Alok Mittal on the Happiest Minds Funding
Startupcentral has an interview with Alok Mittal of Canaan Partners on the $45 million first round funding led by his firm for Wipro veteran and Mindtree Co-founder Ashok Soota’s new…
Profile of online vegetables delivery firm Veggiebazaar
An extract from The Economic Times profile … His business model is simple: Veggibazaar.com takes orders online and delivers the very next day. This not only ensures freshness of the…
The Bargain Hunter: Sun Pharma’s Dilip Shanghvi
From The Economic Times profile Shanghvi has a conservative approach to doing business,with eyes firmly focused on cost and the bottom line. As bullish peers made ill-timed and expensive (in…
“Entrepreneurship is all about getting the job done” – Raju Venkatraman of MEDALL
Cross-posting from the Venture Intelligence Entrevista series: Interaction with Raju Venkatraman, Founder & CEO, MEDALL Diagnostics Interview by Chandu Nair, Founder of Scope eKnowledge, followed by interaction with students and…
Off Topic (Slightly): Impact of Financialisation
NPR’s Planet Money has a very interesting podcast with Satyajit Das, a finance professional-turned-author, where he talks about the imbalances created by finance (and financial engineering) driving businesses, rather than…
“Mistakes to Avoid in PE Fund Raising”
Extract from an Economic Times article by Manish Kanchan, Managing Director of SAGE Capital. Very often we see entrepreneurs consulting with well wishers, old-time chartered accountants or their loyal CFOs…
Profile of Online Jeweley Retailer CaratLane
Extract from The Economic Times profile of Carat-Lane Online jewellery retail portal Carat-Lane aims to bypass the hiccups that have laid low a number of e-commerce players, by adopting a…
Profile of software products firm CustomerXPs
Economic Times has a profile of the entrepreneurial story of Bangalore-based “Customer Experience Management” Software firm CustomerXPs. Though the team was in place, it took us over a year to…
Off topic: Interaction with Constant Contact
This post is for the benefit of (and comments from) fellow paid content publishers. Constant Contact, a web-based email newsletter/marketing service that we at Venture Intelligence have been using to…
Can Indiagames leverage the Disney connection?
Business Standard has an article on Indiagames’ future under Walt Disney (which is in the process of taking over Indiagames’ current parent, UTV) Today, Indiagames works with original equipment manufacturers…