Taking mobile phones into small town India
Businessworld has an article on how mobile operators are expaning their services into small towns and rural areas. It is these markets that are now spurring much of telecom growth.…
The rise of drug discovery services
Businessworld has a cover story on how a clutch of entrepreneurial companies are making a mark on the global drug discovery value chain. The article includes an interview with former…
What’s holding back the Indian Venture Capital Market?
In this guest post, Abrar Hussain, points out that India’s venture capital ecosystem has “some ripening to do” before it can be equated to the original Silicon Valley.“Opportunity is missed…
Who will survive the low cost airline war?
Businessworld has a detailed cover story on the state of the low-cost airline industry in India, including a comparison of the strenghts and weakness of the current leaders – Air…
Can the Indian film industry scale?
Businessworld has a detailed cover story on the Indian film business, the major players and the challenges facing them. PVR Cinemas, Yash Raj Films, UTV Software Communications, Adlabs, Sahara, Pritish…
Indian cos. go on overseas shopping spree
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal has an article on how India’s growing economy and booming stock market is encouraging Indian companies to make ambitious acquisitions overseas – including in Silicon…
A well timed play on India
The Evolvence India Fund (EIF), the first independent private equity “Fund of Funds” set up exclusively for investments in India, has been very active in the six months since its…
Nasscom names first “Innovation Shortlist”
At a time when US enterprise software firms are facing challenging times thanks to a “Perfect Storm” created by the rise of Open Source software and the Software as a…
The Private Equity opportunity in Real Estate
While the other trends we are looking forward to in 2006 – a steady pick up in buyout activity and the re-emergence of early-stage technology investing – might or might…
Who is the VC’s customer?
Fred Wilson has a great take on this topic: Many of the people I know in the venture capital business think their customers are their investors, called LPs in the…