Boom time for Employability Training Cos.
Business Today has an article on how South India-based Employability Training companies are now getting businesses from colleges desperate to place their students successfully. Cracking that job interview is the…
Market Recovery: The View from 3 Different Camps
In a column for the Economic Times, Morgan Stanley’s Ruchir Sharma highlights 3 different viewpoints that investors have regarding the global market recovery. Camp 1: This is it, nothing comes…
Bharti’s “Professional Managed, Entrepreneur Supported” model
Extract from Sunil Mittal’s interview to Forbes India. When we started out, we were an entrepreneur-led, entrepreneur-promoted company. We did a great job. In some companies, this phase lasts forever.…
The Wal-Mart of Indian Hospitals
Forbes India has a profile of heart care specialist Narayana Hrudyalaya and how it is adopting Wal-Mart style “scale economics” to the healthcare business. A heart surgery here costs Rs.…
Deal Alert: Continental Warehousing raises Rs. 78-Cr from Aureos, E-Planet
Continental Warehousing Nhava Sheva Ltd. (CWNSL) has raised Rs. 78 crore from Aureos India and E-planet Ventures. Of this, Aureos invested Rs. 50 crore. CWNSL operates container freight stations at…
The curious case of struggling asset reconstruction cos.
The Mint’s banking editor has an article on the curious and counter intuitive case of struggling asset reconstruction companies. …banks have stopped selling their bad assets. There has not been…
How Sequoia changed the face of VC in India
Outlook Business has an article on how Sequoia Capital India (formerly Westbridge Capital) – among the few VC firms in India from the 2000-era which continue to make early-stage investments…
Broadcasting higher losses
Businessworld has an analysis of the rising losses at TV broadcasting firms. NDTV’s results too are nothing to write home about, but analysts have noted that the company has trimmed…
Deal Alert: Online classifieds firm Quikr raises Rs. 20-Cr second round funding
Edited excerpts from the Press Release Quikr India, the online classifieds site, has raised a Rs. 20 crore second round of funding in led by new investor Omidyar Network and…
Halcyon Group launches forum to assist cos. facing difficult times
Investment management firm Halcyon Resources & Management has catalysed the launch of the Halcyon Forum comprising of eminent individuals from banking, manufacturing, capital markets and services sectors, to provide advice…