I remember having had a discussion with batchmates triggered by an online article in 2005 when i was in my final year at college. The article predicted that big MNCs in India would find it more and more difficult to recruit and/or retain top talent in years to come. This, because of attractive offers from […]
8 Indian Startups
Red Herring Article
Exclusive Resorts -1
A need and an innovative solution to a difficult problem combined can provide the base for a large company. Exclusive Resorts was established in 2003 and appears to be doing quite well. The key value is in the real estate that this company owns. If an exclusive resort type option was available in India I […]
Tech Crunch/Edgeio
I became aware of this site site recently. It looks like a good place to find out about new stuff around Web 2.0. The editor of Tech Crunch Michael Arrington has an interesting background. I am pretty low tech but what I liked about tech cruch was that I was able to add Tech crunch […]
Joining Canaan Partners
Wish to announce that Canaan Partners (pronounced K-nun) is opening their office in India, and I will be heading that up. Canaan is an early stage investment firm, and focusses on IT and Healthcare technologies. I am pretty encouraged that the Canaan Partnership is keen to share their learnings and experiences of over 19 years […]
Venture Investing – Momentum versus Value
The merits of value investing, especially in public markets, have been long espoused — thats the stuff legends are made of in that domain. Even late stage private equity follows largely the same route. Venture investing, on the other hand, is all about having the right momentum — how fast can you go from no […]
Insanity
I see plans where there is no company, a one man army. There are obviously no customers and no revenues. There is a spreadsheet which shows an exit valuation of $50MM. The entrepreneur wants to raise $1.4 MM and is prepared to invest the princely sum of $10,000 including money from friends and family. Obviously […]
Distance Education
Professor Mehta a member of the Knowledge Commission resigned in protest on quotas/reservations in educational institutions. His open letter to the Prime Minister is circulating on email and I read it on a Yahoo Group for my batch from IIM Ahmedabad. My response to that mail is quoted below as some of you may find […]
TieCon Silicon Valley – Videos
Silicon Valley had its TieCon couple of weeks back. Wahindia brings its coverage on the event. Would particularly recommend Shashi Thuroor’s one-on-one interview where he talks about the winds of globalization and its influence on cultures around the world.
Web 2.0 Lists
Incredible number of companies funded in the web 2.0 space. See this link
Kathy Sierra’s Take on Techies
It is humorous, and educative. Check it out. Other posts are also worth a read. I love the tactful useage black and white images from yore.
Instep Gartner Trends
Alok talked of out of step entrepreneurs. It is easy sitting in India to be instep. Towards that some technology trends mentioned by Gartner 1. Commoditization & consumerisation – makes tech more affordable 2. Virtualization & Tera Architechtures – Granular components that find each other and self assemble into a computing resource 3. Software Delivery […]