Praj Industries: Vinod Khosla’s Indian Ethanol bet
Businessworld has a profile of Pune-based Praj Industries, a listed Ethanol technology company in which Vinod Khosla has picked up a 10% stake. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture…
How companies are latching on to the real estate boom
In case you just landed back from Mars, real estate in India is booming. Businessworld has a cover story on how companies are latching on to the boom. Indian companies,…
Status of the power sector
Business Today has a special report on the power sector. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture Intelligence India, which tracks venture capital activity in India and Indian-founded companies worldwide.…
Infosys @ 25
On the 25th anniversary of the company’s founding, Business Today has an article on 25 little-known facts about Infosys. On July 2, 2006, Infosys technologies will turn 25. That’s not…
Portfolios of Indian tech billionaires
Business Today has a Cover Story on how India’s tech billionaires – including Azim Premji, Nandan Nilekani, Shiv Nadar and Ramalinga Raju – are investing their personal money. Arun Natarajan…
Google sells stake in Baidu
For every reasonably famous (as against “successful”) online services business model in the US, there is a copycat being created – and venture capital funded – in China. I’m however…
Tim Draper, UBS are LPs in PE fund run by Utah Univ. students
From the Press Release: The University Venture Fund (UVF) announced today it has achieved a final closing of $18 million in funding, an unprecedented amount of capital for a student-run…
John Doerr interviews Thomas Friedman on the Energy Crisis
KPCB’s John Doerr interviews Thomas Friedman (of “The World is Flat” fame) on the Energy Crisis, its impact and potential solutions. Quite riveting stuff. Hat tip: Paul Kedrosky Arun Natarajan…
Recommendations for catalyzing early-stage capital formation
Stanford’s Rafiq Dossani and TiE-SV’s Asawari Desai have published a research report titled “Accessing Early-Stage Risk Capital in India”that aims to identify causes and recommend improvements for the lack of…
Khosla walking the talk with Ethanol
So far, Vinod Khosla has done a lot of deep thinking and powerful talking about using Ethanol to “replace all our (America’s) oil imports and become the centre of our…