Google sells stake in Baidu
For every reasonably famous (as against “successful”) online services business model in the US, there is a copycat being created – and venture capital funded – in China. I’m however…
Tim Draper, UBS are LPs in PE fund run by Utah Univ. students
From the Press Release: The University Venture Fund (UVF) announced today it has achieved a final closing of $18 million in funding, an unprecedented amount of capital for a student-run…
John Doerr interviews Thomas Friedman on the Energy Crisis
KPCB’s John Doerr interviews Thomas Friedman (of “The World is Flat” fame) on the Energy Crisis, its impact and potential solutions. Quite riveting stuff. Hat tip: Paul Kedrosky Arun Natarajan…
Recommendations for catalyzing early-stage capital formation
Stanford’s Rafiq Dossani and TiE-SV’s Asawari Desai have published a research report titled “Accessing Early-Stage Risk Capital in India”that aims to identify causes and recommend improvements for the lack of…
Khosla walking the talk with Ethanol
So far, Vinod Khosla has done a lot of deep thinking and powerful talking about using Ethanol to “replace all our (America’s) oil imports and become the centre of our…
First Round Capital
When it comes to clarity of positioning to entrepreneurs, true early-stage firms in India (ie, Rs. Lakhs rather than $ Million investors) would do well to look at the web…
How VCs can apportion time among their cos.
Howard Morgan has a post on how he manages his own time (“by far the scarcest resource”) between the various companies he invests in. I recommend keeping a sorted list…
Is a Silicon Valley likely to happen in India?
Paul Graham has a couple of great essays on how other cities and countries could replicate Silicon Valley: 1. The first one, How to be Silicon Valley basically says that…
“No choice but to revert to nuclear energy”
Peter Wagner, General Partner at Accel Partners, believes the US has no real alternative except to revert to nuclear energy. Speaking at a panel on “The VC Forecast” at the…
“India has the fourth largest Internet user base”
Or is it the 10th largest? Depends on who you ask. According to the Computer Industry Almanac, India was in fourth place with 50.6 million Net users (and a 4.7%…