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Are you right for the venture capital business? Guy (Kawasaki) has created an aptitude test, Venture Capital Aptitude Test (VCAT). http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/11/the_venture_cap.html The main points:- Part I: Work Background What is your background? * Engineering (add 5 points) * Sales (add 5 points) * Management consulting (subtract 5 points) * Investment banking (subtract 5 points) * […]

From http://www.startupnation.com/pages/keymoves/teenage-entrepreneur.asp?src=nw Company – http://switchpod.com Founders: Weina Scott and Jake Fisher Location: Miami Beach, Fla. (Weina); Rochester, Minn. (Jake) Year Founded: 2005 Initial Capitalization: $50 Sold For : $200,000 Weina Scott and Jake Fisher’s Story: Even among startups with cut-to-the-bone budgets, the creation and launch of Weina Scott’s and Jake Fisher’s podcast hosting company was […]

A long, scary and data-laden argument that the real estate market in the US is headed for a crash – with worldwide recessionary effects (though particularly nasty in the US itself). This is likely to be exacerbated by the fact that crude oil prices are likely to face upward pressure in the near/middle term too. […]

An interesting article analyzing data from Alexa. On a world radar India hardly shows up today and this article also talks about growth in South America, China, Korea but does not mention India. My view is that with developments such as the Reliance ( Anil Ambani Group) raising a $5 billion fund for investments in […]

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Alok’s prior post about quality startup analysis got me thinking about what resources are available to help guide entrepreneurs. MIT (full disclosure, MIT is my alma mater) has posted the material for several of its courses online. The material for a few of the entrepreneurship classes are posted at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/index.htm Hope people find the information […]

I have always wondered who makes the government websites. Now look at this: SAKSHAT – a “Complete Education Portal” inaugurated by our President and involves HRD ministry, Information ministry. The aim is to connect 50 crore Indians in next 5 years. I wonder what is the budget for this ambitious project. A few crores atleast? […]

CRV a major VC firm in the US has an angel funding program. Read more here. I am not sure what happens to the loan if the company does not manage to raise a Series “A” round. To me it is great that more choices are emerging for entrepreneurs. I continue working on a seed […]

As part of its Mobile VAS Connect event on December 12, 2006, Venture Intelligence is providing opportunity to select companies to showcase their technology products to an exclusive audience – consisting of Venture Capitalists, Investment Bankers and experienced entrepreneurs – in the form of demos.

Here is a post I wrote about joining pre-VC startups: http://sameerg.wordpress.com/2006/10/25/joining-a-pre-vc-startup/

Here’s an interesting – and sobering – report by insurance giant Allianz and the World Wildlife Fund which basically says that that the insurance industry needs to do more to address the growing impact of climate change-induced damages — and the resulting insurance claims. We’re going to see much, MUCH more of this in the […]