Finding the money to build India’s infrastructure
Businessworld has a cover story on the challenges facing the building (and financing) of India’s physical infrastructure: “Year 2005 is the year of Indian infrastructure, and it is the private…
Teaching US students from India
Businessworld profiles the new “offshore tuitions” opportunity which involves teachers in India helping US kids improve their test scores: The Karol Bagh centre of Educomp Datamatics could easily be one…
The opportunity and challenges in automobile design outsourcing
Businessworld has published a cover story on the trends in the outsourcing of automobile design work to India: Several companies like Ford, General Motors (GM), DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW,…
IIT-B start-up Powai Labs to launch chip testing system
Businessworld profiles Powai Labs, an IIT-Bombay incubated start-up that is close to launching a chip testing system: Powai Labs, after two years of existence, is ready to launch its first…
Patents are like nuclear bombs, you just got to have some
Fred Wilson writes at his blog: I have never seen patents make a business, but I have seen lack of patents hurt a business on many occasions. So this line,…
Dot Edu ventures parts ways with Naval Ravikant
As pointed out in a New York Times article linked here last week, three of the five founders of e-commerce firm Epinions – including Naval Ravikant and Ramanathan Guha –…
Difference between a founder and a CEO
Michael Simmons quoting a speech by Paul Orfalea, founder and chairman Emeritus of Kinkos: He made a great distinction between people managing their career (CEO) and managing their business (Owner).…
“Lemons ripen early, pearls take longer”
From Fred Wilson’s blog post: The bad deals reveal themselves to you early and you have to deal with the fact you made a bad investment and figure out how…
Foreign Investment caps in other sectors
The Hindu also provided a roundup of the current status of foreign investment caps in other sectors: Civil Aviation: for airlines, the current foreign direct investment (FDI) cap is 49…
Foreign investment limit in telecom services hiked
From The Hindu: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the long-deliberated proposal to hike the ceiling of composite foreign direct investment (FDI) in the telecom sector to 74 per cent…