TheFind: LifeStyle Shopping (Part 4)

[Part 3] One of the questions I often explore with serial entrepreneurs, is how do they identify the next open problem to work on. In this segment, Siva explains his thought process on how he Found the Find. SM: Under what circumstances did the company get started? SK: The company was started in 2004 while

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TheFind: LifeStyle Shopping (Part 3)

[Part 2] TheFind obviously has identified an exciting opportunity, but is it big enough? The answer to this question determines whether the venture will scale or not. It’s interesting how Siva derives the TAM. SM: How big is the market for what you have to offer? TAM analysis is essentially what I am looking for

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It’s a Marathon, not a Sprint

By Dharma Kuthanur, Guest Author Starting this column on a personal note, it so happens that both my former company (a VoIP infrastructure provider) and my wife’s former company (an optical networking company) are planning to do their IPOs this year. In the tech IPO-starved times in which we live, this probably counts as both

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Saints Capital: Offering Secondary Market Liquidity

I recently had a very interesting conversation with Ken Sawyer, founder of Saints Capital, a new fund that offers secondary market liquidity to small companies and their shareholders. Let’s look at a few examples.

Israel Internet Bubble?

By Daniel Cohen, Guest Author Last week was the Marker‘s Internet event, and although I wasn’t there (Guy wrote about it in my blog), I did hear a lot about it from my partners and from other friends. The feedback was strong and clear – we are in a bubble. There are too many entrepreneurs,

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Raising Money in India

By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting from Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. The third panel featured an interactive discussion on “Raising & Leveraging Venture Capital” and was moderated by Manik Arora, Managing Director of IDG Ventures India. The entrepreneurs on the panel – Nitish Mittersain, Founder & CEO of Nazara Technologies

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Platform-Oriented Mobile VAS

By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting from Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. Alok Mittal, Executive Director of Canaan Partners, emphasized the need for Mobile VAS companies to “own the customer” as well as directly create demand for their applications. This would be the best way for them to get a larger

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Bite-Size Entertainment

By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting on the Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. The second panel on “Mobile VAS: Time to look beyond Ring Tones and Wallpapers?” was moderated by Sandeep Singhal, Managing Director of Nexus India Capital. Rajesh Sawhney, President of Reliance Entertainment, emphasized how entertainment outshone all other applications

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