After the first 4 pieces, Preface, MIT India: Engineering Education, Urja: Global Fashion Brand, and Lucid: K-12 Education, here are two new ones: Darjeeling: A Tea Lounge Brand and Renaissance: A Heritage Holidays Brand. Hope you enjoy these, and also, do let me know what concepts *you* would like to see explored in the Vision […]
Q1 2008 | India VC Deals
VentureSource has published a news article on VC activity in India for the period Jan – Mar 2007 “Venture capital firms invested $98.9 million in 16 Indian companies in the first quarter, a fraction of the year-ago period but about steady with the quarterly pace of 2007, according to data released today by VentureSource. It’s […]
Need for PR
Does startups need the help of PR folks in taking the product/service to the mainstream ? YESÂ NOÂ Discussion continues here
Mobile devices will rule in the next 5 years
The Churchill Club’s annual Top 10 Tech Trends Dinner discussion post is here.  The panel has some cool VCs in it. The post has important predictions and some cool factoids In Europe, cell phones are 8% of credit card payments Projectors in cell phones in next two years. More than one camera per cell phone About 90% of all […]
TiE Canaan Challenge | Deadline Extension
Hi – Last date for submitting entries for TiE Canaan Challenge has been extended to 25th May. We are seeing a good response. Also, CNBC TV18 has been roped in to feature the Winners and the working of Challenge in three series. Regards, Mukul
Trips
A nice little stat to chew on a sunday morning.   PS : “Transit” refers to Public/mass transit systems.
Two Entrepreneur Interviews: Deepak Shenoy of Moneyoga and Girish Sara...
I recently did two interviews with two very different but passionate entrepreneurs: Deepak Shenoy, co-founder of Moneyoga and Dr. Girish Saraph of Vegayan Systems. Over the past year or so I have spent a fair amount of time talking to both of them and have followed their journey as entrepreneurs. Deepak and I have spoken […]
Sustainable ?
From the news today (sorry, no link) Reliance Industries has shut all of its 1,432 petrol pumps in the country after sales dropped to almost nil as it could not match the subsidized price offered by public sector players. The company owned less than 3% of the 36,936 petrol pumps in the country. Of the […]
Vision India 2020: Preface
This is a new series in which I invite readers to take a journey with me into the future through the minds of multiple entrepreneurs, who by addressing the opportunities I see today, will perhaps shape the future of India. But in this series, we will close our eyes, and exist in this future, and […]
Top management recruiting
Businessweek has a nice refresher on recruiting top management. While it primarily seems to be written for large companies, the lessons are equally relevant to startups. Of course, there are some additional points one needs to keep in mind when recruiting for startups: Sell a personal vision – not just of where the company wants […]
plugHR proves concept
One year down the launch of commercial model of plugHR in April 2007, chasing a million dollar first year dream, plugHR proved the concept by reaching almost half of targetted numbers. So HR can be delivered through autoserve platform, is what some two dozen CEOs experienced with plugHR managers driving their HR strategies in a […]
TiE Canaan Challenge | Funding and Cash Award
Since we have announced the launch of TiE Canaan second edition; I have received multiple queries on: Why no cash awards? and Why no funding for winners? Funding issue is more loud and clear. I thought to share what we thought while deciding for awards: 1.) We should understand that a platform as open as […]