Take One: Big story of the day
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Manish Rathi and Kapil Raizada: Chugging along for the long haul
In 2011, the rookie founders started their journey with a mobility platform for rail travel. A decade later, both are in their 50s, and have another revenue engine: Inter-city buses
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Hospitality industry demonstrated character during the pandemic: Puneet Chhatwal
The MD and CEO of Indian Hotels Company Limited on its quick-service restaurant brand Qmin, testing new business models, what India's F&B industry lacks, and why it has the potential to put the country on the global map
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Learnings from a crowded IPO year
The equity and primary markets saw record highs in 2021. While most IPOs fared well, some stumbled. What investor response tells us is that timing an issue is not enough and neither is making losses a deterrent
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How to tame the elephant in the economy
The RBI expects inflation to peak by the quarter ending March, but that may depend on a clutch of imponderables
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Delivery is on: Can Pizza Hut grab a bigger slice?
Twenty-five years in India and the world's biggest pizza player is still a distant No 2 to Domino's. Can Pizza Hut's latest brand positioning—Dil khol ke delivering—help it deliver a sucker punch?
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How Venkat Viswanathan built LatentView Analytics into India's IPO blockbuster
The 15-year-old data analytics company has taken the conventional road to growth and profitability by focussing on global clients and Indian talent
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How NoBroker turned house-hunting on its head
The proptech company recently became India's first unicorn in the space by directly connecting property owners with property seekers. But can real estate brokers, ubiquitous in India, really be eliminated from deal-making?
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Competing with each other about who has more in the bank is becoming less cool today: Nikhil Kamath
The Zerodha co-founder talks about his initiative to encourage philanthropy among youngsters, and the shift in the way the wealthy have been thinking about giving back to society
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Decoding Uni's Pay 1/3rd Card
The fintech startup promises a customer-friendly credit experience to solve short-term liquidity woes, but does it really stand out in India's competitive buy now pay later space?
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Slam Dunk: Can Rajan Bajaj grab a big slice of the fintech pie?
New unicorn Slice is fast becoming a darling of millennials, Gen Z, and Tiger Global. Can the credit card challenger live up to its billing?
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Entrepreneur at 49, billionaire at 58: How Falguni Nayar built success with Nykaa
Investment banker Falguni Nayar launched beauty and fashion ecommerce platform Nykaa from her father's office when she was 49. Almost a decade later, after her IPO was oversubscribed nearly 82.5 times, India's richest self-made woman billionaire says she is only getting started