http://www.venturewoods.org India's leading venture capital and startup blog Thu, 15 May 2008 21:51:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interesting Post Where Are India’s Innovative Companies, Products and Solutions? India produces some of the brightest minds in technology, science and medicine yet has not demonstrated any truly large scale and breakthrough innovations in those fields. more here I mean.....why NOT fill the gaps? http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2008/05/16/where-are-india%e2%80%99s-innovative-companies-products-and-solutions/ The Churchill Club’s annual Top 10 Tech Trends Dinner discussion post is here.  The panel has some cool VCs in it. The post has important predictions and some cool factoids In Europe, cell phones are 8% of credit card payments  Projectors in cell phones in next two years. More than one camera per cell phone About 90% ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2008/05/15/mobile-devices-will-rule-in-the-next-5-years/ Here are pointers to the articles so far in this series: Preface MIT India:  Engineering Education Urja: Global Fashion Brand Lucid: K-12 Education MIT India and Urja have also generated a great deal of discussion, which I welcome you to read and participate in. Lucid is a new piece, and I expect, will generate similar discussion ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2008/05/14/vision-india-2020-series-multi-billion-dollar-venture-ideas/ Hi - Last date for submitting entries for TiE Canaan Challenge has been extended to 25th May. We are seeing a good response. Also, CNBC TV18 has been roped in to feature the Winners and the working of Challenge in three series. Regards, Mukul http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2008/05/11/tie-canaan-challenge-deadline-extension/ A nice little stat to chew on a sunday morning.    PS : "Transit" refers to Public/mass transit systems. http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2008/05/11/trips/ Another day, another idea. This time, it is TrendWatching. I define TrendWatching as a disciple where one observes (not sees), engages people in conversations (not interviews), identifies what is popular (not market research) and finally using these popular social objects to help businesses. Why TrendWatching? Market research as we know it is dead. ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2008/05/09/trendwatching-in-india/ I recently did two interviews with two very different but passionate entrepreneurs: Deepak Shenoy, co-founder of Moneyoga and Dr. Girish Saraph of Vegayan Systems. Over the past year or so I have spent a fair amount of time talking to both of them and have followed their journey as ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2008/05/08/two-entrepreneur-interviews-deepak-shenoy-of-moneyoga-and-girish-saraph-of-vegayan-systems/ From the news today (sorry, no link) Reliance Industries has shut all of its 1,432 petrol pumps in the country after sales dropped to almost nil as it could not match the subsidized price offered by public sector players. The company owned less than 3% of the 36,936 petrol pumps in ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2008/05/08/sustainable/ Cast Away is an awesome movie. You see it and you come back with two things. One, Tom Hanks survives the lonely island. And Two, he is a FedEx employee and he delivers that Wilson ball in the end. Then there is a book called How Starbucks saved my life. ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2008/05/07/business-idea-branded-entertainment/ This is a new series in which I invite readers to take a journey with me into the future through the minds of multiple entrepreneurs, who by addressing the opportunities I see today, will perhaps shape the future of India. But in this series, we will close our eyes, and exist ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2008/05/07/vision-india-2020-preface/