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Understanding Growth and Value Investing
Stock market investing can seem overwhelming with large-cap versus mid- or small-cap stocks, and now there’s this: another breakdown into another set of classifications. What is an investor to do?
It doesn’t need to be overly complicated. Investors into growth or value are seeking the same thing — appreciation of their investment. They are just going about it in a different way.
- by Murugan R
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5 Tips for Expanding Your Business Into a New Market
There are different reasons that as a business owner you could decide to offer news goods or services. You may be ready to extend your brand because your existing market is getting saturated and this is your next growth opportunity. Or, industry forces could be at play and your existing offer is becoming obsolete and you need to pivot to stay alive.
- by Murugan R
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How Successful Entrepreneurs Conquer and Avoid Anxiety
We’ve all heard the advice, “Work to live; don’t live to work.” I appreciate this sentiment.
I’m as committed to this concept as I am to managing a successful business. After all, I’m working toward a win-win — making a great life for my family and myself and contributing to the success of my customers and my community.
- by Murugan R
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Mastering Productivity for Your Business
Many entrepreneurs are alone at the top, owning a clear majority or 100 percent of their businesses. And while they enjoy the fruits of their labor, this situation of sole responsibility can be stressful. If the stress is not well managed, it can lead to unproductive habits, which can be draining on your energy and enthusiasm.
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The Perils of Emotions in Investing
In many ways, emotions are life’s seasoning; they spice up what might be bland or dull. Like spice, they may get out of control before you know it.There are some things you just don’t add spice to, like ice cream. Or investing.
- by Murugan R
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Expanding Your Business: Delegate, and Grow Your Practice
Running any business is hard. Running one by yourself is demanding and draining. There’s never enough time to get everything done. Eventually all business owners, including financial advisors, face the daunting task of delegating.
- by Murugan R
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Why Should I Invest?
Regardless of economic background or walk of life, most individuals make money in two ways: earning it through work and investing. Though for the first-time investor, this second option can feel daunting and inaccessible.
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51 Essential Small-Business Tools for Your Company
It all starts with an idea. It’s a great idea, to be sure. But how are you going to get the idea to the people, your customers? How will you market your idea? Implement it? Schedule it? Pay for it? And deliver it on time?
- by Murugan R
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How to find the right Angel Investor in India
Start-ups require funding at various stages of their growth. They may need initial funding at the seed stage for go-to-market and later for development of new products, hiring resources, marketing and sales expansion.
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How to pitch to Angel Investors
They tend to operate either alone, as individuals, or as groups (syndicates or networks of some kind). In India, networks can be those like Indian Angel Network (IAN), The Chennai Angels (TCA), Mumbai Angels and so on.
India has a distinct shortage of Angels; the total number will barely exceed a few thousand.
- by Murugan R
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Conducting Business, Financial and Legal Due Diligence
The risk in this asset class is manifold, and includes concept risk, execution risk, people risk, mortality risk, and liquidity risk. The chances of losing invested capital are reasonably high and it is prudent to minimize that risk.
- by Murugan R
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Being a Lead Angel
However, having been tasked to write on the subject, the best I might do is to reflect on my own experience as a Lead angel and speak in first-person terms about what it meant to me.
This piece hence comes in conversational tones, ‘warts and all’ and more candid than may have been bargained for.
- by Murugan R
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How to Build the Right Team for Your Growing Startup
So the first step towards building your start up is putting together a good team. Remember that the employees you hire can make or break your business. Hiring the right people makes all the difference, especially in the early days. Here are a few ways in helping you make the decision a little easier.
- by Murugan R
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Finding the Right Start-up to Invest in
Over the course of 2019, India saw the emergence of 7 new unicorns, bringing the total count to 24, standing third only after the US and China. This is the vote of confidence that the future of the Indian Start-up Industry needed to attract small investors into this booming sector. You need not hire a broker or be a Warren Buffett to find the right start-up to invest in. Let’s start with the basics.
- by Murugan R
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[Funding alert] AI-based edtech startup SP Robotic Works raises $3M in Series A round
The funding round witnessed additional participation from BCCL and its existing investors Indian Angel Network and multiple renowned Angel Investors like Ajai Chowdhry (Founder, HCL), Raman Roy (Chairman and Managing Director – Quatrro), and others.“SP Robotic Works believes in building a scalable and highly qualitative platform that can enable practical learning of concepts in a fun way.
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[Funding alert] MLOps platform NimbleBox.ai raises $1M in seed round led by Venture Catalysts
NimbleBox.ai, a Techstars portfolio company aiming to build and provide a complete toolkit for developers focused on artificial intelligence, on Tuesday raised $1 million in its seed round led by Venture Catalysts. The round also saw participation from The Chennai Angels, Nanavati Family, and Astarc Ventures.
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Mindler Raises $1.5 Million In Pre-series A Funding
Ecosystem Ventures, Inflection Point Ventures, nVentures Singapore and The Chennai Angels are prominent investors in the recent round of funding.
Mindler provides a SaaS platform for educators and ed-tech partners along with a comprehensive career guidance platform for students.
- by Murugan R
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What’s Fueling The Rise Of Angel Investors From Smaller Cities
India’s startup ecosystem is going through a paradigm shift in many ways. One such shift is the rise of angels investors from places beyond major cities. This is despite the risks associated with this asset class.
The trend goes hand-in-hand with the increasing number of founders starting out from smaller cities. Success stories of these founders have led to more angel investors from the hinterland and vice-versa.
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The Chennai Angels invests ₹2.61 crore in start-up Blaer Motors
The start-up has been working on hybrid and electric drive-train solutions for two-wheelers and three-wheelers and collaborating with multiple OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) for commercializing drive-train solutions.
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The Chennai Angels invests in Bumberry
With participation from Bumberry’s existing investors Konglo and Kerala Angels, the total investment stands at Rs. 3.11 crores.
Bumberry was Kerala Angel Network(KAN)’s first investment after formation of the network, early last year.
- by Murugan R
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MangoPoint Secures INR 3.5 Cr in Funding Round Led by the Chennai Angels
MangoPoint, the first APEDA- and NPPO-recognized packhouse in Tamil Nadu,
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MY3DMeta Raises over Rupees 10.5 Cr from the Chennai Angels, Dholakia Ventures, and Others
Y3DMeta a 3D Modelling tech company, secured an investment of
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Homegrown Sustainable Baby Essentials and Apparels Brand A Toddler Thing Raises Funds from Chennai Angels in the First Round
A Toddler Thing is one of the most sought-after Baby
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Premium Coffee Brand Trelish raises 3.5 Cr from the Chennai Angels
Trelish, a premium coffee brand specializing in instant liquid
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EarthFokus raises Rs 1.52 Cr from the Chennai Angels
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 22 (ANI/BusinessWire India): EarthFokus, a
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Ecoil Secures INR 3 Cr in Funding Round Led by The Chennai Angels
Ecoil, a pioneering eco-friendly gasoline production startup, has secured INR
