The BSE CEO’s Entrepreneurial Journey
Special Guest at the Venture Intelligence APEX’13 Awards, Ashish Chauhan, CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange provided a witty account of his experiences as an entrepreneur including in founding two startup ventures:…
“We need a Credible India and not Incredible India.”
Sandeep Naik, General Atlantic at APEX’13 Summit & Awards “The sense of complacency – in terms of assuming foreign investors somehow have to invest in India – has cost us…
Dr.Subir Gokarn at APEX’13 Awards
Special Guest at the APEX’13 Awards, Dr.Subir Gokarn, Noted Economist & Former Deputy Governor, RBI, pointed out that the surge in productivity, thanks to dramatic rise in the telecom penetration…
Special Panel on Private Equity at APEX’13 Summit & Awards
K.P.Balaraj, WestBridge Capital; Vijay Pattabhiraman, JP Morgan; Akhil Gupta, Blackstone Group; Srivatsa Krishna, IAS; Sandeep Naik, General Atlantic; Ashish Dhawan, ChrysCapital; Neeraj Bharadwaj, Carlyle For the more detailed APEX’13 Summit…
Sound Bite: Ashish Dhawan, ChrysCapital at APEX’13 Summit & Awards
Ashish Dhawan, ChrysCapital “If we were to shut down the Mauritius route (for investments), there is a real danger that we will destroy Private Equity in the country. And it’s…
How Real Estate financing has adapted to the New Normal
From a recent Business Today Cover Story: There was a rush of foreign direct investment into Indian real estate when the sector was first opened, but that is now drying…
Profile of Manipal Hospitals
From the profile in The Smart CEO: Today, Manipal Health Enterprise’s network encompasses 10 corporate hospitals with 1,600 beds and five teaching hospitals with 3,300 beds, across Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,…
Getting to Series A
Gaurav Saraf of Epiphany Ventures has a post in StartupCentral guiding founders to solutions to getting around the current crunch for “Series A” (first round of VC investments). Venture Intelligence…
What should count as true traction
Sumanth Raghavendra, serial/parallel entrepreneur (currently founder of Q-Prize winner Deck App Technologies and Live Inbox and previously founder of Sabeer Bhatia- and SoftBank-funded InstaColl), has a great post on what…
E-tailers warm up to “pop-up stores” at malls
From a Businessworld article: The assistants at the kiosk walk consumers through the process of shopping online, availing exciting discounts and buying products. Since its launch on 21 December, the…