Economic Times says Walmart to enter indian markets. But the timeline isnt decided yet. India will have more unemployed ppl as a giant like Walmart with so much cash at hand could raze local sellers. But it would generate few employment. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1401604.cms BANGALORE: The world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart is moving a senior official from its […]
Rumour or Reality
Only time will tell whether its just a rumour or it will be a reality. If the news published is true then Google is going to give Microsoft a scare. The news is Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core […]
Looking to join a startup
I am a 2nd year student at IIM Ahmedabad – one of those mentioned by Sanjay in his post. I am looking to join a startup company rather than one of the biggies which visit campus. I believe there would be far more learning and fun in this option. I have a B.Tech (CSE) and […]
Venture Woods Works
The one regret that I have on joining GISIL is that I will not have advisory bandwidth. Before joining GISIL two entrepreneurs connected with me based on my 10-10 thinking post. I visted them in Bhopal and Chandigarh and all of us found the interaction useful. I hope both these entrepreneurs do well and I […]
IIM Ahmedabad Talk
I visited Ahmedabad on Jan 13 as a judge for Anveshan ( B-plan contest) spoke to a few students at IIM Ahmedabad on entrepreneurship, elephants and joining startups. The response was very encouraging. A few students want to post on venture woods and connect with interesting early stage startups. There could be other bright folks […]
Joining Startup – Timing
Apologies for not posting for so long but I have been rather busy. I thought my startup days were over but I ended up investing some money and joining a startup in Gurgaon called GISIL. My dream was to create another elephant in the payment space and that matched GISIL’s aspirations. I joined Jan 18 […]
Healthcare Automation
Hi! Sorry I have been out of scene for a while with my posts. For the past couple of months what is really caught my attention is a concept called Unbound Healthcare, this basically means remote monitoring of patients who have small gadgets attached to their bodies which collect medical related informtion like Temperature Fluctuations, […]
Upcoming Venture
I am in the process of formalizing an entity. Looking for some “techno-business-savvy” minds in this process. Guys, don’t send too many queries at this stage, but do respond if you have some interest in participating. Constraint of being in Delhi-NCR region. 0
Venturewoods bloggers wake up!
Saw a couple of posts that the level of activity on venturewoods is decreasing — I am convinced that everything that has to be said hasn’t been said, so wake up! And yes, have seen some interesting comments from some people who are not registered authors — if any of them want to write their […]
Who is an entrepreneur?
Was seeing a TV show yesterday, and one of the people (now, an entrepreneur) mentioned that in his past jobs, he had always taken a goal and then given the resources at hand, had tried to make the best of it — and in that sense those jobs themselves were very entrepreneurial… Got me to […]
Thoughts from Bay area
Have been out here in bay area for past few days, and visibly out of action on venturewoods. Everytime I come here a couple of things hit me: 1. The infrastructure for startups to get going is great — right from office space onwards. There are literally hundreds of easy to move in/low lockin options […]
Why do Indian outsourcing majors not pursue open source ?
This question baffles me. After all, selling services around open source seems to be the future for a lot of the software world. Oracle made 70% of their revenues last year based on services. There are clear arguments to be made in capturing a large mindshare by introducing quality open source products and monetizing it […]