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The immense opportunity presented by the large number of consumers in India has led to 2100 - 2500 enterprises being started in India per day. Between 750-800 getting out of business or are becoming dormant, as per a survey conducted by the India SME Forum and SDRC India Advisors. SME Forum in association with Vodafone Business service, organized a day long program “BUSINESS CLASS 2016” to motivate aspiring entrepreneurs. The India SME Forum shared best practices, information and knowledge, as well as seeks and recognizes emerging MSMEs. Recently, it organized...

Worldwide IT leader Cisco unveiled LaunchPad in order to mentor and empower the innovation eco-system in the country. The LaunchPad is designed to bring together Cisco, their channel partners, developers and their start-up enterprises and jointly look at solving issues to addressing new markets, and build on digital businesses. Mentorship will come from Cisco’s finest own talent who will be connecting the start-up talent with potential investors and guide them on creation of solutions and scaling of businesses. The LaunchPad will also bring other enablers like certified service providers and...

The Statup India program specifically envisages technology business incubators and research parks. To boost such programs, Microsoft is working in conjugation with TCS to create a co-innovation platform which will help startups to develop products the two companies’ customers are seeking. “Microsoft Accelerator and TCS co-innovation network will create a platform to spur the Indian start-up system through an open framework,” the IT majors said at ‘Think Next Summer 2016′, a Microsoft Accelerator flagship forum here for thought leaders intended to drive transformation through innovation. “The progress India has made...