Results of VentureWoods 2008 India Venture Polls are out! Interesting findings: Activity is predicted to shift to areas that have been a “wait and watch” last year – mobile data services, ecommerce, online education, local language etc. It will be interesting to see if these remain at that stage or finally mature. A lot of […]

I think entrepreneurship is a fashion nowadays rather than being a passion. And there are many blogs, which add air to the wanna-be-entrepreneur feeling. We see the success of the other entrepreneurs but fail to see their struggle and how hard they have learnt from their failures. What we see on the blogs is which […]

Read Write Web has an interesting article on the state of innovation in India. I agree with most of what the author says in terms of transition over last ten years. Within the context of technology businesses, which is what the article focuses on, I am not sure of whether concept arbitrage theme (which is […]

Happy to kickoff some venture polls for 2008. Given how often VCs get it wrong, I thought I’d stay away from making predictions, and rather get the community view! survey software – Take Our Poll web surveys – Take Our Poll If you would like to run another venture poll, please go ahead!

All of you might have seen venturewoods in transition over past month or so. Thanks for bearing with us through a relatively slow upgrade effort. The key things we have been able to accomplish are: Transitioning to the latest wordpress system to provide us flexibility going forward Have author names on individual post pages, and […]

Subject: Go to Market Going to Market is always a big event for a startup and I am glad to report that we went live today at our pilot location with real money and a real bank. For about a month we will be controlled and will go into full pilot only after that. I […]

Jared Spool has an interesting article on top user experience challenges. They are: Scalability Visual Design Comprehension Interactivity Change Management The other gap I see very often is Site Speed. In my experience, speed makes a tremendous difference to how much a site gets used. What is your sense on readiness of India’s skill pool […]

Interesting presentation on facebook demographics and marketing case studies. Key points: 56% Female Only 46% in Professional jobs or Students – notice the shift here from earlier student-only position Demographics are shifting fast over time – interesting implications for marketeers Marketing is more a function of communication than advertising – engage with your audience – […]

Goldman Sachs just came out with a report on Tech VC trends – amongst the highlights, is (surprise, surprise!) the reduction in enterprise software investments, and increase in web/mobile and global (india/china) investments. It makes me wonder if these two put together create a blind spot for VCs. Enterprise automation in developing countries like India […]