Dotcom IPOs are back – on the AIM that is
PEHub and VentureBeat have reported how loss-making video search web site Blinkx has raised $50 million via an IPO on the London AIM exchange. PEHub also points to an article…
13-year-old CEO steals show at TiECon’07
VentureBeat has an interesting video interview with the 13-year old Anshul Samar, Founder and CEO of Elementeo, at this year’s TiECon. Elementeo has developed a “combat” card game which aims…
Adveq to launch Asia-focused Fund of Funds in ’08
AltAssets has an interview with André P Jaeggi, Managing Director of Adveq, a Switzerland-based Fund-of-Funds, in which he talks about the firm’s increasing focus on Asia. While we have always…
Why doing R&D in Bangalore is becoming dumb and dumber
At least for start-ups – including VC-backed ones. For over a year now, entrepreneur friends who are doing R&D for their product companies out of Bangalore have been pointing out…
“Emerging markets PE to fetch 5.4% higher returns over US buyouts”: LP Survey
The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association has released the exectuive summary of its 2007 Survey of Limited Partner Interest. Some highlights of the survey’s findings: • 52% of LPs said…
Air Deccan CEO interview to The Mint
The Mint has an interview with Air Deccan’s Founder & CEO, Captain G.R. Gopinath, on his company’s plans to raise a large amount of Private Equity funding at a time…
Globalization through acquisitions: Pharma cos. show the way
Habil Khorakiwala, Chairman, Wockhardt Group has an article in the Economic Times on how Indian pharmaceuticals are leading the way in creating global operations via the inorganic route. The transition…
Do buyout firms need operating partners?
Knowledge@Wharton has an interesting article on whether buyout firms hiring operating partners “with experience running plants and facilities, and rolodexes full of industry contacts” will boost their higher returns. A…
Paco and Witco
V.P.Harris, Managing Director of Chennai-based speciality retailer Witco, sent me a note with some interesting takeaways and reactions to the recent presentation made by retail guru Paco Underhill in Bangalore.…
Why captive outsourcing centers are “imploding”
Basab Pradhan, former head of sales at Infosys, has his own take on the recent Forrestor Research report on how captive centers of MNCs are underperforming their third-party outsourcing peers.…