This blog is an attempt to bring the Indian venture community closer together. All its constituents, right from the entrepreneurs themselves, venture capital firms, angel funds, lawyers, recruiters, investment bankers, incubation cells — the list goes on.
As an entrepeneur, then as an angel investor and private equity professional, I have felt that despite close alignment of our end goals, there exist vast gaps in our understanding of each other. Gaps which are often responsible for inefficiencies in the system. For example, the entrepreneurs’ collective understanding of what the “hot areas” are might be very different from the investors’ view — venturewoods is a platform to discuss, and not necessarily agree on, those views. This site is an attempt to prevent all of us from being lost in the woods.
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Hey,
This is an awesome blog….recently discovered it. I have one suggestion regarding the VentureJobs and VentureTalent section of this blog….can the posting be ordered in reverse-chronological order?…that would be really helpful for the readers.
Keep up the good work.
-Chinmay
I am a founder of gifting site indiawithlove.com an internet startup setup in 2001 when dot com bubble bursted in india. We survived through tough times with limited resources. And we are now ready to do something big with many more innovative ideas.
We require the funding to reach our goals.
Dharmendra Jaisinghani
Hi,
My name is Ashish and this is my first communication
on this website / blog. . I am a project visualizer by
profession and I like to think about large Infrastructure
projects and how they can be made commercially viable.
My purpose on this blog is to get people interested
in the Infrastructure Business which I have 14 years
of experience with. I have had the good luck of working with
some of the best minds from around the world in the
Energy and Infrastructure sectors and It might be ok If I
say that my bosses have found me to be a good student.
I have also been an oil derivatives trader for 5 years and
this has helped me to become very market focused in
my conceptualization and design of projects.
Please visit my website http://www.busybric.com . Its
India’s first ” Large Project ” visualization and development
company. I am interested in working with companies and
Private investors who want to make a considerable difference
to the way we look at Infrastructure in India.
Sincerely,
Ashish
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Market Commentary
For the period 2007- 2010
Please read on … for a different view of how the Indian
Infrastructure Business could develop over the next 3- 5
years. This view will be useful if you are a fund looking
for a different strategy in dealing with the developing
Market / Situation in the country.
While it could be argued that the Indian stock market
may see a correction and maybe the Real Estate
market may see some retracement, I feel the India
Story is just beginning to take off particularly in
Infrastructure.
In every market and Infrastructure is no exception,
leadership goes to those who see a gap and then
move to fill it . The Infrastructure sector is possibly
the most promising one right now where a newcomer
could become a leader by changing the structure
of the business.
Private Equity companies and Others need to
understand that the Indian opportunity is really
about mega projects. They need to look at it as
a derivative play. For example … I can buy a large
volume of futures by doing a leveraged transaction …
and just pay up margin money. In the same way ,
Investments in India need to be made in what I would
call catalysing agents or in companies that enable or
catalyse larger investments from a dozen other players.
If this approach is adopted , suddenly there will be a huge
project … and your small investment would have made it
possible for a large project to be born that catches not
only national but also global headlines.
The typical deals of the future will involve small
investments of the level of $ 30 Million in ventures or
project oriented companies that will put through
projects which are in the $ 5 – $ 10 billion range. Its
necessary to understand what this market is all about
… It will take time and effort and IMAGINATION to alter
the fundamental assumptions that everyone appears
to be working with.
India has not yet seen scale and some of us are here
to provide it. The real problem is that people are not
finding good enough projects.
Up until now … Its been … Someone makes a pioneering
move and the rest of the herd just rushes in and some
businesses like travel get crazy valuations. Its when this happens
that some deals in Businesses such as travel finally go
down as bad deals when VC’s find they have not got the
right people.
This market is about leverage and about investing
in a way that fundamentally alters a players stake.
In India you could grow from a $ 25 Million fund to
a $ 5 Billion fund … if you understand leverage …
and if you really know how to bring the Knowledge
business and its principles to the $ 100 Billion / year
Infrastructure market.
Theodore Roosevelt was the first after Abraham Lincoln to
bring Scale to the job. In the short time that he
held office he fundamentally changed the position
of the US in the global economy. But there
is one quote of his that I particularly like :
” Do what you can , with what you have , where you are ”
In that little quote , we have the answer that India seeks.
Greetings everybody,
It is that time of the year for me when i have some time to kill between the christmas break and newyears. It is the time when i start following almost every URL, interesting weblog and updates on entrepreunership. While i was at this, i stumble upon this web blog in India.Very interesting and my hearty congrats to the initiator.
I do find myself constantly amussed by the things going on in India. I am hoping i would find my niche in time. If you have updates on the following, i would very much appreciate it.
1) current status on Medical technology, R&D, goverment support? ( not pharma!)
2) are there any orthopaedic startups? ( bone substitution,regenration etc)
3) Do VC’s entertain such capital intensive investments in R&D within the medical sector ? ( not phrama)
4) Are there any sterile manufacturing units? ( is manufacturing catching up with the well known indian service sector)
5) What about the whole green energy thing? Are there companies developing biomass, solar, wind, hydro, alternative energy? Is that something that Indian’s living in India beleive in? Social responsibilty along with the added benefit of financial gains?
Anway, i would appreciate a dialgoue on this. I am quite interested what the community here has to say( the true benefits of social networks and dialogues). However, since i dont see a group, membership, forum, i wonder how one would go about this. Which makes me think that it would be very valuable for the founder of this website to include such a feature ( just a suggestion). Or maybe not? does it fall out of the focus at this forum?
Alternatively, we could meet over email manavben@gmail.com and then take it from there.
Best,
manav
Hi Natesh,
Feel free to drop me a line at kmr.dilip@gmail.com
If ur particularly looking out for technology transfer or licensing support,we can be a potential solution partner for this.
Best Regards
Dilip