“Champagne year for investment bankers”
Businessworld magazine has declared 2004 as a “Champagne year” for investment bankers thanks to the large number of IPOs and cross-border M&A activity. Arun Natarajan is the Editor of TSJ…
Telecom “Hot-Box” company Tejas Networks’ 3rd Round investment to last until exit: VC
The $15 million third round funding raised by Bangalore-based telecom equipment firm Tejas Network’s will be the last round before the company goes public or gets acquired, BusinessWeek’s newly launched…
“VC bubble forming in late-stage investments in China”
From a Businessweek interview with DCM-Doll Capital Management’s David Chao Q: Which sectors look attractive in China? A: There are a lot of semiconductor-design companies that work on next-generation chips.…
VC, Entrepreneur collaborate to start new blog
In an interesting experiment, Venky Ganesan, a Managing Director with Globespan Capital, and Narasimha Chari, Co-founder and Chief Architect at Tropos Networks, have come together to create a blog, VenChar,…
“All VC firms will have blogs”: VC Journal
I’m quite proud about spotting and writing one of the first articles (way back in early September 2004) on the trend of VCs taking to blogging. I wrote about it…
Gung ho about going global
Software and BPO services aren’t the only areas where Indian companies are competitive on a global scale. Private equity investors have realized this early and voted with their cheque books…
The rise of the “product development services” company
Software services are an old story. Product companies – except for a few exceptions – have not taken off (for the usual set of reasons: marketing costs are prohibitive, etc.…
TSJ Media featured in Business Standard article on Silicon Valley VCs investing in India
In 2004, up to November, venture capital and private equity funds invested over $820 million in India-based companies, according to data from TSJ Media, the Chennai-based firm that tracks venture…
The rush to manufacture mobile phones in India
Businessworld magazine has published an article on why there has been a flurry of activity, interest and announcements in the recent times for manufacturing mobile telephone handsets in India. So,…
“Determination to succeed is what counts”: 24/7 Customer CEO
What could be new or interesting about “yet another VC-backed BPO Firm” launching yet another call center facility? Luckily for me, I did not let this question dissuade me from…