Making merry until the IPO party lasts
In an article for the Financial Express, I highlight how late-stage companies are tapping Private Equity investments just a few months before filing for an IPO. October 2004: HT Media…
Why all this buzz around media?
The latest issue of Businessworld magazine has a cover story on the heightened deal-making in the media and entertainment sector in 2005. Here’s my take on the Private Equity action…
Citigroup launches “venture lending” service in India
This week, Citigroup announced the first customer – Chennai-based Secova eServices – for its new “venture lending” service to Venture Capital-backed companies in India. Apart from providing a term loan,…
“Regulators need to watch out for Private Equity firms”
In the context of the launch of large buyout-focused PE funds like Blackstone and The Carlyle Group in India, Raghuvir Mukherji, a consultant with the Financial Securities Group of Infosys…
Does it pay to be an iconoclastic VC?
Extract from a recent The Deal.com report: (Tim Draper, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson) is best known for self-promotional stunts such as singing at conferences, dressing up as Batman…
VentureVoice audio interview with Brad Feld
In this podcast interview to VentureVoice, Brad Feld of Mobius VC talks Issue of products vs. consulting, VC-CEO relationship, relevance of business plans, working with other VCs, dealing with lawyers…
Audio interview with Bessemer Ventures’ Rob Chandra
In this downloadable mp3 audio interview (“podcast”) to PodTech.NET, Bessemer Ventures General Partner Rob Chandra talks about the industry segments that his firm is actively investing in these days, about…
Indiabulls on the rampage
Business Today has a fascinating profile of PE-backed stock broking and financial services firm Indiabulls (A) striking feature of Indiabulls is its ability to raise money. In 2000, it had…
An U-turn at i2?
Sanjiv Sidhu founded supply chain software i2 Technologies seems to have emerged back from the brink, says this BusinessWeek article, providing a lot of credit Michael McGrath, who took over…
Profile of ChrysCapital’s Ashish Dhawan
Business Today has published a detailed profile of ChrysCapital co-founder and Sr. Managing Director Ashish Dhawan, who has managed to successfully transform his firm from an early-stage, Internet services focused…