When is a start-up no longer a start-up?
What exactly is a startup? According to Y Combinator founder Paul Graham: A team of good people making something customers actually want and spending as little money as possible to…
Chinese investors go head to head with traditional investors in investing in India: Business Standard
A Business Standard article, quotes Venture Intelligence data on investment by Chinese investors in India: According to data from research firm Venture Intelligence Hillhouse has participated in the $65 million…
Why GoZoomo shut down & returned VC money and What It Means
A TechInAsia article chronicles GoZoomo’s story and its shut down: The issues faced by the peer-to-peer used car marketplace company were: 1. Poor unit economics due to low conversions for…
Co-founder Quitting? Do you have these Protective Clauses?
“(Ashok) Arora, a B-Tech from IIT-Bombay (a colleague said he walked into the entrance exam unprepared and came out with flying colours), who wrote most of the critical programs for…
Making Indian Entrepreneurship More Desi
Cross posted from The Startup Journey Blog Writing in Founding Fuel, Baba Prasad, CEO of Vivekin Group who teaches entrepreneurship in B-Schools, bemoans the fact that a lot of the…
RBL Bank: PE Backed IPO Analysis
Login into the Venture Intelligence Deal Database and click on the below links to view transaction and other details: RBL Bank Company Profile & PE Investments in the Company Venture…
What’s Next for Fintech?
Data from the Venture Intelligence Venture Capital Deals Database shows that, even in 2015, when E-Commerce/Online Retail was ruling the roost (grabbing over 45% of the investments), Fintech investments had…
How to Trigger Explosion of the Angel Investment Market in India? Ask for Less!
Prajakt Raut of Applyfi feels more startups need to ask for INR 50 lakh cheques versus wasting precious time trying to raise INR 3 Cr in their first angel round.…
The Colorful Story of Div Turakhia & the Media.Net Exit
On August 23, Dubai and New York-based ad-tech firm Media.net announced its acquisition by Chinese Consortium led by Zhiyong Zhang, the chairman of Beijing Miteno Communication Technology Co. Ltd, in…
Government Standing Up to Foster Startups: Archana Khosla, Vertices Partners
“The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow” ― Shannon L. Alder Gone are the days of uncertainty and incertitude…