The Economist speaks on Venture Capital
Now that VC firms have started to attract and raise new funds–after a 3-year drought–The Economist magazine has felt a need to advice VCs not to get overly excited this…
Vani Kola featured in Always On
A panel discussion featuring Vani Kola, Founder & CEO of enterprise risk management software firm Nth Orbit, has been published in the AlwaysOn Network (AO) “blogzine”. The site features excerpts…
“US programmers can’t get work even at lower salaries”: BusinessWeek column
Cost is cited as the primary reason why US companies send programming work to India. So, if American programmers were willing to work for less, companies should be more than…
Some useful ideas
Business Today magazine recently brought out a special issue titled “An Ideas Superpower”. The issue featured some interesting profiles of people like Avesthagen founder Villoo Morawala Patell, IIT-Madras’ Prof. Ashok…
The coming drought for BPO IPOs
By Arun Natarajan At a time when the center of gravity of the global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is moving inexorably towards India, it is ironical that public investors…
Fake “Kleiner Perkins VC” arrested
Shamoon “Sam” Rafiq, who illegally “sold” $3 million in Google stock posing as a partner at famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB), was arrested…
What exactly does July Systems do?
The July Meta-Service System (JMSS) is a 3G compliant service delivery platform that allows operators to rapidly deploy and deliver premium mobile data services, by tying together various entities in…
Orbiting towards profitability on Sarbanes-Oxley booster
A meeting with Vani Kola, Founder & CEO, Nth Orbit By Arun Natarajan “Study finds women lagging in venture capital race” reads the headline of a March 26 Mercury News…