Month: November 2006

Recent months have witnessed large buyouts in the US (like in the case of Harrah’s, HCA and Univision) where there was only one bidder – in the form of a…

At a time when we are witnessing several follow-on financing rounds in India, Fred Wilson has an post on why his firm prefers to be the lead investor in the…

Morgan Stanley’s Internet analyst Mary Meeker presented an update to her “State of the Internet” presentation at the Web 2.0 conference earlier this week. I had linked to her 2005…

Business Today has a detailed and well researched feature on top performing sectors within the Indian manufacturing industry. There are a handful of industries in India that have begun to…

In the wake of the YouTube acquisition, Economic Times has a feature on Indian online social networking startups and their prospects. Sources say six other start-ups are looking to join…

Business Today has an article on online real estate-focused classified sites like 99acres, magicbricks, indiaproperties, etc. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture Intelligence, which tracks private equity and venture…

Businessworld has a profile of buy-and-turnaround specialist Pawan Ruia. A merchant banker by profession (he is a chartered accountant and has also studied cost accountancy, company secretaryship and law), he…

Knowledge@Wharton reports on an academic study “Financing Firms in India”. The study…challenges the conventional wisdom among academics and public policy experts that corruption automatically impedes economic advancement of developing countries,…

Businessworld has a cover story based on a survey of 5,485 young people surveyed across 15 Indian cities such as Kochi, Jaipur or Bangalore. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of…

Businessworld has a short profile of NTrust, a provider of outsourcing services to US Real Estate companies. NTrust, floated in 2002, has built a $12 million business in the lease…