Avnish Bajaj of Matrix Partners on Internet cos.
Outlook Business has an interview with Avnish Bajaj of Matrix Partners India, who earlier founded auctions web site Baazee.com, on investments in Internet-based services. If you just go through the…
“Water is a bigger priority than global warming”
At the recent Top Ten Tech Trends event organized by the US-based Churchill Club, Joe Schoendorf, Partner at Accel Partners and Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures made the following interesting…
The Credit Crisis & Ways of the Market Explained
Comics John Bird and John Fortune have a hilarious video that explains how “markets work” and why it is only correct for regulators to bail out investment banks whose actions…
“We are keen to invest in IT Products and Media cos.” – Interview with Niren Shah of Norwest
N. Sriram of Venture Intelligence recently spoke to Niren Shah, Managing Director of Norwest Venture Partners, who heads the Silicon Valley firm’s India investments out of Mumbai. Niren was earlier…
Doing Due Diligence on VCs
These days, there is a lot of good advice online – see examples here and here – on raising Venture Capital in the Indian context. A lot of knowledgeable persons…
Lesson from the PurpleYogi
I just read VC Bill Burnham’s post on the lessons he learnt from his investment in Stratify. An Internet-era company that was originally founded as PurpleYogi, the company has several…
Company Showcase
Clean fuels firm seeks $12.5 M (in two tranches of $7 & $5.5 M) Company manufacturing conversion kits to convert diesel engines to CNG is looking to raise about US$12.5…
Poison Pill for India Inc.
Corporate lawyer Rajiv Lutha has an article in The Economic Times on the amendments required to various M&A-related laws to facilitate tools to help ward off hostile takeovers. In the…
LPs preparing for less spectacular exits?
“We have tempered our growth expectations. But we still expect to see private equity returns commensurate with the risk we are taking, and far in excess of other markets,” says…