“Determination to succeed is what counts”: 24/7 Customer CEO
What could be new or interesting about “yet another VC-backed BPO Firm” launching yet another call center facility? Luckily for me, I did not let this question dissuade me from…
Rajiv Gupta ‘s new “web telephony company” Cirxit bags CitySearch order
Rajiv Gupta, an former HP executive who co-founded and sold Confluent Software (a Sunnyvale, CA-based provider of software for managing Web services) to Oblix in February 2004, has created a…
New India VC Guide
Mumbai-based Dickenson Intellinetics has launched “VC Guide for India 2004-05” providing profiles of national and international Venture Capital/Private Equity that have a keen interest in India. Using a standard template…
Differences between investing in China and India
China has a very strong government and a weak corporate sector. India has a weak government and a strong corporate sector. Some extracts from an interesting interview in Businessworld with…
Getting VC funding without a MBA
# Unless your best friend in the world — whom you happen to have embarrassing pictures of — is a VC partner, please do not contact any VC. It makes…
Larger domestic IT market makes China more attractive to VCs
What is the size of the domestic market for IT products? This is one of the first questions that a General Partner at Boston and Silicon Valley based Battery Ventures…
Fenwick & West Venture Capital Survey 3Q 2004
Mountain View, CA-based law firm Fenwick & West has released the 3Q04 edition of its Silicon Valley and Israel Venture Capital surveys. Click Here for the Silicon Valley survey. Click…
Should Warren Buffet worry about Ram Shriram?
Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures, an early investor in Google, is free to become a billionaire anytime – ie, anytime GOOG trades above $190. As of last Tuesday (November 16,…
Heralding “global-from-day-one” start-ups
As I was going through the program agenda of Ernst & Young’s Israel-India-China Global Hotbed Cross-Border Company Showcase event (at the San Mateo Marriott on November 4, 2004), I was…
Indian gaming industry to grow 5-fold by 2006-07: KPMG survey
Fuelled by booming demand for mobile games and local content, the Indian gaming content industry is set to grow five fold to touch $100 million by 2006-07, according to a…