Paymate, Ji Grahak or mChq: Take your pick
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…
SEZ: Sizzle or fizzle?
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…
First cut view of Reliance’s retain plans
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…
The kids wear market
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…
Naukri by numbers
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…
Buyouts feature in Corporate Dossier
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.)…
Mike Moritz interview to Business Today
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…
Online travel portals: Can we hear the crash already?
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…
“Buyout firms aren’t cartelizing”
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…
Should you lead or follow?
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…