Why ICICI Venture’s Renuka Ramnath is smitten by the retail sector
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…
Hey, wanna go public?
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…
Moment of truth for the Indian textiles industry
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…
Is publishing a good investment opportunity?
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…
The appeal of value-added BPO services
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…
“Do I need a MBA to become a VC?”
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…
Why Aruba said no to Cisco
“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…
VCs respond to Paul Graham’s “VCs Suck” post
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…
Want to re-write your company’s past? Don’t forget the Wayback Machine and Google’s cache
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)…
Sunil Bharti Mittal planning to incubate start-ups
Business Standard has an article on Bharti Group founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal’s future plans, which includes an equity fund to invest in new ventures outside the group. According…