Best practices for cross-border companies With Silicon Valley VCs pushing portfolio companies to India and Ishoni Networks already a case study on how not to handle an offshore operation, there…
Vinod Khosla to go part-time at KPCB, to be more active in India: reports Ace entrepreneur-turned-VC Vinod Khosla is to go part time at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the…
From fighting VCs to funding Hindi films In a new column for BusinessWeek Online, Vivek Wadhwa, Founder, Chairman and former CEO of US-based enterprise software firm Relativity Technologies, talks about…
Capital intensive businesses not suited for VC investments: Michael Moritz Capital intensive businesses are not suited for venture capital investing, says Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital in an interview to…
Lessons in retail With the boom in consumer spending, VCs have begun to show keen interest in funding organized retailers in India. ICICI Ventures has been especially proactive in this…
Wi-Fi is actually under-hyped: Bill Gurley While some of his peers in Silicon Valley are swearing to stay away from Wi-Fi saying that the sector is over-funded, J. William Gurley,…
Wi-Fi tops list of what’s NOT hot among US VCs Forbes magazines asked several top VCs in the US to name their picks for the best and worst sectors for…
Promod Haque displaces Vinod Khosla in Forbes’ “Midas List” Norwest Venture Partners’ Promod Haque displaced another VC of Indian origin, Vinod Khosla of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, to climb…
Brunei VC fund scouting for early-stage, “spin-in” deals in India The BI Venture Capital Group, a part of Brunei Investments Group which manages investments of royal families across Asia, is…
Exits, aggressive entry valuations to be themes of ’04: Ashish Dhawan As the stock markets continue to heat up in 2004, private equity investors–at least, the “disciplined” ones–will focus on…