VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

The Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s visit to India this week has triggered a lot of “India and China” articles. Here are a few interesting extracts. From Businessworld’s cover story:…

Economic Times has a profile of ICICI Ventures CEO Renuka Ramnath with a special focus on her fondness for the retail sector. Definitely the first and one of the few…

I got the following unsolicited email today: I hope this finds you well, as you may already know, we specialize in assisting companies in Going Public. We also assist with…

McKinsey Quarterly has an article on the opportunites thrown up for the industry by the removal of world trade quota restrictions. India’s apparel industry faces a moment of truth when…

There is certainly a lot of action suddenly, as this Businessworld Cover Story shows: And a lot of investments going on as well: But are the players going to make…

Businessworld examines the opportunity in outsourcing of services like data analytics, patent examination, tax return preparation and market research. That is, stuff that can fetch billing rates of above the…

Here is Fred Wilson’s (of Union Square Ventures) answer to this often-asked question: I never place any value on the schools people went to and the degrees they have. It’s…

“You must always recognize that venture backed companies are not sold, they are bought. When the large company comes knocking on the door and offers a good deal, you should…

Quite a few VC bloggers have responded to Paul Graham’s essay on “The Unified Theory of VC Suckage”. “I do not aspire to defend VC’s. Like everything else, there are…

Venky Ganesan has taken exception to a MarketWatcharticle profiling Certus (formerly nth Orbit) and its co-founder Vani Kola. Ganesan’s problem is that “this article makes it out to be (that)…