“Real Estate firms looking beyond bank (and black) financing”
Economic Times has an article on the changing face of real estate financing in India. The availability of clean money is perhaps the single biggest reason for the cleaning up…
Kiva marries microfinance to the Internet
Mohammed Yunus started it with Grameen Bank. Now, most banks in India and other parts of the developing world have embraced microfinace and profit from it. But, has anyone come…
Why did Marketics sell out?
Analytics outsourcing firms, though highly profitable, cannot scale beyond a stage. This is why pioneering marketing analytics outsourcing firm Marketics – with estimated revenues of $5-6 million and highly profitable…
New incubation program: dreamZhunt
Chennai-based IT services company SGS Technologie has launched a “business idea contest” called dreamZhunt. “The contest is focussed at IT professionals who are looking to kick-start their first business,” informs…
Podcasting with Kiruba
Kiruba Shankar interviewed me for a podcast. Check it out! Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of information and networking services to the…
“The Loser’s Curse”
Fred Wilson has an interesting post on how a VC who has lost money on a company will never again invest in the sector even though things might work out…
Roomali With A View, Dal Fryday and other BangaloreRestaurants.com
Givent that one survey has found that IT professionals spend US$1bn annually on “eating out, it is not probably not surprising that some IT industry executives in Bangalore have decided…
The hotel room shortage – and boom – in India
Businessworld has an interesting article on the opportunity and challenges facing the Indian hotel industry – including the current acute shortage of rooms, the supply rush to fill the gap,…
The IT industry’s impact on the Indian economy
Based on an online survey of over 42,000 IT professionals, CLSA has come out with an interesting report, – titled “Chain Reactions” – about the impact of the growth of…