Just to tell all those who are interested that I’ll be launching an exhibition of my analog and digital art in the virtual world of Second Life. The exhibition launches on 21 July, and goes on for a month. It is being hosted by the Second Life library on Info Island. All those who are […]

Hi all, certain comments posted on venturewoods have been brought to my notice. These were personally disparaging to certain parties, and came from anonymous/unreachable people. While those remarks have been taken off, I would request the community to exercise due responsibility in using the platform.

Folks, thanks for the comments and questions both on the blog and that were sent to me through email. I do appreciate the feedback and it is always welcome. I decided to answer the questions in a post as opposed to a comment and hope that is appropriate. There were 4 main questions 1. Does […]

from ET: CISCO Capital, the technology financing arm of Cisco Systems, is planning to raise a second India dedicated fund worth $200-250 million. The company, which provides easy financing solutions to companies like LG and Symphony Services, has already infused $110 million out of its first $150 million India fund. “Though the first fund was […]

After my last company was acquired, I found the time to look at the world around and I was quickly came to realize that it’s a perfect time to start a company. Traditionally startups have required teams of 15-20, two+ years and millions of dollars before they have their first hundred users. There was a […]

As per alexa, China top 50 sites has only three global companies in there – Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live/MS – rest all seem to be Chinese companies. By contrast, India top 50 includes Google/Orkut, Yahoo, MSN/Live/MS as well as sites like youtube, blogger, rapidshare, wikipedia, tom(!), megaupload, monsterindia, xboard, facebook, screensavers, ebay, starware, digitalpoint, imdb, flickr, […]

There have been numerous good blogs and discussions on the Web 2.0 or other Internet/media opportunities in India. I’ve tried to create a more formal categorization of consumer facing Internet companies, based on the value they provide to the users and their role in the value chain. I believe the (at least short-term) prospects of […]

This seems to be buzzword in today’s web 2.0 scenario. We could see the mushrooming of social networking sites that are positioned for college goers, women, old age people, and may be to gay and lesbian (I’m not sure on this). These sites provide tremendous opportunity for people to find new friends, enjoy time with […]

Highly successful entrepreneurs and angel investors including N. S. Raghavan of Nadathur Holdings (and co-founder of Infosys), Dr. Prakash Mutalik of RelQ (which was acquired recently by EDS), Rajiv Mody of Sasken (a successful publicly-listed company) and K. Ganesh of TutorVista (who earlier co-founded BPO firm CustomerAsset and angel invested in KPO firm Marketics) share […]

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 […]

If you look into newspapers and websites of any journal from United States you won’t miss the word I-phone. Believe me, there are more than 100 articles that was written by technology experts, Apple lovers and others in this business. Would it become a hit? Million dollar question. But it’s easy to answer. It’s going […]