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Riskmaster Timothy C Draper revisits India in October 10-12 and will make pit-stops in Mumbai and Bangalore. The last time the maverick venture capitalist was here in late 2005 he set the ball rolling on Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s (DFJ) formal entry into India with the TiE Draper India Venture Challenge that gave away $150,000 as [...]

Last Saturday, Mint put out a half page interview with Laura A Parkin, executive director, National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) and Wadhwani Foundation, clarifying some of the issues/controversies around the Tata NEN Hottest Startups 2008 nominations — read Tata NEN Campaign Addresses Early Hiccups. Mint is a media partner for the startup ranking contest. As on [...]

Markets change. Competitors change. Customers change. Regulations change. Suppliers change. But people rarely change. What differentiates a great venture capitalist from a good one is the ability to identify and invest in the right people or ‘Six Sigma’ entrepreneurs, as we like to call them at Nexus India Capital. Smart: High on common sense Passionate: [...]

Venture capitalists invested over $30 million in August across seven reported deals. Investments

The Tata NEN Hottest Startups 2008 contest has whipped up a minor storm because it is allegedly “forcibly nominating startups”. Yusuf Motiwala, founder and CEO of Bangalore-based VoIP startup TringME, blogs that the company has turned up on the list of nominees despite emailing in a specific request to “withdraw” its nomination. Here’s an excerpt [...]