When Startup Hype Meets Bureaucratic Guile
How can start-ups complain when the Prime Minister makes the government machinery work on a Saturday evening to unveil plans for making the country more Start-up friendly? The media coverage…
What does Foodtech & Hyperlocal Cos Giving Up on Tier II Cities mean?
One by one, well funded players in the foodtech and hyperlocal sectors – including leaders Zomato and Grofers – are announcing closing down of their operation in Tier II cities.…
The Indian Venture Capital Funnel: Darwinism at Work?
Extract from the Venture Intelligence India Venture Capital Report 2015: The Darwinian nature of the VC funding process means that there are several companies – at each funding stage –…
Why don’t Indian clones of Amazon care for its DNA?
Haresh Chawla has an biting beginning-of-the-year post for start-ups at Founding Fuel. There are two Indias: the top 10% that can afford your clone offering, and the remaining 90% that…
The Most Active Venture Capital Investors in India Display Diverging Investment Patterns Across 2015. What Does it Mean for The New Year?
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Private Equity investments surge 50% YoY to hit all time high of $16.8 B in 2015
Private Equity investments in India touched a record high of $16.8 billion in 2015 (across 661 deals), 16% higher than the previous high of $14.5 billion (across 529 deals) recorded…
Is there Any Downside to Active Entrepreneurs Making Angel Investments?
In an article titled “The Curious Case of Entrepreneur-Angels”, Santosh Sreedhar of Avalon Consulting and Neeraj Gupta of Excubator explore whether the founders Flipkart, SnapDeal, CommonFloor, etc. should be turning…
What went wrong at Avigo Capital? An Analysis of the Firm’s Portfolio
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Dr. Lal Pathlabs Signs off a Good Year for Private Equity-Backed IPOs
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Why Does India Celebrate Rahul Yadav?
The reason, according to Sumanth Raghavendra – in his post titled “Why a prize idiot like Rahul Yadav is precisely the kind of startup hero India deserves…and exactly the opposite…