Why do Bill Gurley & Jason Fried Hate Unicorns?
Silicon Valley VC and Benchmark Capital partner Bill Gurley has been calling a bubble for a couple of years now. Gurley explains why he is so concerned with bubbles in…
Businessworld article on Startup Acquisitions
Businessworld has an article based on Venture Intelligence data on VC-backed startups acquiring their peers. Venture Intelligence is the leading provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions…
Why won’t NSE & BSE eat their own dog food – aka become listed entities themselves?
The Firm show on CNBC-TV18 has a report enquiring into why the leading Indian stock exchanges – BSE and NSE – haven’t gone public themselves – especially after raising Private…
VC-backed Startups Solving Exit Problem?
Economic Times has an infographic based on Venture Intelligence data on the phenomenon of VC-backed startups acquiring their peers. The Venture Intelligence infographic on the same phenomenon: Venture Intelligence is…
How Many E-Tailers Will Remain Standing by Diwali 2016?
Alok Goyal of SAIF Partners (and prior to that CEO of FreeCharge and redBus) writes in Economic Times: According to various industry sources, the total burn rate across the top…
TinyOwl Tamasha Triggers Advise Avalanche
A lot of pontification is flying around for TinyOwl, the food ordering startup that’s landed in big trouble – much like the other young IIT Bombay alumni founded startup Housing.com.…
CanBank Venture Capital Fund to manage Government of India’s Electronics Development Fund
From the Press Release: As part of Digital India Agenda, Government of India it is envisaged to develop the Electronic System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) and IT Sector to achieve…
Why Uber is Not Going to Stop Anyone (in India) from Owning A Car Anytime Soon
Deepak Shenoy of Capital Mind has an interesting post on MediaNama titled “The Economics of Using Uber in India”. Extracts: Uber advertises its lowest fare in Bangalore at Rs. 7…
Why Private Equity Investors are Very Hungry!
If Venture Capital (VC) investors are busy chasing Internet & Mobile companies, how are their Private Equity cousins keeping busy? Some of them at least are gobbling up food businesses:…
VC Firm Ventureast invites Pitches via Twitter!
Ventureast brings to you “The 160 character Pitch” challenge. If you are an entrepreneur looking to get your start-up funded, or have a disruptive business idea, pitch to us in…