This article amused me so I thought I would share it with you all. Today’s Hindustan Times has a front page article “No time for homework. Outsource it to Aunt Kaur”. For Rs. 350 you get your summer school project delivered to your doorstep in three hours. Guaranteed grade of B+ or higher. A detailed […]
Pentaho Receives $8M in Series B Funding
Leading Venture Capital Firms Invest in an Accelerated Growth Plan for The World’s Most Popular Open Source BI Suite Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular Open Source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced that it has received an additional $8M in funding in order to further fuel its accelerated growth. Pentaho’s existing investors, […]
Of Capital, Fear and Diet
Michael Sikorsky of Cambrian House a Crowd Sourced software play has written an interesting post, Raising capital: Six tips on Eating Fear. Interesting observations include: Most investors invest emotionally and then justify their decisions rationally. … You could have the most amateur answers in the world for how your business is going to operate and […]
Remembering Arun Kumar
Arun Kumar, President and MD, Flextronics Software, and a great inspiration for the techpreneur community in India/US passed away in San Diego, USA on July 7, 2006. While the details of how a routine checkup, and an angioplasty became a threat to his life are still unclear, it just reminds us how fragile life really […]
Bulletproof Startup
Madhu had posted this in a link. I think its a great piece, so am putting in a main post This is an interesting article on how to build a bulletproof start up on Business 2.0 – Link is here – http://i.cnn.net/money/magazines/business2/startups/bulletproof.pdf
Startups – how do you choose your people?
How are startups hiring people in India? What matters – Education, Background, Aptitude… Last few months at Vaatsalya, we have assessed ourselves on how well we have done on our people front. First off a few things about our business which will put this in context, a. All our hospitals are in non-metro areas (semi-urban […]
Rajat Gupta’s article: a classic
Dear readers, This is a nice article written by Rajat Gupta, former MD, McKinsey on “India needs more entrepreneurs”. A classic. Perhaps a little commercial on ISB but good reading: http://www.mckinsey.com/aboutus/mckinseynews/pressarchive/indiaentrenprenership.asp -Shiva Venkatraman
BOA website up
Band of Angels India website is up. It is intended to help entrepreneurs know more about BOA to see if they should approach BOA for angel investment. Entrepreneurs who read this could give feedback to Padmaja ( see contact tab on website) on how the site could be improved.
How do founders meet and decide to “DO A STARTUP”?
Hey readers, I am always bothered by one question in my mind: How do startup founders “form the initial team” ? For those of you who have read my startup culture report, comparing US, Japan and Indian startup cultures, we touched on some of that. However, I would be very keen on hearing some views […]
Startup Culture Report: Emailed to everyone who had asked for it
Hey readers, I have finally managed to get my hardware issues sorted out and emailed all of you who have requested the report. I am still a low-tech blogger; so I have asked Alok for help in posting this file somewhere on venturewoods. Please write to me individually about your thoughts. This was not a […]
Startup Mentoring Network
Anyone aware of a startup mentoring network in India. Not a traditional incubation type of setup, but a place where startups can identify mentors who might be able to guide on various issues. Maybe Venturewoods can take the lead here? Ashwin (vaatsalya.com)