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VC Market Dynamics

Interesting article on some of the market dynamics in the global venture capital industry. The author points to some of the corrections that these long term dynamics are making to the model (such as super angels, survival of funds, founder liquidity etc). Central point – venture investing is a competitive market, and the model adapts […]

Early stage technology investing – analysis

Interesting discussion here on issues around early stage technology investing in India. Many valid issues that have been discussed there. I particularly like the perspective around “distribution” being a killer app in India – but more on that sometime later. Earlier this year, we analyzed the investments made by 11 early/growth funds in India (across […]

The Future of Search (Wall Street Journal)

It was Sunday and we were planning to go out for ice cream. I recalled someone talking about Cocoberry, a frozen yoghurt chain. I searched for “cocoberry” on Google and saw the link to Cocoberry’s page on Facebook. I visited the page and saw numerous comments by many of their satisfied customers. I could also see […]

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray And Pray

At today’s roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. I will describe their businesses briefly, below. You can vote on which one you like most by clicking on our Facebook page. If you missed the session, please listen to the recording before voting.  First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate, […]

Roar of the Cloud

Among a close group of friends in the Paas, SaaS and IaaS sector in India and a few members from the VC community, we have been talking for sometime about the need to come together to discover and support innovators working on new SaaS products/services. The challenge really is to democratize development and support the […]

UnPluGGD Nomination – Call for Startups.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am glad to share that Pluggd.in has announced the second edition of UnPluggd (Startup Event) in Bangalore on the 30th of October 2010. The first edition was phenomenally successful (do take a look at the videos) and the event is back with a big bang. This time, the event will have […]