Wanna invest in Google? Trust The Founders and Think Looo0ooong Term
By Arun Natarajan Fairy tales of the Silicon Valley kind continue to come true. Good guys (especially, if they are smart as well) do seem to finish ahead. Are these…
Will India’s wireless telecom revolution sustain?
With 1.5 million new subscribers signing up each month, India is the world’s fastest growing market for mobile telecom services. India notched up 28.2 million subscribers in nine years since…
MIT Indian Business Club invites nominations for entrepreneurship awards
The Indian Business Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is inviting nominations for the 2004 Global Indus Technovators Awards. The awards have been instituted to recognize and encourage…
Red Herring profiles email attachment software firm Accellion
S. Mohan and Nikhil Jhingan co-founded Accellion, a Palo Alto, CA and Singapore-based provider of email attachment caching technology, has been profiled in Red Herring’s “VC in Asia” column. The…
The Economist speaks on Venture Capital
Now that VC firms have started to attract and raise new funds–after a 3-year drought–The Economist magazine has felt a need to advice VCs not to get overly excited this…
Vani Kola featured in Always On
A panel discussion featuring Vani Kola, Founder & CEO of enterprise risk management software firm Nth Orbit, has been published in the AlwaysOn Network (AO) “blogzine”. The site features excerpts…
“US programmers can’t get work even at lower salaries”: BusinessWeek column
Cost is cited as the primary reason why US companies send programming work to India. So, if American programmers were willing to work for less, companies should be more than…
Some useful ideas
Business Today magazine recently brought out a special issue titled “An Ideas Superpower”. The issue featured some interesting profiles of people like Avesthagen founder Villoo Morawala Patell, IIT-Madras’ Prof. Ashok…
The coming drought for BPO IPOs
By Arun Natarajan At a time when the center of gravity of the global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is moving inexorably towards India, it is ironical that public investors…
Fake “Kleiner Perkins VC” arrested
Shamoon “Sam” Rafiq, who illegally “sold” $3 million in Google stock posing as a partner at famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB), was arrested…