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Headstart Network Foundation and Axilor Ventures have been working together to help accelerate startups in India. Here’s a blog post from Ganapathy Venugopal, CEO and Co-founder, Axilor Ventures. In this first blog on a 2 part series on Seed Funding, I share learnings from helping startups successfully raise funding as part of Axilor’s Accelerator program,… Continue reading Are you Seed Funding ready?

Since its commencement in Raipur, Headstart has been playing an active role in making the start-up ecosystem in Raipur more vibrant with its various initiatives. By organizing Headstart Higher, a ‘speed dating’ format based hiring event which was first of its kind in Raipur, team of Headstart Raipur showed their diligence towards enabling a well-groomed… Continue reading Hiring through speed dating | Headstart Higher

A startup isn’t just about the product, it is also about those using the product – ‘Consumer’!Startup Saturday, July 2018 was about “Understanding Consumer behaviour for start-ups”. As veterans threw light on the topic, here are some key insights: Anand Saboo Founder, Sahyog Design Way Pvt.Ltd. Design the right research questions Surveys could be taken… Continue reading Understanding Consumer behaviour for start-ups

We explored what it takes to design and build great products at the July edition of Startup Saturday in Mumbai. Three of our speakers were: Hanisha Vaswani (Building and Scaling a Tech Product) Lavina Utamani (Fundamentals of UX in Product Design) Love Suryavanshi (Human Psychology in Product Design) Our first speaker, Hanisha Vaswani stressed on… Continue reading What it takes to build a great product?

Budding entrepreneurs and a zillion ideas, yet only a few make it to “the unicorn league”. As Peter Thiel aptly quotes, “EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you… Continue reading Launching Headstart at Surat & Vadodara

Don’t feel inferior is you are delivering grocery items or simple food items like – paapad, saree, etc. because no product ever is small. What matters is how you execute and market it effectively.

This edition of Startup Saturday was about fundraising for Startups from an Investor’s perspective. Mr Bhadresh Khamar, Investor and CEO of Megan executive search and Kegan advisory firm gave his insights after hearing the demo pitches given by 5 startups. Mr Bhadresh Khamar, Investor and CEO of Megan executive search and Kegan advisory firm gave… Continue reading Fund Raising for Startups

In the midst of hustle that goes into building a startup from scratch the word, ‘Intellectual Property’ (IP) takes a back seat, to make entrepreneurs understand the importance of intangible benefits of IP here comes to a session. Organizer:  HEADSTART, Mumbai ( http://headstart.in/chapter/mumbai ) Theme: Intellectual Property Rights and Laws for Startups Venue: SP Jain Institute… Continue reading Startups & Intellectual Property Rights, Overrated or Underrated?

Funding doesn’t come just by approaching the people as per our own positive perceptions about our startup; it comes from creating the environment where the ideas can connect with the intellectual minds. So, going for the investor to get the funding will not make us succeed until and unless we are focusing on the long-term… Continue reading All About Startup Funding

At Headstart, we take pride at being close to founders and early stage startups, and help them along in their journey. Our Mentor program is a testament to this fact and has helped many startups via close group sessions since the program’s inception. One of the constant feedbacks we hear from founders is about how… Continue reading Lead Generation and Sales for SaaS and B2B start-ups

Patna is a city full of coaching institutes where most of the youngsters come to fulfil their desire to get their dream job. However, there are other youngsters also who have decided to become job creators. Patna has developed some amazing startups in the city in the last five years. The awareness about starting a… Continue reading Launch of Headstart Patna Chapter – Start-up India is moving East

Mentors and advisors have been a huge influence on our growth. If there is one thing, apart from hard work, that can accelerate your growth as a startup is relationships. Building relationships with key people helps in quick learning and decision making at every step.