VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

In recent months, I’ve had the benefit of listening and talking to several Limited Partners, General Partners and Placement Agents. And learn how difficult it is to raise a venture…

Knowledge@Wharton has an interview with K. V. Kamath, CEO of ICICI Bank. We believe that to break into the top league of global banks, ICICI will have to follow a…

Businessworld has a cover story on the strategies adopted by Citibank, HSBC and StanChart in the run up 2009. India has traditionally been a bit of a sideshow for the…

Businessworld has an article on the “heat and eat” segment of the Food & Beverages industry. According to estimates, the market for ‘heat and eat’ meals has grown by over…

Businessworld has an article on the revival of the manufacturing industry in Coimbatore. Also in 2002, the city’s auto-component industry, realising that being local doesn’t help, went in for exports…

Businessworld has a detailed cover story on the boom in the Indian engineering & construction industry triggered by rising infrastructure spending. Together these 10 companies (see ‘Billions In The Bag’)…

Among the blogs that I read – typically those penned by VCs and entrepreneurs – I found the following two remarkable posts about the most recent terrorist attacks in Bombay.…

There is a nice debate at Fred Wilson’s blog on the logic behind VCs funding journalists who operate popular blogs like Om Malik and Rafat Ali. Wilson says he knows…

Businessworld has an article on how Siva Prasad, after having failed four times to start up a waste-to-energy venture in India, is now executing his plans in Malaysia. Prasad does…

For a snapshot of the entrepreneurial zeitgeist in India, you might be interested in checking out the following blog posts (especially the comments section): http://sramanamitra.com/blog/311 andhttp://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2006/07/20/40-turns-50-in-4/ Arun Natarajan is the…