• Apple reclaimed the title of the world’s most valuable company $415B vs Exxon Mobil’s $413B (Yahoo Finance) • The $97.6 billion in cash that $AAPL has is higher than the market value of 448 of the companies in the S&P 500. (Capital IQ) • This was the 2nd highest profit quarter of any company […]
ETNow Venture Capital outlook for 2012
Interesting panel moderated by Sudhir, Discusses 2011 and the emergence of ecommerce, other investment themes in tech enabled businesses, exit expectations and where we are headed.
Acquisition of an online bus booking site
If anyone wants to dilute majority stake in a revenue earning online bus booking site please get in touch vikaschandrashah@yahoo.com .Acquirer wants the target entrepreneur to continue run the business.Acquirer has other bigger plans to club bus booking with airline tickets and prepaid mode of selling.
Co-working Space in Gurgaon
Is there anyone in the startup community in gurgaon – having co-working space for a 2-5 member team? Couldnt get much information elsewhere, but hoping to get a response on venturewoods. You can reach me at theravishankar@gmail.com. Thanks a ton and a wish a very happy new year 2012 for the startup community!!
Canaan announces fund IX
Canaan is pleased to announce its ninth fund – a $600M global early stage tech oriented fund. We will continue to invest in healthcare and IT, and across US, Israel and India. Details here.
India Venture 2012 – What’s Ahead?
Happy 2012 to all readers. 2011 has been an eventful year for venture capital in India – perhaps a record year in terms of overall volume of financing. More importantly, traditional growth equity firms stepped in and provided later stage support to venture backed companies, which augers well for entrepreneurs and venture industry. While in […]
TSC Resident Grant Awarded to Two Resident Graduates
LightSpeed Ventures (http://www.lightspeedvp.com/) is awarding a Grant of 2.5L Each for two of the graduates of the TSC Resident Programme. Over the past six months two teams have graduated successfully, building teams, building that initial social proof and model, and already eliciting interest in fund raising.Out of the Collaboration between The Startup Centre and Lightspeed […]
Isn’t it about time You Gave your Idea a Chance?
The Third Edition of In50hrs is here. December 9 – 11, 2011 In50Hrs is a Weekend Hackathon where people with Ideas, Developers, and Designers get together to give life to ideas and have working prototypes before the weekend is out, present it to a room full of like-minded folks, and perhaps pave the way for […]
Angel Investors’ Roundtable
Canaan hosted an angel investor roundtable on sidelines of Nasscom Emerge event in Bangalore last month. Key observations: Financing pyramid and implications: It seems that angels perceive an increasing cycle to get to next round of (VC) financing.This is increasing the load on angel investors, as well as potentially increasing the risk. Some angel investors […]
Call from JFDI Asia
Heard about Y-combinator or TechStars? Well now there’s JFDI.Asia. We are the first TechStars Network member in South East Asia. We will select 15 startups to join us in Singapore in January 2012 for the JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp. Each startup will receive S$15,000 in seed funding in exchange for equity. These startups will undergo 100 […]
Did India get too arrogant about growth?
Rupee touched a long time low yesterday. For all the talk about “no intervention”, the worry marks are visible amongst regulators. More importantly, for all the talk about “global factors” that are leading to this fall, one can’t miss the fact that Rupee is the worst performing major currency against dollar in recent times. And […]
Name our favorite ecosystem initiative
Wanted to get a sense of the audience – which ecosystem initiative do you find most useful. Is it the TiE mentoring, or nasscom emerge blog? or pluggdin events? or yourstory showcase? or medianama analysis? And what are the gaps – specific ones? What specific service would prompt you to take 2 hours out and […]