Businessworld has published a cover story on the trends in the outsourcing of automobile design work to India: Several companies like Ford, General Motors (GM), DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW,…
Businessworld profiles Powai Labs, an IIT-Bombay incubated start-up that is close to launching a chip testing system: Powai Labs, after two years of existence, is ready to launch its first…
Fred Wilson writes at his blog: I have never seen patents make a business, but I have seen lack of patents hurt a business on many occasions. So this line,…
As pointed out in a New York Times article linked here last week, three of the five founders of e-commerce firm Epinions – including Naval Ravikant and Ramanathan Guha –…
Michael Simmons quoting a speech by Paul Orfalea, founder and chairman Emeritus of Kinkos: He made a great distinction between people managing their career (CEO) and managing their business (Owner).…
From Fred Wilson’s blog post: The bad deals reveal themselves to you early and you have to deal with the fact you made a bad investment and figure out how…
The Hindu also provided a roundup of the current status of foreign investment caps in other sectors: Civil Aviation: for airlines, the current foreign direct investment (FDI) cap is 49…
From The Hindu: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the long-deliberated proposal to hike the ceiling of composite foreign direct investment (FDI) in the telecom sector to 74 per cent…
This time courtersy Business 2.0: Google’s outsize success fixed a giant halo above Shriram’s 48-year-old head. And it helped gain him entrée into two of the most-hyped startups of the…
From McKinsey Quarterly: A recent McKinsey study of China’s software sector, however, shows that it will be many years before the country poses a threat to its continental rival in…