Udacity, a global leader in online education, is in the process of expanding its operations in India and building a strong team of high value individuals to lead the India operations. The company today announced the appointment of Ishan Gupta as the managing director for India. A successful entrepreneur, Ishan Gupta has played a formidable role in edutech in India, having built Edukart, a leading education marketplace for India. He most recently served as the vice president (Business) at Paytm, the leading Indian mobile commerce platform.
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“Sometime ago, I assisted Melissa Hathaway, who was a cybersecurity advisor to Obama and Bush, in preparing a Cyber Readiness Index for India… It states that India faces a herculean task of improving upon all markers of its cyber health like national strategy, incident response, e-crime and law enforcement, information sharing, investment in R&D, diplomacy and trade, and defence crisis and response.”
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Whether it’s an Indian working in Silicon Valley or an Indian working in Dubai, their, “…remittances far exceeded India’s earnings from high technology exports ($17.3 billion in 2014) and constituted 3.3 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015.”
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“Anticipated as a huge leap towards "Housing for All by 2022", the move is likely to boost affordable housing in urban peripheries… Micro-markets such as Moshi, Chikhali and Akurdi in Pune will see the good demand for housing projects in the affordable category. In Delhi NCR, areas such as Noida Expressway, Neemrana, Bhiwadi and Yamuna Expressway are anticipated to remain popular.”
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Urban India travels at an average speed of 22.7 km/hr and 4 million litres of fuel and 6.5 million kilograms of carbon emission saved from people using Ola Share rides in 2016.
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What’s the most under performing product online? What did we buy most online? Was it plane tickets or sofas? Did the internet consumerism grow in India last year? Did it grow faster than 2015? Can we keep pace in 2017? All that and more.
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New research finds that private labels accounted for less than 10% of the Gross Margin Value (GMV) for Indian etailers, but are expected to become a much bigger contributor by 2017.
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The bootstrappers, the uninformed and the counterfeiters don’t have the money, the knowledge or the inclination to pursue legal channels of protecting ones intellectual property rights (IPR). It may seem like an unnecessary hassle while you’re still rushing to establish yourself. But if you make it big like Samsung or Apple or Paytm or PayPal, do you really want to be caught with no legs to stand on?
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