http://www.venturewoods.org India's leading venture capital and startup blog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:01:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Very interesting post on why "fail fast" philosophy might be ill-founded. I think partly this mantra is open to interpretation - if an idea is not working, do you wish to spend $10M on it and then realize it, or quicker? In the manner that this article refers to it, ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2010/03/17/die-another-day/ Hilarious! http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2010/03/10/thats-when-you-know-a-startup-has-made-it/ ToI reports a 18000 crore broadband push by government to improve broadband access to every gram panchayat. While the initiative is welcome, it raises several questions: Investing versus creating an environment to invest: Government spending at such massive scale has been shown to be inefficient over and over again. What are ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2010/03/05/rs-18000-crore-broadband-push-is-this-in-the-right-direction/ The Next50 Global Innovation Challenge is an IIT Kanpur Golden Jubilee Alumni Initiative to identify 50 early stage innovators in Agriculture, Cleantech, Financial Inclusion, Education and Technology, who can change the way we work and live. Innovators stand to win awesome cash awards, named prizes and access an exclusive ecosystem of ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2010/03/05/iit-kanpur-golden-jubilee-initiative-the-next50-global-innovation-challenge/ Ah well, before you ask me, why another startup event?, here is the core philosophy behind the event: Focus on Business – Over the last three years, we all have seen great products not going anywhere. Some of the companies who became the next hype, are now figuring ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2010/02/25/unpluggd-%e2%80%93-the-event-for-entrepreneurs/ Its really good to see a bunch of active initiatives and discussions around providing support to the young entrepreneurs who are just getting started. The Morpheus (previously known as, Morpheus Venture Partners) is one such initiative. The Morpheus is a business accelerator and we work with companies at idea / early ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2010/02/24/morpheus-announces-dates-for-next-batch-to-invest-5-l-per-startup/ I am very grateful to you all for the response to my previous article: Funding for Real Innovation in India ! Unavailable. Many of you wrote to me as well as extended action/offers to the DCE AUV team. What was however in my opinion the best outcome, happened right in ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2010/02/23/dreamcatchers-call-to-action/ Interesting concept here - www.growvc.com - entrepreneurs can now raise money from the community, kiva style. And they can invest their money into other startups to diversify their risk. With some strong on-ground facilitation (and an incentive model for the same) this can work... Thoughts? http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2010/02/15/growvc-community-angel-investing/ “The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. “ This is what President Obama said in his recent State of the Union address. Building the clean energy economy is not easy. Entrepreneurs have to start building businesses, investors will have to ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2010/02/03/building-the-green-entrepreneurial-eco-system-city-by-indian-city/ IBF Media, through Capital Connection, is organising an event around Cloud Computing on February 25, 2010 at Ista Hotel, Bangalore The Latest Trends in Cloud Computing: An Operators and Investors Perspective This event showcases some of the latest trends in cloud computing and looks at some of the successful business models and ... http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2010/01/27/ibf-media-event-on-cloud-computing/