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Entrepreneurship Week India from Feb 5th to 12th

From the 5th to the 12th February 2011, students of Entrepreneurship Cells (E Cells) at 30 NEN member academic institutes in Bangalore will engage in E Week India 2011 – the high energy week-long campaign to build awareness and inspire public support for entrepreneurship. A week of exciting and unusual activities will be conducted by […]

Entrepreneurs and VCs can use Innovation Engineering

Yes.Entrepreneurs and VCs can use Innovation Engineering. Entrepreneurs to understand the needs, design, implement, validate/verify and evolve/revolutionize Innovation. VCs to validate/verify and revalidate/reverify Innovation of their portfolio and future portfolio companies. More on Innovation Engineering is here:http://3innovate.net/innoengineering.htm and here http://www.facebook.com/innoengineering

VC Turned Entrepreneur: 3 Lessons Learned

Before joining the entrepreneur scene, I was a VC at Canaan Partners where my primary job was diligence-ing new deals.  It was great practice for running my own startup, SkillSlate, a website that allows people to find & hire independent service professionals.  However, I’ve learned that no amount of VC experience can fully prepare someone to be […]

Onion Rs65/kg, Petrol Rs65/litre, Beer Rs65!

Very interesting perspective from an analyst from IDFC. Thought to share – these are Mumbai (Maharashtra prices) “Onion Rs65/kg, Petrol Rs65/litre, Beer Rs65!” For the first time in history, basic needs, life style needs, luxury needs are at the same price, prompting us to explore why basic needs like onions are so expensive. The visit: […]

Motorexchange raises second round financing

Motorexchange just announced their second round financing led by Epiphany. As early stage investors, its always an anticipated moment when your early investment goes out to raise their next round of capital. While at the initial investment, one would have bought into the team and the space, this is typically the first time there is […]

Cash,Visa,mobile or prepaid who will win

With reference to the growth of e-com in India ,now digital money is growing at the cost of liquid cash.This digital money could be a credit card (if it is credit card ,than all chances of it being visa) or a mobile cash.But even mobile transcactions are taking place thru credit cards.In India we do not see real mobile cash like the […]

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

We started this week’s roundtable with a discussion of the top 10 tech trends to watch for the upcoming decade. The trends include Cloud Computing, Outsourcing, Social Web, Vertical and Local Web, Smartphones and Tablets, Online Advertising, Online Video, Online Gaming, eBooks, and Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship. You can find details in the blog post on http://www.sramanamitra.com.  […]