Forbes profile of Warburg Pincus
Forbes has a feature on Warburg Pincus with a focus on how it has been avoiding “club deals” (in which various leading PE firms band together to do buyouts). Arun…
Mobile entertainment takes off
Businessworld has a cover story on the boom in the mobile data services sector and its beneficiaries. The Opportunities As these three main protagonists — media, mobile and aggregators —…
Indian animation industry’s new business model
Businessworld has an article examining the strengths and weaknesses of Indian animation – long touted as the “next big outsourcing story” – and concludes that the sector seems to have…
How to spot a good VC
Entrepreneur & CEO Matt Blumberg has list of characteristics that a great VC needs to exhibit. – Major pattern recognition — “I’ve seen this movie before, and I know how…
Global Private Equity climate: the LP view
Knowekdge@Wharton has published the proceeds of a a roundtable discussion between four leading limited partners – Kristin Gilbertson of the University of Pennsylvania, Sandra Pajarola of Partners Group, Cory Pulfrey…
PE investing in India and China
Knowledge@Wharton has an article based on a panel discussion on private equity investing in India and China titled “Driving Returns: Value Added Investing.” Mukund Krishnaswami, managing director of Krilacon Group,…
Second part of Premji’s interview with K@W
Knowledge@Wharton has published the second part of its interview with Wipro’s Azim Premji. Aron: You already have a strong footprint in IT design, development, maintenance and operations. Now, as you…
Why Bessemer is investing in a stock broking firm
Anand Sridharan of Bessemer Venture Partners has a blog post on why his firm (along with New Vernon Private Equity)has invested into Motilal Oswal Financial Services, a leading Indian stockbroking…
Developers as dotcommers
Business Today has a detailed article examining whether the boom in Indian real estate prices is sustainable. Points on the “Yes” side: To answer in a word, demand. Underlying it,…
The Reddy and Rao of Infrastructure
Business Today has an article profiling the Hyderabad-based GMR and GVK business groups (both named after their founders Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao and Gunapati Venkata Krishna Reddy respectively) which have recently…