Financing & Exit

If you are a very early stage entrepreneur looking for financing, chances are you need a lot more than help with financing. Most likely, you need help with Positioning, as well as overall strategy. For the moment, I do not have the bandwidth to take these projects on on a pure equity basis. I do

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India’s Development – Not the Tata Nano

Many of you have been ranting on my previous Tata Nano post about equal opportunity. I will go on record and synthesize my point of view here: I have no problem if people own cars and don’t drive them. Rich or poor. If the car is a status symbol that they need to show off

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Today’s Two Big Acquisitions

Sun is buying open source database maker MySQL for $1 Billion. More than 100 million copies of MySQL’s database software have been downloaded and 50,000 copies are downloaded daily. MySQL had raised $39 million from Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP, and was in IPO discussions. It’s good to see that MySQL has found a

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Infosys In Light of Recession Fears

The general feeling of the West has been that the rise of the rupee would slow down the immense growth of business being funneled into India. The reality is that growth continues to boom in India, barely slowed by currency exchange rates. The short term looks alright for Infosys (Nasdaq: INFY). Infosys’ Q3 revenues posted

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Good SaaS Blogs

We’ve been discussing SaaS at length, and will continue to do so. Here are some other blogs that also offer good perspectives on the topic. Rough Type: Nicholas Carr writes on technology, business, and culture. He writes about the future of computing, especially “utility-computing”, his nomenclature of the SaaS trend. Software As Services: At ZDNet,

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Trend Radar 2008: SaaS Impact on IT Infrastructure

As we go into the era of broader SaaS adoption inside the Enterprise, the CIO’s office has some new headaches coming, although overall, a simplification of the IT infrastructure is on course. Imagine. You are the CIO of a Fortune 500 company. Your organization has deployed Salesforce.com for CRM, Concur for Travel, Webex for Collaboration,

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Trend Radar 2008: SaaS in SME

We discussed the rise of On-Demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in the enterprise as a 2008 trend. However, SaaS will rise in the Small-Medium Enterprise (SME) markets as well.

Trend Radar 2008: SaaS in the Enterprise

A Gartner report from August 2007 predicted that SaaS adoption in the Enterprise will be rising at a 22% CAGR through 2011. Worldwide total software revenue for software as a service (SaaS) within the enterprise software markets is projected to surpass $5.1 billion in 2007, a 21 percent increase from 2006 revenue ($4.2 billion), according

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