You have music talent to wrangle, logistics to figure out, security detail to hire, and parking issues to fix.

Decide on the General Flow of the FestivalPeople attending your event need food, beverages, trash cans, access to first aid, merchandise, and restrooms.

Festival Planning Is UniqueFestival planning isn’t necessarily like other events such as weddings or parties.

It’s a highly specialized and involved form of event planning requiring expertise in organization and management.

Final ThoughtsPlanning a music festival is a huge undertaking, one that shouldn’t be taken lightly. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579573813.6244318/How-to-Throw-a-Coachella-Worthy-Festival-–-Business-Ideas?ref=audio_experience

This is what happened to Sudipta Banerjee, who comes from a small village in West Bengal and is now the CTO of Wynk Music and Airtel Xstream (Airtel TV).

Sudipta Banerjee, the CTO of Wynk Music, the popular music streaming app, figured this out very early, when he was graduating from NIT Warangal.

Learning to see the larger pictureSudipta, 37, comes from a small village near West Midnapore (Paschim Medinipur) in West Bengal.

In the early 2000s, unlike now, there was “no such thing as a product company or a services-based company”, let alone choices for or against them.

A push from a friend, the HR head at Wynk Music (a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel), led to a call with the app’s business head who sits out of London. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579572010.8544924/[Techie-Tuesday]-Meet-Sudipta-Banerjee,-a-teacher’s-son-from-a-small-Bengal-village-who-went-on-to-build-Wynk-Music?ref=audio_experience

The growth of Pune's startup ecosystem has been led by its wide tech talent pool, Maharashtra’s innovation-friendly policies, and other factors.

AET Fund's principal partner Yuki KawamuraJapan’s Akatsuki Entertainment Technology (AET) Fund is “very bullish” on India and sees enormous potential in the country.

It has already made investments in 13 early-stage startups since its launch in March.

The company now has 42 SKUs with 120 herbal formulations and plans to expand to 53 SKUs by February 2020.

Reliance Jio is the latest tech company to join the UPI bandwagon. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579570210.4079483/Why-Bengaluru-remains-the-best-place-for-tech-startups-in-India-(and-other-top-stories-of-the-day)?ref=audio_experience

Now, the head of Q-rious initiative at Equiv, she is creating equal job opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community in India.

YourStory caught up with Ankita to know more about her life, her role at Equiv, and career-related challenges for the LGBTQ+ community in India.

What are your observations about career opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community in India?

Women, the LGBTQ+ community, the differently-abled, and others ­– no matter who you are, you deserve to be included, and we aim to facilitate that.

AM: In 2020, we have planned 14 events for women and seven for the LGBTQ+ community. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579568406.1986911/This-young-‘Roadies’-is-creating-equal-job-opportunities-for-India’s-LGBTQ+-community?ref=audio_experience

It was to address this concern for Indian employees that France-based B2B food catering tech company Elior Group started operations in the country in 2017.

The question to be asked is whether they been procured in the right and sustainable way,” Philippe Guillemot, CEO, Elior Group, says.

Elior India KitchenIn fiscal 2017-18, Elior Group had made a revenue of €4,886 million.

Philippe Guillemont, CEO, Elior Group (left) and Sanjay Kumar, CEO and MD, Elior India (right)Healthy optionsSanjay Kumar, MD and CEO, Elior India, notes that an in-house ordering app like El Chef helps any professional work around their work-day challenges like extended meetings, deadlines, and general work pressure.

From around 120,000 meals a day when it started operations in India, Elior Group now dishes out over 200,000 meals a day. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579566606.5851562/Using-the-corporate-kitchen-model,-B2B-foodtech-player-Elior-India-dishes-out-200k-meals-a-day-across-offices?ref=audio_experience

There was a dire need to have a business lean, employee-centric, and agile HR platform that self-evolves,” says Prasad Rajappan, Founder and MD, ZingHR.

Prasad Rajappan, ZingHRIt claims to adopt an employee-centric, mobile-first approach covering the entire employee life cycle - from recruitment to exit.

Some of the features offered by the company include an employee self-service portal, employee data management, leave management platform, claims management, and payroll processing.

Today, the company reports to be clocking one million in employee records, and a cloud human capital management (HCM) platform designed to cater to complex enterprises.

“We were one of the early proponents of cloud-based multi-tenant HR platform. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579564806.1387663/With-one-million-employee-records,-Mumbai-based-ZingHR-offers-hire-to-retire-tech-solutions-for-companies?ref=audio_experience

Pursuing higher education as a business owner can do wonders for both your business and your team.

In fact, there is nothing holding you back and everything to gain for your business success through higher education.

Here are five ways that advanced higher education can help your business grow.

Higher Education Improves Your SkillsOne of the main advantages of additional education is an improved skill set.

However, in order to be promoted well and advance through your career additional education communicates your motivation to improve. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579563006.6435769/Higher-Education-And-Your-Business-–-Running-Your-Business?ref=audio_experience

The programme provides opportunities for startups and small enterprises to receive benefits of up to $3 Mn.

To apply for ‘SSB 360’ programme, the startups should be established for at least ten years with revenue below INR 100 Cr.

Moreover, the joint initiative between G7 CR and Microsoft is expected to provide a unique opportunity for startups to leverage Microsoft products, platforms and the market reach to scale up their business.

Microsoft Scaleup ProgrammeLast month, the tech giant held an accelerator programme Microsoft Scaleup, under its Microsoft for Startups, where it declared to support 18 startups to help them by providing world-class technology, mentorship and other community benefits.

Through this programme, Microsoft claimed to have helped startups right from its product development stage to exploring emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and blockchain among others. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579561206.0395157/Microsoft,-G7-CR-Technologies-Launch-SSB-360-Programme-To-Boost-Indian-Startups?ref=audio_experience

Be sure you understand every aspect of your businessEvery entrepreneur has a bent toward one or two specific areas of business.

But regardless of your interests, you have to be involved (on some level) with every aspect of your business.

Set your business up with the right legal structureBusiness ideas can develop slowly over many months.

Incorporating will protect you from personal liability from any business debts and obligations, and can provide tax advantages as well.

Do your research and find out the best type of legal entity for your business and goals. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579559417.6879272/5-Helpful-Pointers-for-First-Time-Business-Founders?ref=audio_experience

Nudge.ai, the Toronto-based startup that developed a revenue intelligence platform, announced to its users on Monday that the company is shutting down.

Through Nudge.ai, the two founders (CEO and CTO, respectively) developed a customer relationship management (CRM) platform that combined the most complete account-level dataset with AI to identify gaps in stakeholder relationships.

According to Crunchbase, Nudge.ai has raised $6.5 million CAD overall, all of which came from a seed round raised in 2016.

In the letter that thanked customers, investors, and employees for making Nudge.ai possible, the co-founders stated, “we pushed hard, we built interesting things, we wrestled with tough decisions, we fought for victories and overcame setbacks.

Ultimately, we didn’t make it, but we had the opportunity to try, and for that we are deeply thankful.”Developing… | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579557609.3209689/Toronto-startup-Nudge.ai-is-shutting-down?ref=audio_experience