Internet in India
A very interesting short conversation with Bijan Sabet (@bijan), General Partner, Sparkcapital about the changing workings of VCs with startups (for the better) in the US. He led investments in Twitter, Tumblr. VCs need to improve their image with entrepreneurs SparkCapital was the first in the industry to waive the requirement that startups … [Read more] about Should the VC pick the Legal fee tab of the startup? Yes, it happens in the Valley
This is election season in Bangalore clubs. Usually the AGMs and elections are held during this time of the year. I received the agenda for the meeting from one of the clubs I am member in here. Usually I don't read it as I am not interested in the politics (surprised?). One of the items in the agenda was not just shocking but insulting to any … [Read more] about Club in Bangalore discriminating daughters?
I was too lazy to come up with a headline, so decided to reuse the heading of the article I wrote in 2012 "Will India see an Internet inflection point by 2014?". Reliance Industries is going to be investing in a big way at home, in India - $30 billion over the next 3 years! In yesterday's Reliance AGM few announcements made that would interest the … [Read more] about Will India see an Internet inflection point by 2015?
Facebook and Twitter are seeing very healthy & promising growth in the mobile ad revenues. To strengthen its mobile advertising revenue Twitter announced today that it is acquiring mobile native ad specialist Namo Media (no relation with India's PM NaMo). Needless to say the combination of native advertising and mobile is a killer one and … [Read more] about Twitter Acquires Namo Media!
Delhi clearly hogs all the attention when it comes to admissions to undergraduate courses every year. All over India it is safe to assume admission time is very stressful in families. Every aspect of the admission process is torturous - getting application form, buying bank demand draft to pay the application fee, then submitting the form with a … [Read more] about Was Delhi University using the wrong webserver?