Status check on Lehman and AIG asset sales
WSJ.com’s Deal Journal has an interesting post following up on the asset sales managed so far by Lehman and AIG. It isn’t working out exactly as the government may have…
The Private Equity View
Outlook Business has a set of invited articles by leading investors as part of its cover story on Private Equity. Some extracts: Akhil Gupta of Blackstone Also, since liquidity has…
TiE Entrepreneurial Summit 2008; Dec 16-18; Bangalore
TiE Entrepreneurial Summit 2008 (TES 2008) is Asia’s largest Summit that brings bringing together a galaxy of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, policy makers, academia, industry, thought leaders and other major stake…
Is development finally on the political agenda?
Political analyst Prem Shankar Jha writes in the Economic Times that the results of the recent state elections indicate that Indian voters are finally attaching a significant weightage to development-related…
JiGrahak named among WEF’s Technology Pioneers
Bangalore-based mobile payments company JiGrahak Mobility Solutions has been selected as one of the 34 “Technology Pioneers” for 2009 by the World Economic Forum. The WEF names such companies from…
The RBI has the most room to cut
Here’s an “interesting” graphic from WSJ that shows how India is clearly the leader – in high interest rates that is. India is clubbed with Japan (whose rates rule at…
Should the US be merged with China or Canada?
Peter Rip, General Partner at Crosslink Capital, has a post on how US is currently looking like a classic “restart opportunity”. The current discussions (December 2008) in Congress and the…
“US lawmakers have much to answer for”
In an article for Economic Times, noted IAS officer Srivatsa Krishna points out some historic regulatory blunders that led to the US credit crisis . First, at the heart of…
“Strong Dollar is bad news for Emerging Markets”
CNBC-TV18 has an interview with Shankar Sharma, Vice-Chairman and Joint Managing Director of First Global, in which he points to the inverse relationship between the US Dollar and the fortunes…
“VCs will require to invest more per company”
Outlook Business has an interview with Promod Haque, Managing Partner of Norwest Venture Partners, in which he says the need for VCs to provide more support to existing portfolio companies…