Why SMEs fail - keep your eyes open
Bikky Khosla | 21 May, 2013 |
| Surveys and studies conducted across the world over different time periods provide compelling evidence that a vast number of small businesses fail in the first few years. Majority of failures occur in the first two years while only a handful succeed to complete their first five years. Expert opinions on why this happens vary, but overall most of them point out some common pitfalls into which small business start-ups easily tumble into. |
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Export outlook not so grim
Bikky Khosla | 14 May, 2013 |
| Our export target for the current financial year has been set at $325 billion, more than one-third lower than the $500 billion target fixed two years ago. |
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FTP: New but not novel
Bikky Khosla | 24 Apr, 2013 |
| It was widely expected that the Annual Supplement to Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-14 would at least address the key challenges faced by the export sector, considering the bleak demand outlook in international markets. But last week's FTP again put a dampener on our expectations. |
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India EU free trade deal: Is it going to happen
Bikky Khosla | 18 Apr, 2013 |
| India and the 27-nation European Union, our largest merchandise trade partner as a single economy, are inching toward a Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement – we have heard this dime-a-dozen in recent years. |
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Bring your financial planning up to scratch
Bikky Khosla | 09 Apr, 2013 |
| One financial year has just ended and another begun. This time of the year is always quite a busy one for business-people like us. In fact, a stressful time -- and more if we leave everything for the last hour. |
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Internet revolution: Time to leap on the bandwagon
Bikky Khosla | 02 Apr, 2013 |
| How much promise the Internet holds for small businesses? Thousands, perhaps millions, of pages have been written about how the Internet is making its way to our lives. It is changing everything - the way we work, learn and play |
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