This should be of primary interest to entrepreneurs in Mumbai/Pune who view making lives of seniors in India easier as an attractive business opportunity. As a family ( my father, brother and me) our interest is in backing entrepreneurs who want to attack this space. We have put together a one pager that details 1. […]
Bridge Online- IIT Club
Poker Online etc. have become big. Bridge is tough as if money is involved cheating is a hard nut to crack. I used to play on the MSN zone site but they had plans to close it so I moved onto BridgeBase. This is an interesting site where the money games are with 2 humans […]
Multinational Startups
This article from Business 2.0 is interesting. Conventional wisdom is that a single location is very important for a startup and I think getting a multinational operation going for a startup is not easy. The advantages are numerous and it is nice to read about people who have made it work. I recently read about […]
First time enterpreneurship
This articles page has a set of really good articles and advise for first time enterpreneurs. The first time I found this I was up all night reading as many articles as I can ( while watching a late night football world cup match) Enjoy folks!
CDN/ Hosting
Techcrunch has become one of my favorite sights to browse when I have time to kill. From there I found that Limelight Networks has raised $130MM in funding and is one of the leading content delivery networks. CDN for iTunes is Akamai and for You Tube it is Limelight. For hosting EV1 is a sponsor […]
40 turns 50 in 4
A company that my brother cofounded just got acquired for around $50 million in cash. It had 40 employees and found a use for some cool technology that they developed in providing a Zero Touch Fraud detection solution. This year revenues were around $3-$4 million and next year may touch $10 million. I think they […]
Being Entrepreneurial
R.Madhusudan sent me this link. I found this to be a very good article on the difference between entrepreneurial thinking and traditional approaches. As an advisor I try to stimulate entrepreneurial thinking. If you read this and are able to put it in practice then your odds of success are likely to be higher. Thank […]
Mobile Monday Delhi
We are organising Mobile Monday (MoMo for short) – a meetup for mobile enthusiasts from every sphere of the mobile ecosystem like telecom companies, content aggregators, VAS providers, application developers etc. It’s a day long event and would bring in people from diverse backgrounds followed by presentations, demos and interactive sessions. MoMos have been quite […]
Generation Rest
This article amused me so I thought I would share it with you all. Today’s Hindustan Times has a front page article “No time for homework. Outsource it to Aunt Kaur”. For Rs. 350 you get your summer school project delivered to your doorstep in three hours. Guaranteed grade of B+ or higher. A detailed […]
Pentaho Receives $8M in Series B Funding
Leading Venture Capital Firms Invest in an Accelerated Growth Plan for The World’s Most Popular Open Source BI Suite Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular Open Source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced that it has received an additional $8M in funding in order to further fuel its accelerated growth. Pentaho’s existing investors, […]
Of Capital, Fear and Diet
Michael Sikorsky of Cambrian House a Crowd Sourced software play has written an interesting post, Raising capital: Six tips on Eating Fear. Interesting observations include: Most investors invest emotionally and then justify their decisions rationally. … You could have the most amateur answers in the world for how your business is going to operate and […]
Remembering Arun Kumar
Arun Kumar, President and MD, Flextronics Software, and a great inspiration for the techpreneur community in India/US passed away in San Diego, USA on July 7, 2006. While the details of how a routine checkup, and an angioplasty became a threat to his life are still unclear, it just reminds us how fragile life really […]