The hotel room shortage – and boom – in India
Businessworld has an interesting article on the opportunity and challenges facing the Indian hotel industry – including the current acute shortage of rooms, the supply rush to fill the gap,…
The IT industry’s impact on the Indian economy
Based on an online survey of over 42,000 IT professionals, CLSA has come out with an interesting report, – titled “Chain Reactions” – about the impact of the growth of…
State of Indian Life Sciences industry
Business Today has a special feature on the Indian Life Sciences industry including the generics, contract research, original drug development and biotech sectors. Mid-January, Mumbai-based Nicholas Piramal announced a deal…
Primer on AIM listing
AltAssets has a downloadable backgrounder, by law firm King Stubb & Kasiva, on Indian companies looking to list on the UK’s AIM market. Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO…
Actis goes gaga on the Indian consumer boom
UK-based PE firm Actis’ India managers sing paens to the Indian consumer boom in the article for AltAssets. With 1,000 new cars a day crowding onto the streets of India,…
Is the media celebrating Silicon Valley VCs a bit too much?
This PEHub article on a man – “Anand Lyer Vaidyanathan” (persumably, Anand Iyer Vaidyanathan) – arrested for repeatedly tresspassing Seqouia Capital’s Sand Hill Road office seems to indicate as much.…
Sarbox and Private Equity
Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman pointed out how buy out firms are benefiting from Sarbanes Oxley regulations at the recent Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference. Knowledge@Wharton has an…
Speaker list for Internet & Mobile Connect – Mumbai, March 15
Over 15 leading VC investors and top executives from Online Services and Mobile VAS companies will be speaking at the event. The speaker list includes: Murugavel Janakiraman, Bharatmatrimony.com Alok Mittal,…
Should VCs buy out angels?
Interesting discussion at VentureWoods between Deepak Shenoy and Roshan D’Silva on this “perennial topic“. Here are their first posts (in the comments section): Deepak Shenoy said,Alok, true – there is…
Tax proposal 173 in Budget ’07-08: Impact on Indian Private Equity
At the Venture Intelligence APEX’07 event, an executive from a Fund-of-Funds that invests in India-based Private Equity (PE) funds remarked that his firm did not find much incentive to invest…