Report on risk capital in India by Rafiq Dossani and Asawari Desai. Bunch of regulatory recommendations, but again goes on to stress that more operational people need to move in the VC business.
Research Results: On cultural differences between teams in US, India a...
Hi everyone, I would like to thank all of those who participated in the first phase of my research by answering my survey on cultural differences between US, Japan & Indian startups. For those who participated in the survey and of course, for the general enthusiastic crowd on this blog, I would like to offer […]
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Loved this site. Now I have to find a reliable unlimited broadband provider as otherwise my usage bills will skyrocket.
Fresh Talent & Startups
I remember having had a discussion with batchmates triggered by an online article in 2005 when i was in my final year at college. The article predicted that big MNCs in India would find it more and more difficult to recruit and/or retain top talent in years to come. This, because of attractive offers from […]
Tech Crunch/Edgeio
I became aware of this site site recently. It looks like a good place to find out about new stuff around Web 2.0. The editor of Tech Crunch Michael Arrington has an interesting background. I am pretty low tech but what I liked about tech cruch was that I was able to add Tech crunch […]
Venture Investing – Momentum versus Value
The merits of value investing, especially in public markets, have been long espoused — thats the stuff legends are made of in that domain. Even late stage private equity follows largely the same route. Venture investing, on the other hand, is all about having the right momentum — how fast can you go from no […]
Instep Gartner Trends
Alok talked of out of step entrepreneurs. It is easy sitting in India to be instep. Towards that some technology trends mentioned by Gartner 1. Commoditization & consumerisation – makes tech more affordable 2. Virtualization & Tera Architechtures – Granular components that find each other and self assemble into a computing resource 3. Software Delivery […]
Out of step entrepreneurs
Have been spending a lot of time here in bay area of late, and have been seeing a fair bit of startups here. One thing that strikes me is how naturally the “market knowledge” comes to the whole community, including the founders and investors. Some of the plans I see within India are out of […]
Company Board
Running/Leading a Board is a big challenge which often becomes worse when a VC joins the board. Entrepreneurs should put in the disciplines ahead of time Some tips from “Venturing Forward” 1. Successful board meetings are ones with no surprises – making decisions not trading information 2. Fiduciary responsibility is paramount 3. Controlled meeting 4. […]
Meetup at TieCon (Bay area)
I am going to be at the TiEcon SV later this week — would love to catch up if any of the venturewoods subscribers are there,
Microsoft Imagine Cup 2006
The finals of this global competition are being held in Delhi. See link. When I was in Citibank in India ( 1981-1989) I remember a couple of firms that are quite big to day getting started because Citibank agreed to be their first customers. Building on this thought it may be possible for the Band […]
Just in Time
Do most entrepreneurs in India prefer just in time capital raising and spending ? In my experience in Silicon Valley keeping a large capital cushion was considered quite important and after the initial proving stage, spending on say office space , key talent etc was done rapidly. The just in time approach minimizes dilution. I […]