Businessworld has a cover story on the new drug discovery partnerships being created between Indian life sciences firms and MNCs. Last week, Nicholas Piramal signed an agreement with the UK…
Based on his impressions upon attending TiECon Delhi, Basab Pradhan feels India needs a unique model for the venture business. “VCs and entrepreneurs, who take a cookie-cutter approach to it,…
Guest post by Deepak Srinath: Mobile payments or m-payment are not new buzz in India; attempts at creating m-payment solutions go as far back as 1999 and has even seen…
Businessworld has a detailed cover story – here, here and here – on the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) business including the challenges of making money on these ventures. SEZ builders…
Businessworld has an article on Reliance Fresh, the Anil Ambani group’s venture into the neighbourhood convenience store business. Eleven stores were up and running by the end of last week…
Businessworld provides some interesting numbers about the market for children’s garments as part of an article on suiting specialist Raymond’s entry into this segment. The kids apparel market in India…
Businessworld has a short review of the financials of Info Edge, India’s first pure play online services company to go public. Info Edge, which gets most of its revenues and…
Economic Times’ Corporate Dossier supplement has a four-part feature on buyouts in India and how they initial few deals have fared. (Part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.)…
Business Today recently published an interview with Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz. I think American investors today understand that a lot of money has rushed into India and the shrewder American…
Anurag Gupta has analyzed the economics of the online travel services sector and the results are not very encouraging for the half-a-dozen VC-backed startups in this space. This will remain…