Month: May 2005

Will Price reports from Microsoft’s VC Summit in Mountain View on what MSFT – according to its CEO Steve Ballmer – looks for when it considers acquiring a company: *…

Will Price reports from Microsoft’s VC Summit in Mountain View on how MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer does not carry a Blackberry or a cell phone during the work day. He…

Seth Levine of Mobius VC has a few tips for MBAs and wannabee MBAs keen to join the Venture Capital/Private Equity industry: Understand the math. The partners are quite literally…

Recently, we have tracked several appointments and movements in the Indian VC/PE industry in our Venture Intelligence India newsletters. There has been a lot of churn at India-based firms as…

Howard Anderson’s article in Technology Review magazine on why he belives the VC business – at least, the IT-focused part – is no longer a great one is attracting a…

Stephen Castellano has a post on which elements of US equity research can be outsourced to India: While I do not think every function within equity research can be outsourced,…

Jeff Clavier posts on Microsoft’s annual meeting with Silicon Valley VCs in their “own backyard”: Every year, Microsoft hosts a VC Summit involving 100+ Microsoft senior executives and 200+ venture…

Venture Intelligence India is the Blog of the Day for May 19 at BlogStreet India. Not sure how this works, but am nevertheless happy to note from their profile information…

The efforts by Silicon Valley Bank and TiE in 2004, in bringing a long line of US VCs to visit India, are bearing fruit in 2005 as actual investments in…

New Vernon Capital, a New Jersey based fund founded by former Merrill Lynch global executive VP Arshad Zakaria, has stepped up its investments in India. In May, the fund’s Mauritus…