Shantanu Rooj knows a thing or two about educational aspirations and achievements. He was an all-India topper in CBSE, got his engineering degree from the Benares Hindu University specialising in mining engineering (where he was again a topper and a gold medalist), and later completed his MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management, Mumbai. It is not unnatural for him to be drawn to do...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent innovation and potential for growth into tomorrow’s successful businesses. Venture capitalist funds, angel investors and private equity funds scout for promising SMEs for investment. For investors of such funds, it is an indirect avenue for investing into SMEs, like investing in equity through mutual funds. Investors would examine the merits and...

They are young. They are all batchmates from IIT and they think they are on to something truly big – ads on mobile Internet. Meet mKhoj and its founders – Naveen Tewari, Amit Gupta and Abhay Singhal. What made them jump into it? In the late 1990s, the Internet was spreading rapidly and there was money to be made in developing sites that dominated the Internet such as Yahoo! and Google. The...