Kidswear retail gets serious
Extract from the Business Today article: There is quite a crowd on the kids’ wear bandwagon, and segmentation has stretched in the past year to include luxury. While Big Bazaar…
“Focus on your 3Cs: Credibility, Cash Flow and Crew” – Rajeev Mecheri of Mecheri Smart Capital
Cross-posting from the Venture Intelligence Entrevista series: Lessons from the Startup to Scale-up to Successful Sale of iMetrex Technologies, a building technologies and security venture catering to the Indian enterprise…
“India’s entrepreneurial journey at least 5 yrs behind China’s”
From the article in Forbes by Journalist Rebecca Fannin. India’s entrepreneurial journey is at least five years behind China’s path. There’s no Jack Ma or Robin Li in sight or…
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…