking advantage of policy revisions and saving on tax or interest payable wherever possible

5 January 2010

Saving on Energy Costs

SMEs have precious little scope for luxury. In fact, anything that helps save costs is welcome. In fact, for small businesses “SOS- Switch off Something” is a good mantra to begin with.

4 January 2010

SME policy initiatives in 2009

A continuous attention to ongoing schemes to assist MSME has demonstrated success in several areas. However, the Ministry of MSME and other government departments are still working hard to pull the sector out of the recession and overcome some inherent problems.

4 January 2010

Effective Communication with Intranets

Many people believe that an intranet is simply the internal network of an organisation. However, this is not true. To put in simple terms, an intranet is your very own private Internet—a restricted computer network that uses Internet technologies like a web browser, a website etc, only for your own consumption and the people you allow to access it.

4 January 2010

Financial planning while overcoming a recession

The SME sector, largely comprising export-oriented businesses, was severely impacted by the economic recession.Now, when the economy is bouncing back, SMEs in India still face tough times, with credit still expensive and inaccessible, high risks and low returns.

19 November 2009

New skill development initiative could change MSME fortunes

The NSDC has been set up on a comprehensive survey of India’s skill requirements. The vision is to create a pool of 500 million skilled people by 2022 as against the current 40 million.

19 November 2009

Navigating SaaS better for SMEs

It’s time has come and those who are already using pay-as-you-go software are witness to its possibilities and benefits. Here is what you need to know to be a part of the SaaS-using group

19 November 2009

Reforms To Improve Credit Access To SMEs

Access to credit forever remains a thorn in the side of the SME sector. But with recent government initiatives and reforms, this is set to change

18 November 2009

Towards Establishing Modern Insolvency And Bankruptcy Codes For SMEs In India

There is a need to institute specialised bankruptcy and insolvency courts and a cadre of specialists providing a ‘single window’ to address all related issues


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