No Profits from a profitable idea? Rethink on team building

Bangalore: A great idea with a well set ROI proposition, still the business hasn't turned around profitable? It has to be the team. "All start-up...

Wednesday, 29 December 2010, 12:25 Hrs

U.S. VCs not bullish on investing in India

Bangalore: VCs in U.S., seem to be quite optimistic about the investment trends in 2011. However, most of their investments would be confined to U....

Tuesday, 28 December 2010, 11:47 Hrs

2010 mantra for global firms: Catch the Indian-founded startups

Bangalore:"Indians tends to think of the workability of the idea and not basically on the idea. Once there is a cash flow, it naturally turns on an...

Monday, 27 December 2010, 11:19 Hrs

Buyer centric BuyThePrice raises angel funding

Bangalore: Angel funding has seen a sudden surge in 2010, and right after the recent funding of authorSTREAM, Rajan Anandan, the Managing Director ...

Friday, 24 December 2010, 10:35 Hrs

Towing the new VC Norm Merus to raise $100 Million

Bangalore: Merus Capital invested $1 million in Chailabs, a venture of a former Google executive who was the key body behind AdSense and within a year the firm got acquired by Facebook for $10 million. It was a good start for the venture firm launched in 2008, which is again an ex-Googlers Salman Ullah and Sean Dempsey's attempt. As as Alexei O...

FlipKart turns more social, with weRead acquisition

Indian startup founders: Are they serious on sales?

Indian startup founders: Are they serious on sales?

Bangalore: "If a product can't be sold by the makers themselves, no sales team can make the sale," says Bharat Goenka, the Tally Chief. Goenka jumpstarted the accounting software firm by selling the first 700 products on his own, before passing on the league to a set of sales managers. But how far are the today's startup founders and CEOs in Ind...

Intrapreneurship - Time to nurture in-house talent

Intrapreneurship - Time to nurture in-house talent

Anandan invests in authorStream: Are they really geared?

Mohali: The web 2.0 is ringing big in tweaking the way software solutions are provided and it's the corporate bodies who seem to have a deeper inte...

Twitter investment: KPCB's tactical move towards Social Media

Bangalore: Two months back when Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers initiated 'sFund', the social media fund, there were clear sparks of this venture ...