In the second part of the Startupcentral Beer Fridays: Bootstrapping Stories session held in July, Vishal Agarwal, founder of Spatial Ideas, and Neha Juneja, co-founder of Greenway Grameen Infra, share their experiences in taking their idea to prototype. Guiding the discussion was our guest moderator Aditya Mishra, who well known in Mumbai’s startup circles for [...]
The July edition of Startupcentral Beer Fridays returned to Bootstrapping Stories as its theme. Founders of four startup companies, each at different stages in their journey, came together to share their experiences and lessons. The session was moderated by Aditya Mishra, co-founder and director of Headstart Network Foundation. The Bootstrappers Neha Juneja, co-founder, Greenway Grameen [...]
Photos from the July edition of Startupcentral Beer Fridays. Our panelists – Anand Anupam, founder of Healthizen; Vishal Agarwal, founder of Spatial Ideas; Neha Juneja, co-founder of Greenway Grameen Infra; Abhishek Rai, founder of Vikreyta — shared their experiences in bootstrapping their startup businesses. The session was moderated by Aditya Mishra, co-founder and director of [...]
Last Friday, Startupcentral put together a group of entrepreneurs from the ecommerce sector to talk about the opportunities and challenges in their respective businesses. The event was part of the Startupcentral Beer Fridays series of round tables that brings together entrepreneurs once a month to share their ideas and experiences through their startup journey. Sequoia [...]
Startupcentral Beer Fridays: The Rise of eCommerce – Opportunities and Challnges concluded last Friday. Our panelists were Rahul Yadav, Scopial Fashions; Vikhyat Srivastava, Groffr; Sailesh Lakhani, Sequoia Capital; Samuel Ziza, Witty Gift; and Jiby Thomas, Quikr. Thanks to all the panelists for making time for the round table. Videos coming up soon. Here are the [...]
eCommerce is in the middle of a surge in India. IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India) estimates that the ecommerce industry in India will grow 47 per cent to $10.3 billion by the end of 2011. The primary segments of growth will be travel, retail, financial services and classifieds. Not surprisingly, venture capital investors [...]
Medianama’s Nikhil Pahwa is in town and suggested an Entrepreneur Roundtable. Theme/Topic: Before & After (Starting Up) – How different has the experience of entrepreneurship been in practice compared to what you imagined in theory before starting up? Date & Time: Friday, November 14th, 3.00-5.00 pm Participants: Hrush Bhatt, Cleartrip; Saurabh Gupta, Phonethics Mobile Media; [...]
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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