It might be fun to go Barcamping around Asia. It would not be too expensive and probably quite an eye-opener. I’m seriously planning an itinerary and decided to start with the BarCamp wiki to get a fix on the activity across the region. Some of things I learned amused and surprised me: You cannot access [...]
Startup Saturday comes up tomorrow. Two entrepreneurs are supposed to speak there. Mohit Dubey from Carwale and Girish Saraph from Vegayan Systems. The BarCamp circuit seems to be on a monsoon holiday. But there’s something called WiCamps on the agenda in Chennai, Kolkata and Gurgaon. WiCamp is short for Wipro Innovation Camp and is the [...]
BarCamp Mumbai 3 is getting cooler by the minute — and I don’t mean just the new logo. They’ve added a parallel event — BlogCamp Mumbai Style. This will also run from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm and is at the same venue, School of Management at IIT Bombay. The camp is actually a continuation [...]
After a over a year of expounding on BarCamps and unconferences I finally attended one — BarCamp MU3 at the KJ Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology at Sion. So what does a BarCamp at the university level look like? A bunch of maybe forty guys and girls, not all of them students, sitting [...]
December is my favourite month of the year, and not just in venture capital terms. And, there’s a load of networking taking place this month. First week, on the 5th, I attend a private, private equity party hosted by well, a private equity firm who I cannot name here. It’s actually being held at the [...]
I’m keeping my fingers crossed but, it looks like BarCamp Mumbai2 is…on track. Arpi Agarwal, one of the organizers, wrote in this morning with an update on how things are progressing. SUN Startup Essentials has signed up as a title sponsor and Brainwave is co-sponsor. Registrations for attendance are at 60 and growing and oh! [...]
Mumbai’s startup unconferencing circuit is the most inconsistent in the country. BarCamps remain pretty much at the experimental stage, except for the OSSCamps, which have been quite regular. MoMo meets are around but the last one had more public relations people than start-ups. The city’s held its first and last BarCamp on May 13 last [...]
Accelerator to angel to VC flow still struggling to find equilibrium in India
I had fun moderating the panel on early stage financing at India Internet Day. VCCircle has an interesting article. The key issues are as under: 1. Too few deals are progressing from accelerators to angel, and from angel to Series A. Only five per cent of deals going from accelerators to Series A might not [...]
The early ecommerce marketplace pioneers: eBay class of 2000-2005
TechCrunch recently published an article I wrote about how the eBay class of 2000-2005 helped shape ecommerce in Silicon Valley and continues to innovate and move the sector forward. By understanding what shaped this class’ experience and examining where these alums are today, we identified the most important industry trends and start to see a [...]
The founder’s guide to surviving the Series A crunch
The Indian entrepreneurship and venture capital ecosystem is fast maturing. Today we have more early stage funds than ever. This fund availability will only improve, aside from the temporary blips caused due to macroeconomic ups and downs. We are in one such ‘crunch’ today, where even though seed and angel funds are writing cheques with [...]
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