Azim Premji interview to Knowledge@Wharton
Knowledge@Wharton has an interview with Wipro’s Azim Premji. It’s always an issue to differentiate Wipro and get closer to target companies like IBM and Accenture rather than companies like Infosys…
Bill Gurley bashes Sarbanes & Oxley
Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley is concerned that Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act is “ensuring the demise of the leadership of U.S. capital markets”. New up and coming companies outside the U.S. are…
Recent press mentions
Some recent articles in the press featuring Venture Intelligence India:The Great Indian Tech SaleFinancial Express – April 8, 2006 Induslogic Gets $12.5MRed Herring – Mar 5, 2006 Pvt equity firms…
Google launches Romance site
Investors in Indian dating/matrimonial web sites are doomed. For Google, after taking on Yahoo Finance, has now launched Google Romance, “a place where you can post all types of romantic…
Forget Rs. 500 flight tickets. We’ll be flying free soon
Given that Ryan Air, according to this Business 2.0 article, is already predicting more than half of its passengers will fly free by the end of the decade, we can…
Why Pierre Omidyar is kicked about microfinance
It is well known that Vinod Khosla is a very active investor in microfinance institutions. Interestingly, so is eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar. He explains why in an interview to FT:…
The elusive Billion Dollar exit and why it matters
TheDeal.com has an article on how billion dollar exits for VCs are now largely history and how this phenomenon is impacting the business. In the past four years, only five…
Will Nimbus buckle under its ambitious cricketing bid?
Business Today is skeptical whether Nimbus Communications, which raised $45 million from UK-based PE firm 3i last year, can manage to make money on its $612.18 million bid for the…
“The Pre-IPO Pricing Party”
Business Today has an article on how companies on the IPO path strike deals with financial investors – like PE firms, hedge funds or FIIs – to “discover” their IPO…
Is Novatium yet another Net PC/TV Co.?
Business Today has a profile of Chennai-based Novatium – co-founded by Indiaworld fame Rajesh Jain and IIT-Madras’ Prof.Ashok Jhunjhunwala – which is creating sub-Rs.5,000 network-computing devices. The big challenge before…