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…
Naveen Tewari of InMobi on SoftBank and Ram Shriram
Extract from The Economic Times profile of the mobile advertising company made famous by the recent $200 million investment that it attracted from SoftBank: On Raising Funds From Ram Shriram.…
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…
Profile of employability training firm Talent Bridge
Smart CEO has profile on this company which focuses on making youth from Tier II and III cities more employment ready. After three years of research, the Graduate Certificate in…
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…
Data Highlight: Blackstone Lights Up Q3’11 Investing Over $500-M
US-headquartered Private Equity firm Blackstone stepped on the gas on its India investments, committing to invest over half a billion dollars in just the three months ended September 2011, according…
VC firms invest $217-M in Q3’11
Venture Capital firms invested $217 million over 43 deals in India during the three months ending September 2011, according to a study by Venture Intelligence (http://www.ventureintelligence.in), a research service focused…
Deal Alert: Nexus Ventures invests $4-M in mobile apps developer Genwi
From the Press Release: GENWI (http://genwi.com), the leader in cloud publishing platforms for Tablets and Smartphones, has raised $4 million in Series A funding in a round led by Nexus…