How Symphony bags offshore development orders from software product vendors
While doing development out of India has become a “no brainer” for all enterprise software product companies, the most “obvious” way to go about exploiting the India advantage has been…
Promod Haque plays traveling salesman for portfolio cos.
At a time when pretty much all VCs in Silicon Valley are pushing their portfolio companies to open R&D centers in India, Promod Haque, Managing Partner at Norwest Venture Partners…
Red Herring profiles MIT biz plan winner Kailas Narendran
Red Herring magazine has published an offbeat interview with Kailas Narendran, a 25-year-old researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, who co-created a device that provides…
Everything you wanted to know (and some things you didn’t care to know) about ChrysCapital’s Ashish Dhawan
New Delhi-based private equity fund ChrysCapital is vastly different from its former avatar, Chrysalis Capital. While Chrysalis began life (in Mumbai) as an venture capital firm focussed on start-up investments,…
Guy on Google’s Gamble
In an interview to Red Herring, Guy Kawasaki, founder of investment banking firm Garage.com, had this to say about Google’s plan to make its IPO via a “dutch auction” model:…
Quiet Period T-Shirts for CEOs on IPO track
Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly attended Wall Street Journal’s “All Things Digital” conference wearing a T-Shirt that read “quiet period” on the front and “can’t answer questions” on the back.…
Vinod Khosla warns against nanotech bubble
Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley most successful VCs, has warned against nanotechnology companies going public too early. According to a report in Private Equity Week, Khosla has severely criticized…
How offshoring is changing Silicon Valley
It is quite well known that today, most Silicon Valleys VCs demand that their portfolio companies have an “India-China” strategy. But what impact will this increasing drive towards offshoring have…
Business Today profiles MphasiS
Business Today magazine recently featured Barings Private Equity and ChrysCapital funded IT and BPO services company, MphasiS Group, on its Cover Story.
How IBM relates to VC-backed startt-ups
IBM has 18 business development executives dedicated to working with venture capitalists and their portfolio companies, says a report in CNET News.com . Under a program, started about three years…