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- The Startup Velocity Question
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India’s Real Estate Concerns
Bangalore’s real estate situation is concerning. Mumbai was already super expensive, and never considered a location for large IT/ITES operations. :: Mumbai’s commercial real estate market has appreciated considerably over the last one year. Rents in South Mumbai (CBD) for Prime and Grade A office space are up by 73% while capital values are up
Sequoia Enters Micro Finance
Those of you who read this blog regularly, know that I am a huge proponent of MicroFinance. Last week, an important piece of news item surfaced: Sequoia Capital has invested $11.5 Million in a Microfinance company called SKS. At the heels of Dr. Yunus’ Nobel Prize, this is a great development for the advancement of
India’s Scale Concerns: Real Estate
Economic Times, India confirms that Bangalore is bursting at the seams: :: The realty juggernaut brushed aside slowdown concerns in Bangalore going by the just released office space absorption figures for 2006. With Bangalore continuing to be a major IT/ITES hub, the absorption figure in 2006 in the country’s IT capital has reached a new
Raising Money in India
By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting from Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. The third panel featured an interactive discussion on “Raising & Leveraging Venture Capital” and was moderated by Manik Arora, Managing Director of IDG Ventures India. The entrepreneurs on the panel – Nitish Mittersain, Founder & CEO of Nazara Technologies
Platform-Oriented Mobile VAS
By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting from Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. Alok Mittal, Executive Director of Canaan Partners, emphasized the need for Mobile VAS companies to “own the customer” as well as directly create demand for their applications. This would be the best way for them to get a larger
Bite-Size Entertainment
By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting on the Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. The second panel on “Mobile VAS: Time to look beyond Ring Tones and Wallpapers?” was moderated by Sandeep Singhal, Managing Director of Nexus India Capital. Rajesh Sawhney, President of Reliance Entertainment, emphasized how entertainment outshone all other applications
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 8)
During her time with Microsoft, Maggie ran global business development and strategy, followed by the Government and Education businesses worldwide. Among her most challenging issues were protecting intellectual property rights and convincing governments in underdeveloped countries that IP was an issue that would hinder their development. SM: Did you work with China and India? MW:
Wisdom From the Trenches
By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting on the Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. Acknowledging that the Internet is becoming core to people’s lives and that there is room for various online business models, Ashish Gupta, Managing Director of Helion VC, pointed out some of the challenges facing investors in the Internet