Interview with Sarath Naru of Ventureast
Ventureast, recognized as one of the committed early-stage investors in India, has been investing quite actively in 2008 across three funds – the sector-agnostic “Proactive Fund”, the seed level-focused Ventureast-Tenet…
‘Politics and fraud hold the key’
In his column appearing in Businessworld, Bill Emmott, points out why the length and depth of this recession would probably depend most on politicians and fraudsters. How true in light…
“Inbound deals likely to surge first”
TheDeal.com has a video interview with Prof. Anil Gupta of the Smith School of Business who feels that, once the credit crisis eases, we are likely to see a wave…
Deccan Cargo’s takeoff plans
Outlook Business has an article describing the start-up plans of Air Deccan founder Capt. Gopinath’s second company. With the help of a headhunting firm, the serial entrepreneur quickly shortlisted six…
Jobs@Venture Intelligence: Looking to add to our BD Team
Designation: Manager-Sales & Marketing Experience: 1+ years Technology / Skills: MS Office (Excel and Access in particular), Internet Browsing & Searching, Copy Writing Age: 24-28 Years Education: Bachelors or Masters…
Interview with Naren Gupta of Nexus India
The Mint has an interview with Naren Gupta, Managing Director of Nexus India Capital. I think India will be affected more than what we have seen so far. Everybody feels…
Basics of the credit crisis
Paddy Hirsch of Marketplace has a set of videos explaining the various basics of the global credit crisis using a whiteboard. Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture…
Tombstones with a difference
From Reuters’ report on how a record number of M&A deals were canceled during the year. Most investment bankers would like to forget about the disastrous year that was 2008…
Is the doom & gloom overdone?
Extracts from a Roundtable discussion organized by Economic Times, featuring Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, Tata Sons executive director R Gopalakrishnan, JP Morgan India CEO Kalpana Morparia and…
Why China couldn’t decouple
Yasheng Huang, a professor of international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has an interesting article in WSJ. The fundamental problem, and a mortal bias of economists, is…