Indian Venture Capital: Age of Reckoning

Ashish Gupta left Silicon Valley to partake in the bonanza that venture capital in India was supposed to create. He founded Helion Capital, a $605 million fund that has been in business for a while. The style of venture capital that Ashish and his compatriots at Sequoia, Accel, and others wanted to practice was the

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Building a VC-Funded Tech Company from Upstate New York: Sinclair Schuller, CEO of Apprenda (Part 3)

Sramana: You established your company and got it funded in upstate New York. That is not one of the entrepreneurial hubs in the country. Can you describe the environment and what it was like to get a company off the ground in that area? Sinclair Schuller: It was less challenging than we thought it would

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192nd Roundtable Recording On October 17, 2013

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Seed Investors In India: Why So Few?

As I have written in previous columns, the seed capital ecosystem in India is a real bottleneck right now. There are no more than a couple of hundred seed investments that are happening a year. Even if the number doubles this year, it is still a terribly inadequate number to build a real pipeline of

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Building a VC-Funded Tech Company from Upstate New York: Sinclair Schuller, CEO of Apprenda (Part 2)

Sramana: What did you do after you left Morgan Stanley? Sinclair Schuller: I went to work for a startup in upstate New York that focused on help desk software. I worked as a Java developer inside of a really small company. At Morgan Stanley I experienced software development in large enterprises, so it was a

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2013: Invention Labs, Chennai, India

Invention Labs develops augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) solutions like Avaz that help children with speech disabilities develop communication and language skills. Avaz represents ideas visually, as picture symbols that can then be sequenced together to create sentences that are spoken out. Unlike its competitors, Avaz is not English-specific and not only helps in communication

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Thursday, October 24 – 193rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 193rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 24, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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How To Navigate the Seed Capital Gap in India

Even though interest in entrepreneurship is at its highest in India, the country has a nominal seed capital infrastructure. As you know, I concern myself with issues of scalability and pipeline building. The question that I have been pondering for the last ten years is: how do you develop a sustainable pipeline of entrepreneurs? Of

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