OATSystems in trouble?
Jeff Nolan of SAP Ventures has “heard” that Prasad Putta and Sridhar Ramachandran co-founded OATSystems, a Watertown, MA based provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) software, is up for sale.…
And the biggest acquirer of IT companies is..
Via Brad Feld: No major surprises. Nevertheless, nice to see it represented visually. Arun Natarajan is the Editor of TSJ Media, which tracks venture capital activity in India and Indian-founded…
Vinod Khosla beyond KPCB
Business Week’s Deal Flow Blog has an article on what Vinod Khosla has been up to post his decision not to participate as a General Partner in KPCB’s (Kleiner Perkins…
What Microsoft looks for in an potential acquiree
Will Price reports from Microsoft’s VC Summit in Mountain View on what MSFT – according to its CEO Steve Ballmer – looks for when it considers acquiring a company: *…
Meetings without cell phones and Blackberrys
Will Price reports from Microsoft’s VC Summit in Mountain View on how MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer does not carry a Blackberry or a cell phone during the work day. He…
How to join the VC/PE industry
Seth Levine of Mobius VC has a few tips for MBAs and wannabee MBAs keen to join the Venture Capital/Private Equity industry: Understand the math. The partners are quite literally…
Can HR services firms do justice when it comes to hiring VCs?
Recently, we have tracked several appointments and movements in the Indian VC/PE industry in our Venture Intelligence India newsletters. There has been a lot of churn at India-based firms as…
A tech VC calls it quits
Howard Anderson’s article in Technology Review magazine on why he belives the VC business – at least, the IT-focused part – is no longer a great one is attracting a…
How US equity research is parcelled out to India
Stephen Castellano has a post on which elements of US equity research can be outsourced to India: While I do not think every function within equity research can be outsourced,…
Microsoft’s VC Summit
Jeff Clavier posts on Microsoft’s annual meeting with Silicon Valley VCs in their “own backyard”: Every year, Microsoft hosts a VC Summit involving 100+ Microsoft senior executives and 200+ venture…