What is the name of KPCB’s India fund?
Answer to this quick quiz question: “Murugan Capital”!! Don’t beleive me? Check out IPO filing of KPCB’s first Indian portfolio company, InfoEdge India (which operates Naukri.com), for confirmation. Here is…
Podcast with Mahesh Murthy
Kamla Bhatt has a podcast with Seed Fund founder Mahesh Murthy. In this podcast interview Mahesh talks about VC funding trends and investment opportunities in India. Seed Fund recently closed…
Mary Meeker’s game changers
Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker’s presentation at the Stanford business school provides an overview of Internet and Technology industry trends including a lot of interesting data and analysis. Mary…
Trends in Indian Retail
Business Today has a report on the state of Indian retail and emerging trends in the industry. REAL ESTATE AND MALL ECONOMICS Biyani paid a cool Rs 250 crore to…
ICICI Bank’s “branchless” rural thrust
Business Today has a detailed article on ICICI Bank’s massive rural thrust using a franchisee model. This is a scaleable model,” says K.V. Kamath, Managing Director & CEO of the…
Google meets Dilbert
Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture Intelligence India, which tracks venture capital activity in India and Indian-founded companies worldwide. View sample issues of Venture Intelligence India newsletters and reports.
“Start-up capital is the greatest need in India”: John Doerr
In this WahIndia video John Doerr of KPCB, says during his recent trip to India it was very clear that there is huge shortage of start-up capital in the country.…
“Limited founder sales aligns VC, entrepreneur interests”
VC Jeff Bussgang provides more support to the idea that letting founders take “some money off the table” would align their interests better with their VC backers. Entrepreneurs typically have…
“It is good time to be an entrepreneur and tough to be a VC”
Mercury News has an interesting interview with former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel who recently joined with two other PayPal co-founders to launch the $50 million Founders Fund to invest in…