Profile of Virgin Comics
The Mint has a profile of Virgin Comics Llc., a company co-founded by former MTV executive Sharad Devarajan and Gotham Chopra (and backed by author Deepak Chopra, filmaker Shekhar Kapur…
“Indian telcos need to be valued differently”
Randall L. Stephenson, Chairman & CEO of AT&T Inc., in an interview to Business Today: People keep missing this market. They keep evaluating the market using old traditional ways of…
An Ethiopian red carpet for horticulture cos.
Business Today has an interesting article on Indian horticulture firms find it more attractive to grow in this African country. For Dr Reddy, it was a journey from red tape…
Funding microfinance firms
Business Standard columnist Key Sarkar has an interesting piece on the experience of funds like Bellwether, Unitus and Lok Capital which fund microfinance companies. One of the big realisations Bellwether…
Why did Wipro buy Infocrossing?
The $600 million buyout of the US IT services firm is the biggest acquisition by an IT firm by a long shot and very different from Wipro’s earlier “tuck in”…
Why are VCs arrogant?
In a posting on the rising popularity of VC Rating site thefunded.com, Jeff Bussgang explains why. Why are VCs often arrogant? Is that what they teach us at VC breeding…
The investment banking boom in numbers
Business Today has a cover story on booming business of investment banking. So how much exactly are promoters willing to fork out for I-banking advice and deal execution? Ravi Sardana,…
Catering start-ups that are going places
Businessworld columnist Rashmi Bansal profiles two start-ups that are creating waves delivering quality lunches to office goers. Not unexpectedly, the article is titled “The New Age Dabbawalas”. Mom’s Kitchen’s USP…