Will US PE firms’ recent troubles in China, Korea favor India?
A new regulation prohibiting the creation of offshore companies “is bringing foreign private equity investments in China to a halt”, says a news item in Private Equity Week: VCs came…
Blog Watch: Sramana Mitra
Sramana Mitra is yet another new blogger that I intend to track. Here’s an extract from her bio: Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon…
Off Coast software development
H1-B visa caps preventing you from shipping software engineers to the US? No problem. Just buy a cruise ship and park it close to a major US port and have…
BA Systems and Teneo Systems: New stealth mode start-ups with Indian founders
Businesweek’s Deal Flow blog as a profile of these two companies as part of an article on “Stealth Deals of Q1” * BA Systems — Just four months old, this…
Start-ups shouldn’t bother with detailed business plans: Mike Moritz
According to BusinessWeek’s Deal Flow blog, Michael Moritz, a general partner at VC firm Sequoia Capital and an early investor in Google, Yahoo! and Cisco, while speaking at the VentureOne…
“India AND China” season
The Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s visit to India this week has triggered a lot of “India and China” articles. Here are a few interesting extracts. From Businessworld’s cover story:…
Why ICICI Venture’s Renuka Ramnath is smitten by the retail sector
Economic Times has a profile of ICICI Ventures CEO Renuka Ramnath with a special focus on her fondness for the retail sector. Definitely the first and one of the few…
Hey, wanna go public?
I got the following unsolicited email today: I hope this finds you well, as you may already know, we specialize in assisting companies in Going Public. We also assist with…
Moment of truth for the Indian textiles industry
McKinsey Quarterly has an article on the opportunites thrown up for the industry by the removal of world trade quota restrictions. India’s apparel industry faces a moment of truth when…
Is publishing a good investment opportunity?
There is certainly a lot of action suddenly, as this Businessworld Cover Story shows: And a lot of investments going on as well: But are the players going to make…