Venture Capital in India: Ashish Gupta (Part 7)

SM: I think the individual-led incubator model is the best one for India. AG: A lot of these education institutions are hampered by the fact that the quality of mentors to the entrepreneurs is not high. They continue to labor under serious delusions as to what constitutes a business.

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Venture Capital in India: Ashish Gupta (Part 6)

SM: What are you seeing in the Indian ecosystem in terms of deal size? What is the smallest size investment you would make? AG: We would be willing to write a $500,000 check.

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Venture Capital in India: Ashish Gupta (Part 5)

SM: What is happening on the retail side? AG: Lots of interesting stuff is happening in retail, financial services, and education. One way to look at India is as a readjustment of a standard of living. Everything that goes into standard of living is in a boom phase.

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Venture Capital in India: Ashish Gupta (Part 4)

SM: There was a wave in the category of mobile value-added services. What is your synthesis of that at this point? AG: The biggest challenge for most of the companies at this point is that the carriers choose to keep 85% of the revenue. They expect the startup to put in the capex to get

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