VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

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…

E-Loan puts positive spin to offshoring “Opt for India to get your work done faster”: E-Loan; “Yes, we’d like that”: customers At a time when other US companies are playing…

“Offshoring an ‘brain drain’ for the US” In an article titled “An Unseen Peril of Outsourcing” in BusinessWeek Online, columnist David Gumpert warns US companies that in sending work offshore,…

Bioinformatics: the market that never was? The bioinformatics market, once touted as the “the next big opportunity” for Indian IT services companies, never really took off. So much so that…

The Zenta Group story The Philadelphia Inquirer has profiled US and India-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm Zenta Group. The article provides some hitherto unknown facts about Zenta as well…

Hurdles facing the US biotech industry could benefit Indian cos. “For all the enthusiasm that beats through the veins of the biotech industry, it remains a risky business, prone to…

Where is Intel Capital headed Though it has earned $3 billion on its investment portfolio over its 13-year history, Intel Capital lost $1.1 billion over the last three years. But…

Best practices for cross-border companies With Silicon Valley VCs pushing portfolio companies to India and Ishoni Networks already a case study on how not to handle an offshore operation, there…

Vinod Khosla to go part-time at KPCB, to be more active in India: reports Ace entrepreneur-turned-VC Vinod Khosla is to go part time at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the…

From fighting VCs to funding Hindi films In a new column for BusinessWeek Online, Vivek Wadhwa, Founder, Chairman and former CEO of US-based enterprise software firm Relativity Technologies, talks about…