Indian startups making a mark
Last week’s post on IndiaPost raised quite a storm of comments. Some of them were supportive of my central thesis that for Indian citizens to get better public services the issue of labour flexibility...
View ArticleNotes from TiEcon Delhi
I attended TiEcon Delhi for a day in October. The energy in the main hall and the deal-making in the lobby outside, spoke volumes about how hot the Indian venture scene is. I met old friends as well as...
View ArticleWanted: VCs for a Flat World
India is a hot venture destination. My earlier post about TiEcon Delhi talks about the excitement I could sense amongst both the entrepreneurs and the VCs at the conference. In the same post, I also...
View ArticleHiring in India
Our startup Gridstone Research is now about 140 strong in Mumbai. So far hiring in India has been a mixed bag. Some hard work that has paid off. And some frustration. We have broadly two streams in...
View ArticleMore IT Services Bashing
Sujai Karampuri in Need Product Companies for India’s Growth makes an unconvincing case for encouraging the high tech industry in India. On the way he quotes data on the IT Services industry to prove...
View ArticleNotes from the CRV conference
Spent a couple of days last week at the Charles River Ventures conference. (CRV is the lead investor in Gridstone). The attraction of the conference to me was to meet other entrepreneurs and to meet a...
View ArticleCompany of One
The English word company means “A group of persons”. I would surmise then that the business entity “company” got its name because it comprised of a group of persons engaged in a common business...
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Gridstone Excel Add-in
We just released a very important product – an Excel Add-in that allows Analysts to pull in our rich data directly into their spreadsheets. Excel is very central to the work flow of our users. We think...
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Gridstone and the Top-Down Approach to the Semantic Web
What does Gridstone Research do? If an Equity Analyst asks this question, the answer we give is what our home page says, Using cutting-edge technology, Gridstone assembles, analyzes and structures...
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Zoho and the Bottom of the Software Pyramid
Last week Sridhar Vembu the CEO of Adventnet, makers of the Zoho suite of software, was featured on the Economist’s Face Value. This may seem like a big deal for the CEO of $60 M company (The Indian...
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