Have been out here in bay area for past few days, and visibly out of action on venturewoods. Everytime I come here a couple of things hit me:
1. The infrastructure for startups to get going is great — right from office space onwards. There are literally hundreds of easy to move in/low lockin options ideal for startups
2. The ecosystem in terms of involving experienced executives still working at other firms is there — this is more a matter of mental openness than anything else, but the “pre startup” phase seems to be doing well.

Hi Alok,
Thanks for starting the blog on venture community in India. It’s a good source of information.
I am a management science student at Stanford (Class of ‘06). I am doing research on Indian VCs and I want to know your opinions on the early stage and private equity investments in India.
I was wondering if we can meet up sometime this weekend or the next week since you are already in the Bay Area.
Regards,
Ankur
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Email: ankjain -’at’- stanford dot edu
Ph: 650-740-3435
Folks,
There are ~15 members contributing to this group blog, hope to see a lot more traffic around in this place compared to what exists as of now . C onversations will ensue only when someone starts a conversation and in a blog it is only the blogger who can do it. Would like to see more posts around here.
Rajan
Its been like 10 days now … no new posts … Whats going on :)?