‘One small step for man, a giant leap……’ echoes the mood at Navi Mumbai’s 50th Startup Saturday. It was one giant leap towards building the entrepreneurs ecosystem in the new Mumbai’s upcoming area. 

Along with startups many large corporates are also moving to co-working space even as they build their new campuses, to lower the overhead costs by limiting the amount of separate, dedicated space, which a business needs to lease. From large information technology, banking, financial services to insurance companies are increasingly opting for co-working spaces to cope-up with the rising rentals while getting the flexibility to move in a grade A offices in a prime property market across the country with complete facility. 

A modern Entrepreneurship definition is all about transforming the world by solving big problems like initiating social change, creating an innovative product or presenting a new life-changing solution. What the entrepreneurship definition doesn’t tell you is that entrepreneurship is what people do to take their career and dreams into their hands and lead it in the direction of their own choice. It’s about building a life on your own terms.

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

Imagine if France was a company, how would you have evaluated it before the FIFA world cup began? How about unfancied Croatia? Well, that’s what happens if you happen to attend a Headstart event amidst the football frenzy. This Startup Saturday was ALL ABOUT STARTUP FUNDING. As participants, we went through stages of a company… Continue reading Lessons from the session- All about Startup Funding

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.

Being an entrepreneur is like heading out into the uncharted territory where you have to find ways by exploring. It’s reasonably obvious where to go, what to do next, and mainly you can rely on yourself when you run into problems. There are many days when you feel like things will never work out and you’re operating at a loss for endless months. Sometimes you will find a roller coaster ride of emotions that come with striking out on your own actions. Before quitting your day job to pursue the idea that’s been brewing in your mind, is a life-changing rung that many of the entrepreneurs have experienced with. But once you get the success it is worth it to take a toll on your own proficiency.

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?