VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

Rajiv Gupta, an former HP executive who co-founded and sold Confluent Software (a Sunnyvale, CA-based provider of software for managing Web services) to Oblix in February 2004, has created a…

Mumbai-based Dickenson Intellinetics has launched “VC Guide for India 2004-05” providing profiles of national and international Venture Capital/Private Equity that have a keen interest in India. Using a standard template…

China has a very strong government and a weak corporate sector. India has a weak government and a strong corporate sector. Some extracts from an interesting interview in Businessworld with…

# Unless your best friend in the world — whom you happen to have embarrassing pictures of — is a VC partner, please do not contact any VC. It makes…