Hello all, Open Coffee Club at Bangalore is hosting its debut meet this Sunday ( 19th August 2007) at Brewhaha. Open Coffee Club is one of the small steps to develop an ecosystem in Bangalore for Entrepreneurs, VC’s, startup evangelists, other interested folks to meet and exchange thr thoughts. The meetup details are as follows […]
ChrysCapital sets up $1.25 bln India fund
The amount of money being raised by VC/PE players for the India market continues to spiral upwards. Here’s a news item from the Economic Times on ChrysCapital’s latest fund – which tops $1billion. Mauritius-based private equity firm ChrysCapital has set up a new fund to invest $1.25 billion in Indian companies in the infrastructure, technology, […]
Event Notification : 4th Meetup of Mobile Monday Delhi
Mobile Monday Delhi Chapter is going to have its 4th meetup on 18th of August . I would like to invite the readers of VW to participate in our meeting .We encourage you to be a part of this Event and share your thoughts with fellow mobile enthusiasts. Details of Event is given Below Mobile […]
Canaan leads investment in Techtribe
Make money by doing good! Very happy to announce our investment in Techtribe. Techtribe pioneers a professional community website, and aims to monetize the same through a referral based recruiting model. Whats more, it has an incentive model, where referrers can make Rs 10,000 for each successful referral they make. Indian e-recruiting market has not […]
Proto – The second coming
Just a quick post to see if anyone attended, and what they thought. I’ve been looking through the ones that made it, and reviewed the Internet ones over on my blog, and web apps like routeguru, were simply awesome. Having said that, I was a bit disappointed by the small volume, and also the quality, […]
The Druvaa Story
We started with a Data Replication and Disaster Recovery product for Asia Pacific SME market. Had a good start, built a solid team … and then got beaten down by Angels/VCs & some market “veterans”. Thanks to a lot of guys (specially some on venturewoods) who advised, We decided to go ahead and pooled in […]
The Proto Team in Delhi: This Saturday
Proto has been discussed in this forum in various forms, and titles, and I have always enjoyed hearing the feedback that this community has to offer – as this community very much forms the crux and the core of the ecosystem that we are aiming to build. Here’s perhaps a chance to have that same […]
Mobile Monday Delhi May 26, 2007
Coverage, comments and rants about Mobile Monday Delhi, Saturday May 26, 2007.
VC boom in Russia?
BW piece on how the VC scene is hotting up in Russia: To encourage such investments, the Russian government has set up a trust that matches investments from private venture capitalists. Already, it has agreed to dispense nearly $100 million to three groups of investors. Among them: Asset Management, run by legendary Silicon Valley venture […]
Internet bootcamp for consumer marketing professionals
Canaan and TiE are organizing an event for consumer marketing professionals in packaged goods, media, financial services, telecom and other such consumer industries – people who might be interested in entrepreneurship but don’t know where to start. Specific focus is on internet related opportunities. If you can think of people you know who might be […]
Next Second Life Tour 5 PM May 11
Well, the first tour was, um, interesting. Hadn’t really prepared an itenerary, so the people who came had to drift around aimlessly for a bit. My bad 🙂 This time around, there are a few interesting places we’ll be visiting, as well as a couple of necessary preliminaries. We’ll begin with a (very) brief orientation […]
Mobile Monday Delhi : 3rd Meet Up
I am Very excited to inform you that we are going to have next meeting of Mobile Monday Delhi Chapter on 26th of May . We invite you to be a part of this Event and share your thoughts with fellow mobile enthusiasts. Details of Event is given Below Mobile Monday Delhi THEME : Mobile […]