Actis goes gaga on the Indian consumer boom
UK-based PE firm Actis’ India managers sing paens to the Indian consumer boom in the article for AltAssets. With 1,000 new cars a day crowding onto the streets of India,…
Is the media celebrating Silicon Valley VCs a bit too much?
This PEHub article on a man – “Anand Lyer Vaidyanathan” (persumably, Anand Iyer Vaidyanathan) – arrested for repeatedly tresspassing Seqouia Capital’s Sand Hill Road office seems to indicate as much.…
Sarbox and Private Equity
Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman pointed out how buy out firms are benefiting from Sarbanes Oxley regulations at the recent Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference. Knowledge@Wharton has an…
Speaker list for Internet & Mobile Connect – Mumbai, March 15
Over 15 leading VC investors and top executives from Online Services and Mobile VAS companies will be speaking at the event. The speaker list includes: Murugavel Janakiraman, Bharatmatrimony.com Alok Mittal,…
Should VCs buy out angels?
Interesting discussion at VentureWoods between Deepak Shenoy and Roshan D’Silva on this “perennial topic“. Here are their first posts (in the comments section): Deepak Shenoy said,Alok, true – there is…
Tax proposal 173 in Budget ’07-08: Impact on Indian Private Equity
At the Venture Intelligence APEX’07 event, an executive from a Fund-of-Funds that invests in India-based Private Equity (PE) funds remarked that his firm did not find much incentive to invest…
Will the $6-B Novelis buyout drag down Hindalco?
Announced as it was between the $10 billion plus Vodafone-Hutch and Tata-Corus deals, the Birla Group’s $6 billion offer for Canada-based aluminium-rolled products maker Novelis has not received much attention.…
Second time lucky?
Business Today article on how companies like Morepen Laboratories, Himachal Futuristic Communications (HFCL), Pentamedia Graphics and Silverline Technologies – that had “climbed meteoric heights on the bourses and then come…
India’s new gas pipeline policy
Business Today has an article on the new gas pipeline policy. Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of information and networking services to…
More on Marketing to Rural India
Business Today has an in depth article on rural marketing. India’s rural population, at 742 million-larger than the population of the EU and the US put together-lives in six lakh-plus…