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Introducing – Startup Ecosystem

Reaching out to Venturewoods community to share an update from pluGGd.in Am glad to introduce the Indian startup ecosystem – a neutral entity that serves as a platform for startups to connect to other startups/VCs/entrepreneurs etc. We launched the startup directory around 5 months back and based on the feedback we received from users , we have revamped the […]

“Something is wrong in Venture Capital”

An interesting presentation from Adeo Ressi, founder of TheFunded: TheFunded – Canarie I’m not sure this is specific to the VC industry – the same thing happens in PE, hedge funds and other managed asset sectors. Money goes to those who don’t need it. How much of this is relevant to India? I don’t mean […]

Rediff Enterprise Value $24M

Interesting coverage on rediff – its now at $24M enterprise value. As much as for a long time, Rediff commanded high valuations that few could explain, it now seems to have gone in the other direction. Would love to get people’s views on whats happening here. As a bellwether for Indian internet industry, these numbers […]

Bill Gates in Delhi – Nov 6th, 2008- Opening wallets to Fund Research

I attended Mr.Bill Gates’ talk– heard some very interesting ideas from Mr.Gates about opening wallets for research on the world’s pressing problems. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is practically “giving away” US $100,000 grants to researchers based on 2-page summaries of innovative ideas. I didnt post the longer article/snaps in venturewoods- because I felt […]

India’s Hottest Startups

Some people may find it annoying, but I think I must write about this. Almost a month back, I received an Email from NEN for participating in the  hottest startup contest. I looked at the website and was impressed by the participation. What was annoying was the classification of a “startup”. I could see companies […]

Business Oriented Architecture

Once primary focus changed from building a product to selling it, i-Create was a different place. We realized that there was going to be no external funding that could help us spend some more time in the comfy confines of the lab and delay diving headlong into the competitive world that is Enterprise IT sales.  […]