Incubator Funds in India: Adult Supervision?

Okay, so we are talking about designing an incubator that will give entrepreneurs access to concept engineering, engineering management, product marketing, sales, biz dev, legal and financial talent and resources that is well beyond what a small startup could ever dream of attracting. This definitely is starting to sound too good to be true! Wait,

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Incubator Funds in India: Real Estate & Infrastructure

Pretty much wherever you look to set up your entrepreneurial venture in, at this point, in India, you are looking at expensive real estate. I have heard from entrepreneurs who are struggling to rent 1,500 sq. ft of space to start their ventures up. Therefore, imagine how valuable it would be if you could sublet

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Amidst Volatility, Be Opportunistic with EMC & VMWare

When I last looked at VMWare’s (VMW) IPO performance in August 2007 (first IPO’d at $26 and closed at $58/share), I noted there was no disappointment. Well, until recently, that was a subtle understatement. EMC’s spinoff hit a high of $125/share in October, only to be let down due to the general tech selloff last

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Serial Entrepreneur Zack Rinat on Model N (Part 6)

SM: Please explain the vision and value proposition at Model N in some more depth. ZR: If you think about an income statement, you can relate to what we are doing. With Technology, our industry automates the GNA via the general ledger and finance. We automate marketing. We integrate with CRM. We automate cost of

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Incubator Funds in India: Legal & Financial Structuring?

Judging by the kinds of questions that show up in various entrepreneurship related blogs and forums, financial structuring, otherwise known as the Cap Table, is something entrepreneurs often need help with. Here’s a quote from Alex Osadzinski on the overall philosophy of a good term sheet: “And, I can’t stress enough that a fair deal

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Incubator Funds in India: Distribution?

Distribution Logistics can be avoided altogether if you are dealing with Internet plays, but presumably, not every entrepreneur would be working with Internet businesses, so we need to be quite creative. India’s heartland, for example, is still not easy to penetrate. Nonetheless, it can be penetrated. One of my personal interest areas is Education. All

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Apollo Needs Succession Planning

The Apollo Group, Inc. (APOL), provides educational programs through its subsidiaries the University of Phoenix, Institute for Professional Development, the College for Financial Planning Institutes, Western International University, and Insight Schools. I previously discussed Apollo under potential LBOs, and later on in the context of Educate’s buyout. Apollo, however, is still public. Apollo announced Q4

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Serial Entrepreneur Zack Rinat on Model N (Part 5)

SM: A lot of people from Harvard Business School came to Silicon Valley and created a lot of problems during the gold rush years. ZR: There was a program we started in 2001 called WestTrack, where we are bringing in students to look at companies. The first year we did it was in 2001, and

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