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Archive for February, 2007

Does Indian Govt hate VCs and Entrepreneurs?

February 28, 2007 | In: Uncategorized

Does the present Congress led govt has something against entrepreneurs ?? If one goes by the series of events has they have unfolded in past 2 years then it does look like that Govt is not very fond of venture funds and entrepreneurs. Earlier the...

GVFL ( formerly known as Gujarat Venture Finance Ltd) has gone into early stage investment and has invested INR 80 million 8 million in RapidRadio solutions a company incubated by Nirma Labs. RapidRadio marks GVFL’s first investment in a start-up...

Business Plan Essentials part II: Writing Mission, Vision

February 20, 2007 | In: Uncategorized

During my MBA days, mission vision statement was considered to be the biggest crap you can dish out in Strategy class and on the very mention of the word “Vision statement”, the mind used to go for a toss and eyelids used to feel heavy and we used to...

Google acts as LP and invest in venture funds in India

February 19, 2007 | In: Uncategorized

In a surprise move and first of its kind in the word, Google inc has invested in two early stage venture funds namely Seed Fund and Erasmic Venture Fund. In a news published in ET, Samir Sood, head (corporate development - South Asia), Google. India...

Google has moved into “in-game ad market, with the acquisition of Adscape for USD 23 million as per the report in E-Consultancy. Adscape Media, based in San Francisco, Calif., was funded by H.I.G. Ventures. Adscape Media is an in-game advertising...

Business Plan Essentials: Writing Business Plan

February 15, 2007 | In: Uncategorized

Meet any entrepreneurs or would be entrepreneurs and business plan is going to be the biggest sore point. You mention the term and geek god will go purple! And probably writing business plan seems more complicated than generating the million dollar...

Making of Largest Retail chain in India : Subhiksha

February 8, 2007 | In: Uncategorized

Recently Rediff.com carried a very interesting interview with first generation entrepreneur R Subramanian, who started Subhiksha around 10 years ago, with its first store opened in Chennai in 1997. Subramanian who did his B.Tech from IIT and PGDBM (...

IIT Delhi as part of its annual festival is organising a business plan competition in Technopreneurship named as "Tryst 2007. The details of business plan as given on IITD website are as follows : BUSINESS FOCUS The business/venture should focus on...