Latest issue of Inc carries an article on Organic Entrepreneurship – the opportunities and challenges of supporting entrepreneurship beyond metros in India. Read on. Inc – organic entrepreneurship View more documents from Alok Mittal.
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How iYogi Got Its First Funding
Vishal from iYogi shares his perspective on what worked for them while raising their first round of financing from Canaan. Read on…
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Recent interview with TheDeal.com
I spoke recently to George White at TheDeal.com regarding the investment opportunities and exit expectations in the Indian market. See here. Indian tech companies head to public markets from The Deal on Vimeo.
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Omnivore Capital (OC): Weekly Office Hours [via Skype]
Subhadeep and I are starting weekly office hours online via Skype video conference calls (one or both of us will attend every week). Any entrepreneur or startup that is interested in agriculture and rural India can sign up for the office hour slots. You don’t have to pitch us – you can just ask us […]
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CC is Evil
Well not all, but some of it definitely is. To know why we say that, lets dig into why we CC people on emails in the first place: 1) The “You must know this CC” – There is nothing wrong with this one. Example: I direct a question to someone in the To list, and […]
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Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals
During today’s roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Two of them, Freshdesk and Bizosys (10Screens), are 1M/1M premium members, and we have already been working on their strategies for a few weeks. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk, a SaaS company that provides small and medium […]
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What makes a valuable company?
Great article on what creates a valuable company – while the article is rooted in a discussion around “revenue multiples”, the key characteristics it outlines seem generally true for valuable companies. Summary: 1. Sustainable competitive advantage 2. Network effects 3. Revenue visibility 4. Customer lock-in 5. Gross Margins 6. Marginal profitability/ Profit scalability 7. Customer […]
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Pioneering Spirit – Call for entries
Canaan is pleased to partner with Lufthansa in this year’s edition of Pioneering Spirit. Apply now!
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High-Octane Energy In Pune
On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event. Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Well, Persistent Systems and IncuCapital hosted a highly interactive and engaging session. Here are the companies that pitched at the […]
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Quigley Report – Predicting a Venture Capital Revival
An interesting report predicting that venture capital asset class will make a strong revival over next 10 years. Key reasons: public markets are finally rewarding value like never before (interesting information on IPO valuations and multiples of some iconic tech companies), the demand-supply equation within venture asset class has swung to being favorable with only […]
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Atish Babu Office Hours
Sorry for the short notice. Did not expect to have office hours this week, but had a few hours open tonight and decided to schedule it at the last moment. Let’s meet! Just posted new @Ohours for Sun, May 08 http://ohr.me/lDhZul
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1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network
On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). While in Mumbai, I also finalized a deeper partnership with IAN, which I will discuss later in this post. I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. After the event, I received an e-mail from […]
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