Mobile Monday Delhi Chapter (MoMo Delhi) is having it’s seventh meetup on “Mobile Location Based Services” on coming Saturday – 11th July 2009. The event will highlight key events, innovative products/services and challenges in the LBS space in India. Distinguished speakers in LBS including Mr Ashutosh Pande Managing Director, SiRF Technology (India) Pvt. Limited, Mr […]
Facebook Announces Developer Contest for India
New Delhi, India, July 3, 2009: The day for which the Indian developer community had been waiting has finally arrived. Facebook, whose mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected, announced today the launch of ‘Facebook India Developer Contest’ – a contest for Indian developers to […]
Support for Green Businesses
New Ventures India inviting business plans from green entrepreneurs for its 2009 cycle Eco-entrepreneurs should hurry and submit their business plan to the following email addresses: hemant.nitturkar@cii.in or vamshi. krishna@cii.in Upon short-listing, twenty potential green companies will receive special mentoring from a team of experts. They will then be showcasing their business proposal and pitching […]
LUCK? RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME? DIVINE INTERVENTION?
We hear all the time about the amount of money that’s available to fund startups. For example, that private equity funds invested over $ 3.3 billion in just the first 3 calendar months of the current year. That VCs are always looking out for good deals as most of the plans they see merit little […]
Governance
GOVERNANCE Sanjay AnandaramThe young founders of the young company looked happy. They had just finished a long meeting with a top class candidate for CEO of one of their soon-to-be-launched businesses. They had decided to bring on board seasoned professionals to help them achieve their long term goal of building a nationally admired and respected […]
BUZZ WORD COMPLIANCE
BUZZWORD COMPLIANCE Sanjay Anandaram A friend narrated this to me this morning. He was on a business trip to Taiwan and bumped into a colleague from a much larger division of the same company at Taipei airport. After exchanging some chit-chat, the colleague told my friend that he was likely to be now based out of […]
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Sanjay Anandaram Julius Caesar the great Roman emperor divorced his wife Pompeia as heconsidered his honour and position compromised because Pompeia was indirectly associated with a trial for sacrilege. He explained that his wife should not only be free from sin but from suspicion. Given the state of our political system, this […]
INDIAN CRICKET NEEDS A KERRY PACKER
INDIAN CRICKET NEEDS A KERRY PACKER! Sanjay Anandaram That cricket is a religion in India is a cliché. That cricket exists as an “international†sport largely because of India is a fact. More people, perhaps, play cricket in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park than there are first class cricketers in Australia. Yet how is it that the […]
ENTREPRENEURIAL MBA?
ENTREPRENEURIAL MBA? Sanjay Anandaram An increasing number of universities and colleges are offering courses in  “Entrepreneurship†as part of their business education. Around the world, business plan competitions are held by academic institutions at regular intervals. The wide publicity given to “entrepreneurship†in recent times has resulted in entrepreneurs gaining respect and being acknowledged as […]
DIVERSITY IN HIRING
One of the things that intrigued me when I visited a startup recently was the amazing conformity and homogeneity on display. Most of the team members were from a particular community, from a particular part of the country, had studied in the same set of colleges and had worked in similar roles in similar companies […]
Marc Andreessen raises $300MM for early stage investments
Very interesting news. In this climate of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, noted entrepreneur Marc Andreessen (who led the development of the first web browser and co-founded Netscape, among other things) and Ben Horowitz have raised 300 million dollars for early stage investments: Sources said the fund–which was nicknamed “Project A†but is actually called Andreessen […]
Entrepreneur-Board Dynamics
ENTREPRENEUR-BOARD DYNAMICS Sanjay Anandaram  You’re delighted to have successfully raised capital. You can now execute the plan and grow the business. One of the first things you do is hire senior sales and marketing people. You negotiate their compensation with them and are about to issue an employment contract. Then you remember that you’re […]