ICICI Venture plans to get even bigger
A $22 million plus investment to buy out the Tatas from their Yellow Pages publishing company (now called Infomedia India Limited); a $16 million investment in terry towel maker Welspun…
The Vinod Khosla difference
Extracts from Joe Kraus, co-founder of search engine company Excite, recent 2-part blog post – here and here – (on the importance of persistence) provide a good idea why Vinod…
Brazil targets $2-B in IT exports by 2007
Extracts from an interview given by Luiz Fernando Furlan, Brazil’s Minister of Development, Industry & Foreign Trade, to BusinessWeek magazine: We have a target to improve our IT exports to…
How Vinod Khosla created Sun Microsystems
While I knew the one line description “Vinod Khosla was the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems and was earlier part of the founding team at Daisy Systems”, I hadn’t come…
An argument for sweat equity friendly laws
In an article appearing in the Financial Express, Dr. Y.R.K.Reddy, Chairman, Yaga Consulting Pvt. Ltd., provides strong arguments on why the Indian government’s department of company affairs and SEBI must…
Is Bangalore shooting itself in the foot?
Bangalore’s increasingly intolerable infrastructure problems and the sky-rocketing salary expectations of its residents seem to be achieving what economic recession and the “outsourcing backlash” in the US, failed to achieve:…
Incubation programs at IIIM-Bangalore and IIT-Delhi
Financial Express has published a short profile of incubation programs at IIM-Bangalore and IIT-Delhi. Extract: IIM-Bangalore IIM-Bangalore, which started its incubation facility in 2000, has so far seen three IT…
Wipro Vice-Chairman Vivek Paul profiled in San Jose Mercury News
Some extracts: The 45-year-old Paul, a graduate of India’s Birla Institute of Technology who earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts, is an unapologetic believer…
Remote IT infrastructure management is the next big opportunity
The latest issue of Economist carries a detailed article saying that remote IT infrastructure management is the next big opportunity for Indian IT outsourcing companies like HCL and Wipro.
Zee TV to telecast business plan competition
Beginning January 2005, Zee Telefilms will air an 36-episode show in which entrepreneurs will get an opportunity to pitch their business plans on TV. This contest -type show will see…