Great article on what creates a valuable company – while the article is rooted in a discussion around “revenue multiples”, the key characteristics it outlines seem generally true for valuable companies. Summary: 1. Sustainable competitive advantage 2. Network effects 3. Revenue visibility 4. Customer lock-in 5. Gross Margins 6. Marginal profitability/ Profit scalability 7. Customer […]
Pioneering Spirit – Call for entries
Canaan is pleased to partner with Lufthansa in this year’s edition of Pioneering Spirit. Apply now!
High-Octane Energy In Pune
On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event. Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Well, Persistent Systems and IncuCapital hosted a highly interactive and engaging session. Here are the companies that pitched at the […]
McKinsey report – Impact of Internet
McKinsey has come out with an interesting report on impact of internet on GDP of countries. As per this, Internet contributes to 3.4% of GDP in these countries, and 21% of GDP growth in mature countries. For India, the numbers are 3.2% and 5% respectively. Policy makers – get it right! Internet matters: The Net’s […]
Canaan backed ABH acquired by Shire for $750M
Pleased to share the acquisition of Advanced Biohealing, a Canaan backed company, earlier this week. An extremely positive exit for the Company and for Canaan Partners, ABH’s largest shareholder. Congratulations to Kevin Rakin and the team! More details here.
SeedFund Event @ Delhi : After Funding What: Building High Growth Star...
 After Funding What?Seedfund and TiE presents the secrets of fast-growth startups.How did CarWale vault to the no.1 position among car portals? Or Redbus do to grow to 10,000 tickets a day from just 10? What ‘s Edusports secret sauce in signing 100 school customers in 10 months? TiE invites you to ask founders.Seedfund comes to […]
Introducing PowerPlug–The Monthly Contest For Indian Technology Entr
I am super excited to introduce the PowerPlug contest, a unique contest targeted towards early stage startups in India. With PowerPlug contest, we wanted to bring out (and recognize) amazing Indian technology startups on a continuous basis. That is, go deep inside the rice fields & animal sheds of the startup farms. As part of […]
Quigley Report – Predicting a Venture Capital Revival
An interesting report predicting that venture capital asset class will make a strong revival over next 10 years. Key reasons: public markets are finally rewarding value like never before (interesting information on IPO valuations and multiples of some iconic tech companies), the demand-supply equation within venture asset class has swung to being favorable with only […]
Atish Babu Office Hours
Sorry for the short notice. Did not expect to have office hours this week, but had a few hours open tonight and decided to schedule it at the last moment. Let’s meet! Just posted new @Ohours for Sun, May 08 http://ohr.me/lDhZul
1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network
On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). While in Mumbai, I also finalized a deeper partnership with IAN, which I will discuss later in this post. I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. After the event, I received an e-mail from […]
Omnivore Capital: Atish Babu Office Hours
I will be holding office hours this Sat Apr 30 from 7:30pm IST / 10am EDT / 7am PDT for two hours. Each slot is 15 minutes long, and will occur over video (so please have a webcam if you sign up for a slot). To sign up for a time slot, please visit http://ohr.me/kybU0j […]
1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3:00 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11:00 a.m., a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. TiE Chennai […]