Survive the Bengaluru Plastic Ban With These Rewritable Notebooks and...
With the plastic ban all set to be implemented in Bengaluru, five enterprising youngsters have a timely solution that redefines the way we use paper and plastic. Annoyed by how pamphlets are an...
View ArticleThis College Student Is Taking Thousands of Beggars off the Streets and into...
Swati Bondia has created a powerful story of social entrepreneurship. At the age of 18, she started a handicrafts business that helped over 1000 people from the streets start leading dignified lives....
View Article5 Ways the Stand Up India Scheme Could Benefit Aspiring Women and SC/ST...
The Stand Up India scheme, launched on April 5, ensures that women and SC/ST entrepreneurs have a fair chance at setting up their own businesses. The scheme facilitates loans from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 1...
View ArticleTBI BLOGS: Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Tamil Nadu Sell Millets As Junk Food...
At a time when junk food has urban youngsters under its thrall, there is a need for interesting, appetising and healthy alternatives to burgers, pizzas and the like. Millet-based products could be a...
View ArticleHow an IIT Teen Created a Travel Start-up That Clocks Rs 1.5 Million Monthly...
This teenager set out to disrupt the stagnant-for-decades travel space of India with his business ideas. Today, he is a growing entrepreneur, who has created something incredibly innovative to serve...
View ArticleTBI BLOGS: Why Renu, a Sualkuchi Weaver, Will Never Stop Making Beautiful...
Sualkuchi is the home of expert Assamese weavers. Many families can trace their weaving tradition back to thousands of years. Even today, almost every household has a loom working. These weavers are...
View ArticleMake Your Parties Eco-Friendly by Switching from Disposables to Dinnerware on...
Two women from Bangalore are changing the use and dispose habits of people in the city. They are slowly replacing disposable ware with dinnerware that they rent out for parties. Pooja Dixit and...
View ArticleGlass Ceiling Broken: Two Indian Origin Women Feature in Forbes ‘Richest...
Sharing the honour with achievers like media mogul Oprah Winfrey, prolific writer Nora Roberts and Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg, two Indian-origin women have made it to the Forbes list of America’s...
View ArticleThese Two Men Are Helping Delhites Recycle Waste and Reduce the Burden on...
Everyone knows the mantra for saving our environment from further degradation is – 'Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.' But for many people, although reduce and reuse are easy enough to practice, recycling is...
View ArticleTBI Blogs: 5 Lessons I Learnt About Building a Successful Startup Business...
Ensuring the success of startups is not easy. They require a lot of hard work, sound decision-making abilities and active management. Here are some growth hacks that will help you take your startup to...
View ArticleA Father-Daughter Duo in Guwahati Converts Elephant and Rhino Poop to Paper...
Mahesh and Nisha Bora have set up an organization in Guwahati that converts elephant and rhino poop into paper, further manufacturing beautiful products like notebooks and more. This is how their...
View ArticleHow One Woman Is Making it Possible for India’s Disabled to Travel and...
Delhi-based Neha Arora and her organisation Planet Abled have opened new horizons for India’s disabled population, helping them travel instead of being confined to the four walls of their homes. "The...
View ArticleThis Engineer Left His Government Job to Become a Farmer and Is Earning in...
Harish Dhandev, a 24-year-old engineer, left his government job in 2013 and started doing aloe vera farming. Today, he is the owner of a company with a turnover in crores. At a time when the number of...
View ArticleConnect with Bengaluru’s Startup Community at These Creative and Affordable...
For startups working on tight budgets, a penny saved is a penny earned. Keeping this in mind, people in India's start-up hub of Bengaluru are investing in a different kind of concept – affordable and...
View ArticleTBI Blogs: How Honey Bees Became a Source of Empowerment for Women in Rural...
Josephine Selvaraj is ensuring empowerment of women in rural India using bee-farming and bee-keeping. Josephine Selvaraj is the founder of the Vibis Natural Bee Farm based in the Vadipatti Taluk of...
View ArticleMeet Jabir Karat: The Man On a Mission to Manage Kerala’s Waste
A student, a ragpicker and a social entrepreneur. Here's the inspiring story of Jabir Karat. Jabir Karat was born in a small village called Puthuppadi in Kerala, nearly 45 km away from Kozhikode city....
View ArticleTBI Blogs: How a Quirky Footwear Brand Is Empowering Young Artists across the...
Young artists are using Shakeef Khan and Sujeet Maadhogaria's F-Gali to display their talent on fun and quirky footwear. Shakeef Khan was always on the hunt for something exclusive, trendy and...
View ArticleThis Facebook Group Helps Entrepreneurs Hire, Connect, and More
“Starting a business is not an easy task. Many young people coming out of colleges with the hopes of becoming entrepreneurs, don’t know how to register a company, how to develop an app, how to reach to...
View ArticleTBI Blogs:Just Launched a Startup? Here Are 4 Incredible Schemes & Benefits...
In a bid to encourage start-ups in India, the government is offering them a series of benefits, right from tax holidays to funding. India has had start-ups ever since the term was invented, but only...
View ArticleSmall Loans Make Big Entrepreneurs out of 10 Women in the Heartland of UP
Stories from the heartland of UP are invariably about living on the margins. However, where women have come together to form Self Help Groups (SHGs) and stepped on to the economic ladder, the narrative...
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