Standard and Poor says America is getting POOR. Economists ,capitalists,governments and people are discussing the fallout of such a situation. But what does it mean for an entrepreneur.In case somebody has misssed recent article by Jug Suraiya in TOI ,here it is http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/jugglebandhi/entry/debt-do-us-part .Wherein the associate writer mentions that in this knowledge economy ,US started producing everying […]
Organic Entrepreneurship – Article in Inc
Latest issue of Inc carries an article on Organic Entrepreneurship – the opportunities and challenges of supporting entrepreneurship beyond metros in India. Read on. Inc – organic entrepreneurship View more documents from Alok Mittal. 0
How iYogi Got Its First Funding
Vishal from iYogi shares his perspective on what worked for them while raising their first round of financing from Canaan. Read on… 0
Recent interview with TheDeal.com
I spoke recently to George White at TheDeal.com regarding the investment opportunities and exit expectations in the Indian market. See here. Indian tech companies head to public markets from The Deal on Vimeo. 0
Ideas, New Possibilities to “EMERGEOUT†on August 12th in Gurgaon
It is that time of the year again when you should block your calendars for the annual EMERGEOUT Conclave in Gurgaon. Given the number of ideas that you’d walk away with, the industry leaders you’ll get to listen to as well as the networking opportunities, the EMERGEOUT Conclave offers the very best ‘bang for the […]
Omnivore Capital (OC): Weekly Office Hours [via Skype]
Subhadeep and I are starting weekly office hours online via Skype video conference calls (one or both of us will attend every week). Any entrepreneur or startup that is interested in agriculture and rural India can sign up for the office hour slots. You don’t have to pitch us – you can just ask us […]
NASSCOM EMERGEOUT 2011 – New age opportunities for software companies
Unarguably, the next drivers of the Indian Tech Industry will be in the domain of Cloud and Mobile. In the next 5 years, the number of Internet users is expected to increase by three-fold, to a whopping 300 million. This penetration will most certainly include the semi-urban segment which is largely out of the ambit […]
Business coaching for entrepreneurs
I recently left the venture capital world to set up a business coaching practice and wrote the following piece for a venture capital related publication. Pasting it below, and would love to get the forum’s thoughts on how they perceive the value of coaching. From Venture Capitalist to Business Coach After several years of working with […]
CC is Evil
Well not all, but some of it definitely is. To know why we say that, lets dig into why we CC people on emails in the first place: 1) The “You must know this CC” – There is nothing wrong with this one. Example: I direct a question to someone in the To list, and […]
Call For Tech Startups To Demo @UnPluggd Event [Application Deadline:J...
Grab an opportunity to demo your product at UnPluggd, India’s largest startup event that brings together amazing entrepreneurs, active angel investors and a bunch of ‘unpluggd’ stories (of failure, rejection and success!). The event is scheduled for July 9th (Bangalore/details here) and last date to apply for the demo slot is June 26th (link to the […]
Indian Entrepreneur Mindset
Indian entrepreneurs typically think innovation means invention or product innovation… But, to be a successful grocery store owner also, you need to innovate enough… thanks Pradyot http://www.crunchbase.com/person/pradyot-sahu Innovation Engineering http://www.facebook.com/innoengineering Innovation Engineering Forum http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3759712 0
Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals
During today’s roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Two of them, Freshdesk and Bizosys (10Screens), are 1M/1M premium members, and we have already been working on their strategies for a few weeks. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk, a SaaS company that provides small and medium […]