“Regulators need to watch out for Private Equity firms”
In the context of the launch of large buyout-focused PE funds like Blackstone and The Carlyle Group in India, Raghuvir Mukherji, a consultant with the Financial Securities Group of Infosys…
Does it pay to be an iconoclastic VC?
Extract from a recent The Deal.com report: (Tim Draper, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson) is best known for self-promotional stunts such as singing at conferences, dressing up as Batman…
VentureVoice audio interview with Brad Feld
In this podcast interview to VentureVoice, Brad Feld of Mobius VC talks Issue of products vs. consulting, VC-CEO relationship, relevance of business plans, working with other VCs, dealing with lawyers…
Audio interview with Bessemer Ventures’ Rob Chandra
In this downloadable mp3 audio interview (“podcast”) to PodTech.NET, Bessemer Ventures General Partner Rob Chandra talks about the industry segments that his firm is actively investing in these days, about…
Indiabulls on the rampage
Business Today has a fascinating profile of PE-backed stock broking and financial services firm Indiabulls (A) striking feature of Indiabulls is its ability to raise money. In 2000, it had…
An U-turn at i2?
Sanjiv Sidhu founded supply chain software i2 Technologies seems to have emerged back from the brink, says this BusinessWeek article, providing a lot of credit Michael McGrath, who took over…
Profile of ChrysCapital’s Ashish Dhawan
Business Today has published a detailed profile of ChrysCapital co-founder and Sr. Managing Director Ashish Dhawan, who has managed to successfully transform his firm from an early-stage, Internet services focused…
Why founder sales are actually a good idea
Venture capitalists never like deals where their money is used to buy the shares owned by founders and other early investors. They like their money to go “into building the…
The players in India’s gaming software sector
Business Today has a good article on India’s gaming software sector and its players. Mobile telephony! That’s what’s driving mass gaming in India. Telecom operators say subscribers are downloading 500,000…
How VCs can use Social Networking Tools
LinkedIn, one of the more promising “online social networking” firms, has a nice primer on how venture capitalists can use the service to improve deal flow and get executives and…