Rs 2 crore revenue, but he still decided to quit: IITian founder chooses life as engineer despite success due to one major problemAn IIT Kanpur alumnus who had scaled his D2C shoe brand to nearly Rs 2 crore in monthly sales decided to shut it down and return to a full-...
03 Mar, 2026, 09.09 PM IST
'40 IIT selections': Zoho's Sridhar Vembu is super impressed with this small village in Bihar known as IIT factoryPatwa Toli in Bihar is famous for sending many students to IIT every year. This year, 40 students cleared the IIT entrance exam. The villag...
03 Jun, 2025, 11.57 AM IST
IIT Kanpur graduate left a high-paying job to get rich fast. After struggle of 10 years, he is warning othersHarsh Pokharna's entrepreneurial journey showcased the challenges of leaving a high-paying job to build a startup. His experience at OkCred...
01 Mar, 2025, 11.10 AM IST
The IIT graduate, who quit his job without telling his parents, is now owner of Rs 1,000 crore companyRishi Das, influenced by his father's resilience, quit his job to pursue entrepreneurship and co-founded CareerNet and IndiQube, transformi...
16 Jan, 2025, 12.33 PM IST
How many hours of preparation needed for IITs? JEE topper, IITians share their routine after aspirant's schedule goes viralSocial media buzzed with an IITian's trend, involving Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's arrest, an IIT Kharagpur graduate. A JEE aspirant's intens...
22 Mar, 2024, 01.17 PM IST
Kavin Mittal, Kunal Shah share top tips on customer retentionAt a recent IIT-Bombay summit, entrepreneurs shared their experiences.
08 Feb, 2018, 11.30 AM IST
Innovate, become entrepreneurs: Subramanian Swamy tells IITians"Follow steady growth by increasing capital & labour which is always associated with diminishing returns and less growth. But if one wants ...
02 Sep, 2017, 07.28 PM IST
Education is strongest software to fight naxalism: IITianEducation is the "strongest software" to combat the problem of naxalism in the country says IITian Vatsalya Chauhan, a computer professiona...
01 Mar, 2016, 03.43 PM IST
IIT graduates turning to start-ups with tech becoming basis of many emerging businessesThe venture, HyperVerge, has built solutions based on computer vision technology. It has big clients, and it has raised substantial funds f...
06 Feb, 2015, 11.35 AM IST
BJP launches drive for donations to 'Modi for PM fund'BJP today launched a drive to collect donations for "Modi for PM fund" from the people and also inducted several former IITians into the pa...
14 Jan, 2014, 07.09 PM IST
The Network Effect: How collegemates are coming together to start their own businessesBonds forged during the formative years are proving to be critical assets as young entrepreneurs seek money and mentoring to grow fledgling...
18 Oct, 2013, 04.47 AM IST
US colleges learn business mantra from Indian gurus like Soumitra Dutta, Pradeep K Khosla and Dipak C JainA reason behind this success is a three-letter word - IIT. Many of the stars at management schools in US come from the IIT.
25 Jan, 2012, 11.17 PM IST
- Former Home Secretary GK Pillai to head venture cap fund for IIT, IIM graduates
Former Home Secretary GK Pillai has become the chairman of a first-of-its-kind venture capital fund that will focus exclusively on financin...
26 Aug, 2011, 12.26 AM IST
- IIT-M 'engineers' start-up recruitment calendar
It is a novel start for start-ups looking at hiring. IIT Madras (IIT-M) has bookmarked two days exclusively in its placement calendar for v...
22 Jan, 2010, 11.26 AM IST
- IITians created 2 crore jobs in 50 years: Study
IIT alumni hold senior positions across industries and govts. They are associated with incremental economic value creation of Rs 20 lakh cr...
25 Nov, 2008, 09.49 AM IST
- Women IITians join hands
Guess how Senator Hillary Clinton; GE CEO, Jeff Immelt; Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin; president of University of California Bob Dynes and Rajat ...
02 Jul, 2007, 07.00 AM IST
- Using social networking for hiring
Success is about the number of registered users of the site & the number of people you can reach out to.
04 Jan, 2007, 01.30 AM IST