How to join the VC/PE industry
Seth Levine of Mobius VC has a few tips for MBAs and wannabee MBAs keen to join the Venture Capital/Private Equity industry: Understand the math. The partners are quite literally…
Can HR services firms do justice when it comes to hiring VCs?
Recently, we have tracked several appointments and movements in the Indian VC/PE industry in our Venture Intelligence India newsletters. There has been a lot of churn at India-based firms as…
A tech VC calls it quits
Howard Anderson’s article in Technology Review magazine on why he belives the VC business – at least, the IT-focused part – is no longer a great one is attracting a…
How US equity research is parcelled out to India
Stephen Castellano has a post on which elements of US equity research can be outsourced to India: While I do not think every function within equity research can be outsourced,…
Microsoft’s VC Summit
Jeff Clavier posts on Microsoft’s annual meeting with Silicon Valley VCs in their “own backyard”: Every year, Microsoft hosts a VC Summit involving 100+ Microsoft senior executives and 200+ venture…
Venture Intelligence India is “Blog of the Day” at BlogStreet
Venture Intelligence India is the Blog of the Day for May 19 at BlogStreet India. Not sure how this works, but am nevertheless happy to note from their profile information…
US VC firms in India: They came, they saw and now they are investing
The efforts by Silicon Valley Bank and TiE in 2004, in bringing a long line of US VCs to visit India, are bearing fruit in 2005 as actual investments in…
New vigor at New Vernon
New Vernon Capital, a New Jersey based fund founded by former Merrill Lynch global executive VP Arshad Zakaria, has stepped up its investments in India. In May, the fund’s Mauritus…
Panel on VC funding scene in the US
Extracts from a report on a recent panel discussion organized by IBD Network on the US VC funding scene: * Where venture dollars are going (consensus): Open Source software, wireless,…
Profile of IDFC’s new CEO
Businessworld has a profile of Rajiv Lall, the newly appointed CEO of Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (IDFC) and former Managing Director at Warburg Pincus. Arun Natarajan is the Editor of…