Businessweek has published its list of 30 all time great entrepreneurs. Despite the obvious bias of 90% of the people being from America, it does force one to think of the most impactful innovations and businesses over last 300 years. Its interesting that the first entry is an admiral, circa 1400 AD. Its also interesting […]
Incredible Gizmoz
Check this out guys! I found it great – perfect for friday afternoon, and perhaps for my secondlife avatar. If you are still thinking why I am doting my animation, all I had to do was to upload a picture of mine and this got done automatically Express Yourself with Gizmoz Video Clips
Bird of Gold
McKinsey recently published its study on growth in income and spending of Indian consumer over next twenty years. It provides a great directional view of where the growth is, and where we might find ourselves in 10-20 years. Interesting read.
Strategic Investors – When and how
With the flurry of venture money pouring into India, the other class of investors that are equally upbeat is strategic investors and corporates. I have met a few entrepreneurs who have received “investment offers” from these investors, and especially in absence of any pure financial offers, the option seems compelling — “they will put in […]
Internet bootcamp for consumer marketing professionals
Canaan and TiE are organizing an event for consumer marketing professionals in packaged goods, media, financial services, telecom and other such consumer industries – people who might be interested in entrepreneurship but don’t know where to start. Specific focus is on internet related opportunities. If you can think of people you know who might be […]
Canaan leads investment in iYogi
I am happy to share that Canaan Partners and SVB have invested $3.1m in iYogi. iYogi provides multi-vendor desktop support to consumers and SMBs around the globe, using delivery capability in India. We have spoken in the past about the way Indian BPO industry is evolving (here and here), and one of the key aspects […]
Rebuttal – Social Networking a Waste of Time in India?
Just saw this article from Avnish, Matrix Partners. Avnish, I know you are around somewhere on venturewoods, so please do participate in this friendly discussion! A followup would be unnecessary if I agreed with this statement. However, I must say that I myself do believe that the “kids hanging out” variety of social networks are […]
The team is the clincher
The venture world always seems to be driven by transactions — here’s a little bit on the ideological plane of venture investing. Interesting read…
Informal getto in Bangalore
Hi, some of us — mostly entrepreneurs — are getting together in bangalore tomorrow for a beer. Other folks who are interested are invited. No specific agenda, just some chat around beer. Time: 29th Mar (3.30 – 5.00 pm) Venue: Pecos — situated at Rest House Road, off Brigade Road, right hand side, Black board, […]
Viral Marketing & Social Networking
India finally seems to be responding to viral marketing. After Orkut that seems to have taken off on back of viral marketing, last month Tagged.com showed a brilliant run (globally, but in India as well – its Alexa 33 for India already) on back of suck-email-addresses-and-send-invites functionality. Some of the local social networking sites also […]
Canaan Partners update
Kamla Bhatt has posted an interview providing an update on Canaan Partners’ activities in India. Read on…
Above Average – Book promotion
A recent entrepreneur asked me for help to promote his product. Interesting background — IIT Delhi, now a professor there, and has written this book (“ah! not another iitian book” — no, this guy has some mettle!) Above Average is the story of a middle-class Delhi boy with an aptitude for science and math but […]