Meena and Krishnan Ganesh want to fund 100 startups. Will one of them be yours?

Every alternate weekend, Meena Ganesh spends a couple of hours with newbie entrepreneurs who need help turning ideas into executable business plans. Ganesh, who sold TutorVista, her second company, last January, often plays the devil’s advocate at these sessions. Sometimes she works entrepreneurs through the challenges their ideas may face in a real-time market scenario. At others, it may come…

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Pearson buys TutorVista for $127 million

Pearson Plc, publisher of the Financial Times, has acquired a controlling stake in TutorVista, an online education startup founded by serial entrepreneur Krishnan Ganesh. The British company has paid $127 million (Rs 577 crore) to increase its stake in TutorVista to 76 per cent. It already owned about 17 per cent in the Bangalore-based startup, which it had acquired at…

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