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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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First-time Entrepreneurs in India
Aparna Chennapragada is a graduate student at MIT’s Sloan School of Business, who is doing a research project on the challenges in building technology startups in India. As part of her research, she is looking to interview Indian entrepreneurs, particularly first-time entrepreneurs, for their perspectives. From an entrepreneur’s view, some of the issues she is
Concept Arbitrage: Pottery Barn
While we’re on the topic of Concept Arbitrage and retail stores, one that I would like to see scaled in India is the Pottery Barn concept of Home Furnishings. The two brands that I have seen as possible players are Anokhi and FabIndia. Fabindia’s first retail store opened in New Delhi in 1976. Today, Fabindia
Concept Arbitrage: Fedex Kinko’s
Sahad reports that Sequoia has invested in a company called Printo that is building a chain of Kinko’s like stores for printing and copying services. “It currently has a chain of six stores across Bangalore, and plans to open 250 retail outlets over the next three years across the country.” This is an interesting concept
Concept Arbitrage: Lonely Planet & TripAdvisor
The Indian Internet Travel segment is booming. Cleartrip, Yatra, Travelguru, Makemytrip – all have received substantial funding from serious names in the VC world. Their focus is primarily on looking for flights and hotels and making reservations. That means, they are focused on Search and Commerce. The Content & Community pieces of my Web 3.0
Concept Arbitrage: Hoovers, D&B, InfoUSA
Okay, so while we’re on the Concept Arbitrage topic, I would also like to suggest that entrepreneurs in India start thinking about the business of “Information”. Imagine. You have a product that needs to be sold to hundreds and thousands of businesses all over India, across various industries. It could be anything from computers, to
Concept Arbitrage: PayCycle & Intuit
I wrote a widely read Concept Arbitrage series sometime back. Here are some additional thoughts on that topic. The focus of the series is on various venture ideas that have been successful in the US, and can be replicated in India. Well, Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), applied to financial management disciplines like Payroll, Financial Accounting, Tax Preparation
Satyam’s Growth Prospects Look Solid
Among the outsourcers, Satyam (Nasdaq: SAY) today stands out as a safe global bet because it continues to consistently perform on its goals. Satyam provides information technology services and business process outsourcing (BPO) services in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. The company’s approach and “Satyam Way” is in 4 key points of
Infosys Needs to Diversify Out of Body-Shopping
The rupee value may rise making Indian services more expensive, but companies like Infosys adapt. In this piece, we look at what is going on inside the outsourcing giant, and whether their strategy is enough to sustain continued growth. Infosys (INFY) delivers information technology (IT) enabled outsourced business solutions and provides business process outsourcing (BPO)
