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Using Subscription Services to Convert Prospects to Subscribers

Subscription services for products have been popular for many decades, everything from Amway detergents to Wen shampoo to Stitch Fix clothing boxes — and often, businesses will seek to convert prospects using subscriptions.

How to Map Out Your Initial Business Plan

Founders start businesses fueled by a passion that makes them willing to invest a substantial amount of time and savings into getting it off the ground. At the same time, one of the very last things on the mind of someone just starting their new venture is financial planning of their new business.

Small Business Start-up Series – What Does It Cost to Start a Business?

Start-up costs can add up quickly, but if you plan for them, you can launch with confidence and avoid running out of money before you make any. Some businesses are more cash intensive than others so analyzing the start-up costs at the beginning of your project can help you ensure that you’re starting a business that is attainable for you to get off the ground.

Crypto’s Current Volatility

6 second take: Volatile assets will be volatile at times. People who cannot afford crypto’s volatility shouldn’t invest in it. 2It’s been a volatile start to the year for cryptocurrency. Scanning the news it would seem that the bottom fell out, with crash and plummet, among other dramatic words, describing the situation.

How to Tell If It’s Time to Launch Your Business

Are you wondering if now is the right time to vet your business idea, even in these unprecedented times we’re experiencing? If your offering solves real problems that people need solving now, it may be the perfect moment

Understanding Pain Points: How to Communicate the Value of Your Offer

You see clearly how your prospective client can implement your solution and save time, money, grow sales, or whatever the outcome will be, but you can’t seem to communicate it effectively enough to get them to share your vision and buy from you.

How to Be an Entrepreneur: My Success Story

And though BLS doesn’t collect data on how often individuals shift careers, the data demonstrates that workers in their early or mid-careers are more inclined to change jobs than previous generations.

What Is Ethereum?

What is Ethereum? Well, it isn’t bitcoin. It’s a cryptocurrency, true, but Ethereum is different than bitcoin, the crypto granddaddy everyone is talking about. Ethereum is the second-biggest cryptocurrency in the world, and it’s vastly different from bitcoin in terms of purpose, capability, and technology. It’s much more than a digital currency, in the sense that it is programmable.

Is It Time to Invest in Cryptocurrency?

With major changes in the crypto market, investors are weighing whether or not they should buy digital currencies — here’s what to know before you buy. Cryptocurrencies are getting a lot of hype. Major players now allow crypto to be purchased on their platforms, and there seems to be a shift toward embracing this still-new technology.

Building Trust With Clients and Prospects

Bringing clients into the fold and developing them into their full potential as clients is a trust-based process. You can go only so far without building trust with your clients or propsects. Some aspects of trust building are intuitive; we’ve all been around long enough to have been burned. We have a foundation from which to work.

Using Subscription Services to Convert Prospects to Subscribers

Subscription services for products have been popular for many decades, everything from Amway detergents to Wen shampoo to Stitch Fix clothing boxes — and often, businesses will seek to convert prospects using subscriptions.

How to Map Out Your Initial Business Plan

Founders start businesses fueled by a passion that makes them willing to invest a substantial amount of time and savings into getting it off the ground. At the same time, one of the very last things on the mind of someone just starting their new venture is financial planning of their new business.

Small Business Start-up Series – What Does It Cost to Start a Business?

Start-up costs can add up quickly, but if you plan for them, you can launch with confidence and avoid running out of money before you make any. Some businesses are more cash intensive than others so analyzing the start-up costs at the beginning of your project can help you ensure that you’re starting a business that is attainable for you to get off the ground.

Crypto’s Current Volatility

6 second take: Volatile assets will be volatile at times. People who cannot afford crypto’s volatility shouldn’t invest in it. 2It’s been a volatile start to the year for cryptocurrency. Scanning the news it would seem that the bottom fell out, with crash and plummet, among other dramatic words, describing the situation.

How to Tell If It’s Time to Launch Your Business

Are you wondering if now is the right time to vet your business idea, even in these unprecedented times we’re experiencing? If your offering solves real problems that people need solving now, it may be the perfect moment

The Chennai Angels network gets its first CEO

The Chennai Angels (TCA), an angel investor forum which helps entrepreneurs and start-ups with funding, said that it has a new chief executive officer, Chandran Krishnan on board. TCA is a leading angel network head-quartered in Chennai. Over the years, it has funded over 50 start-ups with about ₹75 crore deployed. TCA’s exit rate is 20%

The Chennai Angels fund uFony, School Diary

School Diary® is a user-friendly platform that caters to K12 schools, helping them engage students and conduct classes virtually without compromising on privacy. It is an integrated virtual classroom with online teaching, virtual PTMs, instant academic and non-academic updates, and even an online store where parents can shop for school product

Brinc TechBlazers Accelerator Program

Brinc, one of the world’s leading global venture accelerators, and The Chennai Angels (TCA), a leading angel investor network, are launching an online acceleration program for AgriTech & FoodTech, HealthTech, and FinTech startups, for which applications are now open.

[Funding alert] FMCG distribution platform Dropshop raises Rs 9.3 Cr in pre-Series A led by Inflection Point Ventures

FMCG distribution platform Drop shop will use the funds to strengthen its product and scale up operations to handle more brands and enter new markets like Chennai and Hyderabad. Bengaluru-based one-stop distribution platform for FMCG brands Dropshop

[Funding alert] Backpacker hostel startup goSTOPS raises $1M in pre-Series A round led by IAN, Yuj Ventures

Backpacker hostel brand goSTOPS on Thursday said it raised $1 million in a pre-Series A round led by Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Yuj Ventures — the private investing arm of the family office of Xander Group founder Sid Yog. KRS Jamwal, Uday Chatterjee, and Mitesh Shah led this round at IAN.

12 early-stage startups signalling Chennai’s rise as a key innovation hub in India

Between January and June 2021, Chennai attained the 6th spot among the eight Tier-I cities in terms of number of deals (17), as well as amount of funding ($73.8 million) raised, data by YourStory Research reveals.

Insight Stories by Anu- Week 2 l Segment 4 – The Chennai Angels Ethos & Approach corrected

Insight Stories by Anu – Week 2 l Segment 3 – Learning, choosing support system and investors

Insight Stories by Anu- Week 2 l Segment 5 – Competitive Edge & Advice to Founders plus AH round up

Insight Stories by Anu- Week 3 l Segment 1 – The Plunge and White shirt design lessons

Insight Stories by Anu- Week 3- Introduction to Brag

Insight Stories by Anu – Week 3 l Segment 2 Letting Go & Care LESS confidence

Insight Stories by Anu- Week 3 l Segment 3 – Experiments and challenging Perceptions

Insight Stories by Anu- Week 3 l Segment 4 – Mentoring & Pivots

Insight Stories by Anu- Week 3 l Segment 5 – Do’s & Don’ts for Founders and AH roundup

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MangoPoint Secures INR 3.5 Cr in Funding Round Led by the Chennai Angels

MY3DMeta Raises over Rupees 10.5 Cr from the Chennai Angels, Dholakia Ventures, and Others

Homegrown Sustainable Baby Essentials and Apparels Brand A Toddler Thing Raises Funds from Chennai Angels in the First Round

Premium Coffee Brand Trelish raises 3.5 Cr from the Chennai Angels