Dave has a great writeup on reforming the VC industry (at least in consumer internet segment). Looks pretty 2.0ish to me — but perhaps the first 2.0 idea that makes sense 🙂 – disintermediate the LPs and GPs (the overhead and loss of information here is not funny) – users who invest in this fund […]
ABC News on India
Very positive coverage – Video 0
Bangalorelive.in
I like this stuff — the concept seems very relevant, not much competition on city specific portals. The key is how local it can become — looks like largely a content driven play, but user participation is important. 0
Micro Venture Capital Fund
A venture capital fund with a difference. Quite removed from the world of IT start-ups, Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund or Aavishkaar India concerns itself with rural enterprises and grassroots innovations that have the potential to improve the quality of life in the interiors of the country. It hopes to do so by encouraging […]
Web 2.0 – Profitability?
I was going to discuss some thoughts on Web 2.0 profitability, and I think some readers on this blog will be familiar with my disdain for “get the eyeballs, revenues will come” mindset (have been hurt once on that!). Am beginning to hear more and more of that again… Some entrepreneurs point to Adsense as […]
Bar Camp Chennai – Come, Geek & Rock!
BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. It’s an unconference, so everybody will participate in the happenings, unlike traditional conferences, where one person talk and the other’s listen. India’s first BarCamp […]
Business Today coverage of Knowcross and Band of Angels
Business Today has an article on Band of Angels, and its investment in Knowcross. Knowcross – Band of Angels – Business Today pdf from the print version. Acknowledgements and thanks to BT for the same. As you might have seen, Knowcross is looking to hire great people. 0
Knowcross – First investment by Band of Angels India
Am pleased to announce the first investment made by Band of Angels India — Knowcross develops next-gen products for the hospitality industry. Its customers include leading hotels such as Oberoi, Hyatt, Intercontinental and Radisson around the world. We are very excited about investing in a global product company coming out of India, and are very […]
DotCom
Is it a slow wave of dot-com boom in india? Why are people putting their money on dotcoms….what i fail to understand is the fact that dotcom was written off as dead, but now its springing up bring some investments. WestBridge Capital Partners announcing an investment of $8 million in Shaadi.com. Makemytrip taking B-series funding […]
Good blog on SaaS
A very good blog on SaaS by Howard Smith. http://saassightings.blogspot.com/ 0
Sabeer Bhatia – VoiFi, ArZoo & Hotmail
The posterboy of the Web 1.0 era is back. After the successful buyout of hotmail, Sabeer worked on couple of things, which dint click well. He ran Arzoo and then he made InstaColl but nothing matches along with his hotmail success. Going thru the news read at agencyfaqs!, it seems he is now back with […]
Investor Ecosystem
I was curious and wanted to know what all transpires within the investor ecosystem. Since SEs wouldnt be of much help in this regard so what better place to ask than VentureWoods. To keep it within the scope of the site, ‘investors’ can be restricted to mean angels and non-corporate VCs. However it would be […]