From contractors to designers
Whether Indian IT services companies make this shift and embrace innovation and R&D based excellence will determine whether India will “find its place in the sun in the years to…
Ray Lane interview in BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek has an interview with KPCB partner and former Oracle executive Ray Lane. I was always afraid I was entering into a new business, a new career — venture capital.…
Why organizational stability is important for VC firms
Going by what a former LP investor says (as part of his comments on Paul Kedrosky’s posting), VC firms who face significant churn will find it difficult to raise their…
What wannabe VCs need to raise their first fund
Paul Kedrosky has some advise for wannabe VCs on how to raise their first fund: (Have) some combination of the following: 1. Proprietary deal flow 2. A (good) investment track…
How the “overhang” affects the VC business
Jim Breyer, Partner at Accel Partners, spells it out nicely as part of a Churchill Club roundtable featured in the AlwaysOn Network. We still are in a business which is…
OATSystems in trouble?
Jeff Nolan of SAP Ventures has “heard” that Prasad Putta and Sridhar Ramachandran co-founded OATSystems, a Watertown, MA based provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) software, is up for sale.…
And the biggest acquirer of IT companies is..
Via Brad Feld: No major surprises. Nevertheless, nice to see it represented visually. Arun Natarajan is the Editor of TSJ Media, which tracks venture capital activity in India and Indian-founded…
Vinod Khosla beyond KPCB
Business Week’s Deal Flow Blog has an article on what Vinod Khosla has been up to post his decision not to participate as a General Partner in KPCB’s (Kleiner Perkins…
What Microsoft looks for in an potential acquiree
Will Price reports from Microsoft’s VC Summit in Mountain View on what MSFT – according to its CEO Steve Ballmer – looks for when it considers acquiring a company: *…
Meetings without cell phones and Blackberrys
Will Price reports from Microsoft’s VC Summit in Mountain View on how MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer does not carry a Blackberry or a cell phone during the work day. He…