Teaching US students from India
Businessworld profiles the new “offshore tuitions” opportunity which involves teachers in India helping US kids improve their test scores: The Karol Bagh centre of Educomp Datamatics could easily be one…
The opportunity and challenges in automobile design outsourcing
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,…
IIT-B start-up Powai Labs to launch chip testing system
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…
Patents are like nuclear bombs, you just got to have some
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,…
Dot Edu ventures parts ways with Naval Ravikant
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 –…
Difference between a founder and a CEO
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).…
“Lemons ripen early, pearls take longer”
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…
Foreign Investment caps in other sectors
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…
Foreign investment limit in telecom services hiked
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…
More “Ram Shriramayanam”
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…