REVEALED: Entrepreneurship - The Real Truth

CSIR-NIIST, Tata Consumer to set up food fortification centre in Thiruvananthapuram

CSIR-NIIST and Tata Consumer Products Ltd are collaborating to create a Centre of Excellence for food fortification. This new partnership aims to enhance India's capabilities in food fortification research and development. Located at the CSIR-NIIST Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Hub, the centre will focus on innovative fortification technologies. It will…

The Economic Times · Sep 25

Indian-origin entrepreneur Gagan Biyani launches tuition-free AI academy; tech giants Satya Nadella, Sam Altman to teach

Gagan Biyani has launched the Horowitz Andreessen Academy in San Francisco to provide an alternative education. This academy will focus on technology, entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence for young people. Its first program will begin in 2027 with around 50 students enrolled for a tuition-free year. Students will receive computing credits…

The Economic Times · Sep 24

Meet Gagan Biyani, Indian-origin entrepreneur behind Andreessen Horowitz’s new school that won't give degree but would charge $60k to $90k because Sam Altman, Satya Nadella will take classes

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Gagan Biyani, best known as a co-founder of online learning platform Udemy, is now taking on an unusual education venture: a new San Francisco academy backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. Biyani is the CEO of the newly launched Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a private,…

The Times of India · Sep 23

Why women's financial protection must evolve

India has made major strides in women’s financial participation, with rising workforce participation, bank-account ownership and entrepreneurship, but a wide protection gap remains in insurance. Women still account for only about a third of individual life insurance ownership and under a third of health insurance proposers, highlighting the need for…

The Economic Times · Sep 21

16-year-old built an AI tool after becoming a victim of a deepfake, here’s what happened next

Vaishnav Anand was 16 when he started building DeepTrust after experiencing a deepfake himself. The high school student developed AI technology aimed at detecting manipulated video, audio, images and satellite imagery. His work has since expanded into deepfake research, consumer-focused verification tools and school pilots, while earning recognition through research…

The Economic Times · Sep 20

Meet a 71-year-old who retired as a radiologist and professor, and now runs a banana-skewer business: ‘I never want to retire. Why would you do that?’

Richard Brown’s career has taken him from the exam room to the classroom and boardroom. At 71, he’s still working—and is now focused on entrepreneurship.

Fortune · Sep 20

Meet Moziah Bridges, the 12-year-old Memphis entrepreneur who turned handmade bow ties into a business that generated about $150,000 in sales and funded summer camp for local children

Moziah Bridges started Mo’s Bows at age 9 after struggling to find bow ties for children. By 12, his business had grown to $150,000, with five staff members and attention from Shark Tank, Vogue and O magazine. From learning to sew with his grandmother to supporting Memphis children, Bridges’ story…

The Economic Times · Sep 18

Meet Gabby Goodwin, the US girl who turned a childhood problem with lost hair barrettes into a patented product and a business that teaches other girls entrepreneurship

Gabby Goodwin’s entrepreneurial journey began when she was 5 years old and repeatedly returned from school without her hair barrettes. After her mother, Rozalynn, shared her frustration on social media, the family’s pastor suggested creating barrettes that would not get lost. Gabby continued asking to begin a science project, and…

The Economic Times · Sep 17

Massachusetts brothers started junk-removal business as teenagers with $4,000 pickup truck; it made $3.04 million in 2025 & now targets $5 million in revenue in 2026

Massachusetts brothers Kirk and Jacob McKinney turned a $4,000 used pickup truck and a teenage side hustle into Junk Teens, a multimillion-dollar junk-removal business. Founded in 2021, the company generated $3.04 million in revenue in 2025 after completing more than 5,500 jobs, and is targeting $5 million in revenue in…

The Economic Times · Sep 17

Lessons in starting up: How an entrepreneurial couple built a joint legacy

For Vineet Agrawal and Sikha Agrawalla, entrepreneurship was not a single leap but a sequence of carefully planned decisions and treating financial planning as a shared responsibility.

The Economic Times · Sep 11