By Arun Natarajan An abridged version of this article appeared in the Business Line dated Jan 13, 2015 Home grown E-Commerce leaders Flipkart and Snapdeal between them raised almost $3…
The Mint has a detailed profile of the founder of Venture Capital-backed budget hotels aggregator Oravel (now, OyoRooms) titled “Will the real Ritesh Agarwal please stand up?”. The piece makes…
Powered by mega bets on E-Commerce, 2014 is 2nd biggest year for PE investments after 2007 Flipkart, Snapdeal and Olacabs account for 5 of Top 10 investments during ‘14 After…
Extracts from a post on the Lightspeed Ventures India blog (emphasis mine): Traditionally, young Indian women and men have struggled to meet new and like-minded people owing to various socio-cultural…
From the Forbes India profile: Given the scope of its services, while all realty funds have a takeover clause in their contracts, Piramal Fund Management has the actual capability to…
Writing in Business Standard, former chief economic adviser to the government Shankar Acharya has evaluated the notable economic and financial developments during the first six months of Modi Sarkaar. Extracts:…
Dr. Ajay Shah has timely and extremely well argued post on the government’s plans to subsidise LED bulbs costing Rs.400 to be sold for Rs.10! Hopefully the decision makers will…
Every time a monetary policy review is round the corner (like now), everybody from the Finance Minister to twitter-friendly industrialists decide to front run Dr.Rajan to get media attention. In…
In a “shotgun wedding“, the long term ramifications of which were somewhat drowned amidst the Diwali break last week, the Union Government has ordered the forced merger of two private…
Economic Times has an interesting interview with Sequoia Capital’s Silicon Valley-based partner Douglas (Doug) Leone on the firm’s investments in India and elsewhere. Extracts (emphasis mine): On why Sequoia is…