Should you lead or follow?
At a time when we are witnessing several follow-on financing rounds in India, Fred Wilson has an post on why his firm prefers to be the lead investor in the…
Online Video is booming: Mary Meeker
Morgan Stanley’s Internet analyst Mary Meeker presented an update to her “State of the Internet” presentation at the Web 2.0 conference earlier this week. I had linked to her 2005…
Top sectors in Indian manufacturing
Business Today has a detailed and well researched feature on top performing sectors within the Indian manufacturing industry. There are a handful of industries in India that have begun to…
Prospects for Indian Social Networking Sites
In the wake of the YouTube acquisition, Economic Times has a feature on Indian online social networking startups and their prospects. Sources say six other start-ups are looking to join…
Online real estate listing services
Business Today has an article on online real estate-focused classified sites like 99acres, magicbricks, indiaproperties, etc. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture Intelligence, which tracks private equity and venture…
Profile of Pawan Ruia
Businessworld has a profile of buy-and-turnaround specialist Pawan Ruia. A merchant banker by profession (he is a chartered accountant and has also studied cost accountancy, company secretaryship and law), he…
How Indian SMEs finance themselves
Knowledge@Wharton reports on an academic study “Financing Firms in India”. The study…challenges the conventional wisdom among academics and public policy experts that corruption automatically impedes economic advancement of developing countries,…
Businessworld’s youth survey
Businessworld has a cover story based on a survey of 5,485 young people surveyed across 15 Indian cities such as Kochi, Jaipur or Bangalore. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of…
Real Estate BPO firm NTrust
Businessworld has a short profile of NTrust, a provider of outsourcing services to US Real Estate companies. NTrust, floated in 2002, has built a $12 million business in the lease…
MRO business takes off
Businessworld has an article on the growth of the aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business in India. There are about 300-odd third-party MRO units worldwide, of which more than…