The world exploded in media-fuelled hyperbole on November 4, when senator Barack Obama became the 44th president-elect of the US.…
The company was a little less than two years old, had raised about Rs 2 crore about 18 months ago,…
It is fashionably said that we now live in a knowledge economy, where value is created not by gaining access…
In the late 1990s, a large number of Internet entrepreneurs emerged in India, spurred on, no doubt, by the successful…
While VC funds have played a critical role in the creation and sustenance of companies in the US, it would…
Over the weekend, I was immersed in reading Madcap Crazy Inventions by Gyles Brandreth, a slim volume published in 1997,…
Many years ago when I was young, not-yet-senior-enough-to-attend meetings and gainfully employed, meetings were, in my then innocent mind, attended…
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games would have just begun by the time this article appears in public. Athletes numbering 10,500…
The CEO of a leading online bus reservations company arrived late for our early morning meeting. I was upset for…
I?m catching an overnight train to Hubli. My regional manager has set up a meeting with retail and corporate investors…
This is about two companies. Or rather, about the cultures of two very successful and well-known companies. As invariably happens,…
Each of the above describes an internationally leading company on the Internet. I?ve picked these as examples to illustrate a…
In the last two columns, I wrote about the need for a business plan and what a typical plan should…
I?m writing this piece from Singapore where I?m on a teaching assignment of a course called Business Plan Workshop at…
Often I meet entrepreneurs who submit a great-looking business plan with all kinds of fancy colours, pie-charts and trend lines.…
It?s natural because VCs don?t have the time to look at all the plans that they get to pick out…
India is an attractive venture capital destination today and the future will only get better. Many more VC funds will…
Over the weekend I was a panel member at a mentorship event. One of the presenters was the founder of…
