Vinod Dham has lived the quintessential Silicon Valley rags to riches immigrant story. Born in Pune, India, he came to the U.S. in 1975 as an engineering student with just $8 in his pocket. He became a chip engineer and helped invent Intels first flash memory chip. He went on [...]
An interesting story by Robert MacMillan on the slow death of, well, newspaper industry stock analysts, amidst the doom and gloom scenario of the industry they are covering. And why is this important? As the story says, the void in smart thinking on the publishing sector could exacerbate an already [...]
Having said a few unhappy things about Predictably Irrational earlier this week, here are notes on a few books, new and old, I've liked recently: Profit from the Peak: The End of Oil and the Greatest Investment Event of the Century. Despite a bad and breathless title, it's worth a [...]
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July 3rd, 2008 |
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Mumbai-based Ideacts Innovations, a cyber cafe based advertising platform has recieved $5 million funding from Sequoia Capital India. R. Ramaraj, Senior Advisor, Sequoia Capital India, and Mohit Bhatnagar, Operating Partner, Sequoia Capital India, have joined the board of the company. Ideacts has developed a desktop application called CLINCK which is [...]
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TVS Capital has announced a freshly minted Rs 500 crore growth capital fund targeted at mid cap businesses. Named TVS Shriram Growth Fund, the initiative is a partnership between the TVS family and the Shrirams of the Shriram Transport Finance group. The funds have been completely raised from domestic investors [...]
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(Editor's note: Shantanu Surpure, Managing Attorney at Sand Hill Counsel, a Mumbai and Silicon Valley-based law firm, writes on the RCOM-RIL-MTN right of first refusal (ROFR) dispute and its legal implications. Since the 45-day exclusive talks betwen RCOM and MTNL are scheduled to end on July 9, the question is [...]
German skill-games site GameDuell has raised $17 million in a second round of funding from Wellington Partners. The Berlin-based company has more than 10 million registered members and claims to be the No. 1 game community in Germany. It plans to use the money for an international expansion, including a [...]
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Just as The Governator tries to pursue green policies, like keeping Tesla's electric production car local, you'll now also be able to hand out full-sized "green" business cards with Flickr images, courtesy of the same guys who brought us those cool little mini-cards, Moo.com. They are launching full-sized business cards [...]
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Europe is a hotbed of mobile startups right now, so appropriately enough the Mobile 2.0 event which started in San Francisco is putting on a one-day international event tomorrow in Barcelona which focuses on mobile startups, dubbed Mobile 2.0 Europe. I'll be moderating a panel there, hosting a TechCrunch networking [...]
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What you see above is not a video or a slide show, it is a Flowgram. If you click on it, you will be taken to a full-screen player with what appears to be a screencast with a voiceover. Except that you can control the pages by scrolling up and [...]
Miasole, the thin-film solar cell maker that is the third member of a triumvirate of heavily-funded CIGS startups including Heliovolt and Nanosolar, has been pretty quiet since losing its CEO and laying off 40 workers late last year. In the interim, there has been plenty of speculation that it was [...]
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Drama is the predominant theme in this young entrepreneur's world: From building a global brand based on $500-plus stilettos, to closing her third round of private equity financing to the tune of $360 million last year, Mellon doesn't do anything halfway - including the recent renovation of her London office.[...]
Eric Ly, a co-founder of professional networking site LinkedIn, has signed on to be a venture partner at Wellington Partners. Ly says he'll be helping the London- and Munich-based firm with its plans to expand into the United States. This sounds like a surprising move for him - after all, [...]
ForeScout Technologies has raised $8 million from previous investors, Venture Beat reported. The firm makes a security platform combining clientless network access control and intrusion prevention, and saw 80 percent growth last year. The funding was provided by Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pitango Ventures. Go [...]
If you asked me who my inspirations were when I started to blog, they would have been: Seth Godin - because his blog was my favorite read at the time (and still is in my top 10)Dave Winer - because Scripting News was the first blog I ever read (when [...]
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