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1.Indian Version of Hacker News (www.paraschopra.com)
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3.BarCampDelhi on 11-12 October (wiki.barcampdelhi.com)
Guys living in Delhi don't miss it. Aza Raskin (Lead UI, Firefox) will be there too!
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4.Facebook Announces Developer Contest for India (www.venturewoods.org)
New Delhi, India, July 3, 2009: The day for which the Indian developer community had been waiting has finally arrived. Facebook, whose mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected, announced today the launch o...
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5.Support for Green Businesses (www.venturewoods.org)
New Ventures India inviting business plans from green entrepreneurs for its 2009 cycle
Eco-entrepreneurs should hurry and submit their business plan to the following email addresses: hemant.nitturkar@cii.in or vamshi. krishna@cii.in
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6.LUCK? RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME? DIVINE INTERVENTION? (www.venturewoods.org)
LUCK? RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME? DIVINE INTERVENTION?….
Sanjay Anandaram
We hear all the time about the amount of money that’s available to fund startups. For example, that private equity funds invested over $ 3.3 billion in just the first 3 calen... -
7.Governance (www.venturewoods.org)
GOVERNANCE
Sanjay AnandaramThe young founders of the young company looked happy. They had just finished a long meeting with a top class candidate for CEO of one of their soon-to-be-launched businesses. They had decided to bring on board seasoned profes... -
8.BUZZ WORD COMPLIANCE (www.venturewoods.org)
BUZZWORD COMPLIANCE
Sanjay Anandaram A friend narrated this to me this morning. He was on a business trip to Taiwan and bumped into a colleague from a much larger division of the same company at Taipei airport. After exchanging some chit-chat, the col... -
9.CONFLICTS OF INTEREST (www.venturewoods.org)
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Sanjay Anandaram
Julius Caesar the great Roman emperor divorced his wife Pompeia as heconsidered his honour and position compromised because Pompeia was indirectly associated with a trial for sacrilege. He explained that his wife... -
10.INDIAN CRICKET NEEDS A KERRY PACKER (www.venturewoods.org)
INDIAN CRICKET NEEDS A KERRY PACKER!
Sanjay Anandaram
That cricket is a religion in India is a cliché. That cricket exists as an “international” sport largely because of India is a fact. More people, perhaps, play cricket in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park than... -
11.ENTREPRENEURIAL MBA? (www.venturewoods.org)
ENTREPRENEURIAL MBA?
Sanjay Anandaram
An increasing number of universities and colleges are offering courses in “Entrepreneurship” as part of their business education. Around the world, business plan competitions are held by academic institutions at... -
12.DIVERSITY IN HIRING (www.venturewoods.org)
DIVERSITY IN HIRING
Sanjay Anandaram
One of the things that intrigued me when I visited a startup recently was the amazing conformity and homogeneity on display. Most of the team members were from a particular community, from a particular part of the... -
13.Marc Andreessen raises $300MM for early stage investments (www.venturewoods.org)
Very interesting news. In this climate of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, noted entrepreneur Marc Andreessen (who led the development of the first web browser and co-founded Netscape, among other things) and Ben Horowitz have raised 300 million dollars f...
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14.Entrepreneur-Board Dynamics (www.venturewoods.org)
ENTREPRENEUR-BOARD DYNAMICS
Sanjay Anandaram
You’re delighted to have successfully raised capital. You can now execute the plan and grow the business. One of the first things you do is hire senior sales and marketing people. You negotiate their compe... -
15.Right CEO? (www.venturewoods.org)
The Right CEO?
By Sanjay Anandaram
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Most entrepreneurs (especially wannabees) believe that they should naturally be the CEO of their venture because “hey, its my idea and my co... -
16.Am I Good Enough? (www.venturewoods.org)
Am I Good Enough?
by Sanjay Anandaram
Over the weekend I was a panel member at a mentorship event. One of the presenters was the founder of a company whose business card simply read “Chief Architect”. On being asked who the CEO of this company was, he ... -
17.Who Owns The Company? (www.venturewoods.org)
Once in a blue moon, this situation repeats itself. The board of a company along with the stake holders and investors are pushing the entrepreneur towards a direction and he/she is really not liking it, and tries the ownership card. “This is my c...
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18.Consumerization of Enterprise (www.venturewoods.org)
The notion of enterprise customers as large monolithic technology purchasing entities is on a decline. This perhaps was first visible in sales people popping out their credit cards to buy subscription to salesforce.com. However, the trend is expanding ...
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19.VC & Startup Founders saga continues (www.webyantra.net)
You might have already caught these on TechCrunch (in separate back to back articles). I just thought of sharing both the decks together for those who missed it.
The first of these decks is titled VC Non Admissions. The deck was adapted from a thread ... -
20.Thinking outside the (cellphone) box (www.venturewoods.org)
Gigaom has a thought-provoking article on non-cellphone devices which use the cellular networks. The ones that Stacey mentions are:
* Smart Insoles
* The BI HomeGuard Anklet
* Zoombak
* The Cameo Picture Frame
* Ford Work Solutions
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21.NASSCOM EMERGEOUT 50 is all about honouring the true spirit of SMEs (www.venturewoods.org)
The contribution of the SME community to the Indian IT BPO industry can never be overemphasized but most Emerging companies face a major challenge in getting their due recognition and at times even loose out to the larger players. Size definitely does ...
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22.Sharad Sharma joins Canaan as EIR (www.venturewoods.org)
We are very pleased to bring Sharad Sharma as EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence) at Canaan. We have had a long standing relationship with Sharad, and share common interest in cloud computing as a disruptive area of growth. Over the next few months, Sharad...
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23.Alternative Startup Financing Schemes (www.venturewoods.org)
I’ve seen a number of posts lately discussing the ‘changing face of venture capital’. Paul Graham talks about the change in dynamics caused by the low capital requirements of technology startups. Fred Wilson discusses the need for a m...
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24.MS Office Labs - Vision 2019 (www.venturewoods.org)
Interesting vision of ten years ahead from Microsoft Office Labs.
Video: Future Vision Montage
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25.MoneyVidya… wisdom of crowd approach to stock recommendations (www.webyantra.net)
MoneyVidya is a stock research site with a twist in the tale. Instead of financial experts making the stock recommendations, it employs a wisdom of crowd approach to financial advisory and stock tips. The company has developed a proprietary algorithm t...