Indian chip cos. get some serious buzz
Following a new study by the India Semiconductor Association, the industry is getting a lot of buzz in the media including a cover story (no less!) in Businessworld and a…
Forbes profiles DLF Group
Forbes has a profile of New Delhi-based real estate developers DLF Group and its Chairman, K.P. Singh. Today he presides over closely held DLF group, India’s largest real estate developer…
Bridge Loans vs. Preferred Equity: A VC’s perspective
Some Seed Funds and entrepreneurs like to use convertible notes, which pegs the valuation of the seed investment to that of the first round (which is typically expected to happen…
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…