Buyouts feature in Corporate Dossier
Economic Times’ Corporate Dossier supplement has a four-part feature on buyouts in India and how they initial few deals have fared. (Part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.)…
Mike Moritz interview to Business Today
Business Today recently published an interview with Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz. I think American investors today understand that a lot of money has rushed into India and the shrewder American…
Online travel portals: Can we hear the crash already?
Anurag Gupta has analyzed the economics of the online travel services sector and the results are not very encouraging for the half-a-dozen VC-backed startups in this space. This will remain…
“Buyout firms aren’t cartelizing”
Recent months have witnessed large buyouts in the US (like in the case of Harrah’s, HCA and Univision) where there was only one bidder – in the form of a…
Should you lead or follow?
At a time when we are witnessing several follow-on financing rounds in India, Fred Wilson has an post on why his firm prefers to be the lead investor in the…
Online Video is booming: Mary Meeker
Morgan Stanley’s Internet analyst Mary Meeker presented an update to her “State of the Internet” presentation at the Web 2.0 conference earlier this week. I had linked to her 2005…
Top sectors in Indian manufacturing
Business Today has a detailed and well researched feature on top performing sectors within the Indian manufacturing industry. There are a handful of industries in India that have begun to…
Prospects for Indian Social Networking Sites
In the wake of the YouTube acquisition, Economic Times has a feature on Indian online social networking startups and their prospects. Sources say six other start-ups are looking to join…
Online real estate listing services
Business Today has an article on online real estate-focused classified sites like 99acres, magicbricks, indiaproperties, etc. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture Intelligence, which tracks private equity and venture…
Profile of Pawan Ruia
Businessworld has a profile of buy-and-turnaround specialist Pawan Ruia. A merchant banker by profession (he is a chartered accountant and has also studied cost accountancy, company secretaryship and law), he…