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We expect to do more deals this year': ePlanet Ventures - Outlook for 09 Part V

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Namitha Jagadeesh, Mint ePlanet Ventures began as an affiliate fund with venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and earned a name for itself with big-ticket investments such as Internet telephony company Skype, Inc and Chinese search engine Baidu.com Inc. The firm, which broke away from DFJ in 2006, invests in India out of a global fund. Last year, it...

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Deals will take longer to close': KPCB & Sherpalo Ventures - Outlook for 09 Part IV

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Namitha Jagadeesh - Mint Venture capitalist Sandeep Murthy invests in India for a partnership of two venture firms - Silicon Valley biggie Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Ram Shriram's Sherpalo Ventures. In 2008, the partnership made two new investments - mobile advertising firm mKhoj, online photoprinting company ZoomIn - and participated...

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New Year Resolutions (or is it New Year’s Resolutions?)

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From Sushmita Bose It's a brand new year, and this time around, I will do something that I have never, ever done in my life: make a few New Year Resolutions. And I hope to live by them! But first, a teeny-weeny bit about New Year's Eve in Dubai. Shakira was the Big Thing in the UAE capital and the neighbouring emirate of Abu Dhabi. Just 150...

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'It's a forest fire': Norwest Venture Partners - Outlook for 09 Part I

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From Namitha Jagadeesh, Mint Capital efficiency will be the new mantra for venture capitalists this year. Yesterday, we carried in the paper the overall outlook for Indian venture capital in 2009 . Starting today, we bring you a ten-part series of interviews with VCs investing in India, their individual investment thesis for 2009, sectors of interest...

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‘Lack of product innovation disappointing’: DFJ – Outlook for 09 Part II

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From Namitha Jagadeesh, Mint Venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson began 2008 leading an $18.5 million third round in travel portal Cleartrip , and followed it up with five other deals, including e-waste management company Attero Recycling and online education company Catura Systems . The firm, which set up India office in late 2007 with a $100 million...

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'Almost all sectors will see revenue stress': Sequoia Capital India - Outlook for 09 Part III

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From Namitha Jagadeesh, Mint Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital rang alarm bells in the US Silicon Valley last October with the now infamous ‘R.I.P Good Times' presentation it made to portfolio companies in an emergency meeting. Its India entity, which invests from a dedicated pool of capital, repeated the message to portfolio companies here a...

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Goodbye 2008 and hello 2009

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From the Views Pages Phew, what a year this has been! Indian shares lost nearly half their market value. Investors were dizzy after several bouts of gut-wrenching volatility. The expensive trophy assets some local companies acquired abroad started resembling ticking time bombs. The optimistic belief that the Indian economy would continue to grow at...

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Review of the Year: Ghajini

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From Priya Ramani: When a seething Aamir Khan rams an iron pipe through a man’s stomach in the first few minutes of the film, you get an idea of what’s coming (in the original Tamil version, there’s apparently a tap attached to the pipe and when hero Surya turns it on blood comes dripping out) in the next three hours. It seems only fitting that 2008...

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Jobs: The worst of 2008 and the best of 2009

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From Taru Bahl, Mint The son, a fresh grad picked up from college looked pretty smug to see that his company, an FMCG, figured in a sector that is likely to beat the recession. He also realized he was part of a lucky batch that saw campus recruitments at the graduate level. Not one to let the poor boy breathe easy in that brief moment of reckoning,...

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A Top 10 Expat List for 2008

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From Aruna Vishwanatha, Mint In the spirit of the holiday season and year-end top ten lists, I thought I should do one of my own. I came to India last December, so the timing seemed right to reflect on reaching the one-year mark, with my top 10 best and worst moments of being an expat in Delhi. While creating this list, I realized that most of the bad...

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The (other) Top 10 Games of 2008 List

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From Krish Raghav, Mint (The official one, as far as it can be called official, is here ) So, 2008. It's probably the first year I can recall, as a gamer, not being able to play all the games I wanted to...and not just because of financial and time constraints, but also because sometimes, you really had to choose between two or three excellent titles...

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Lessons from a survivor

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A friend sent me this email today: Rahul's miraculous escape - Some thoughts From: rahulwelde I wont go much into details of what happened that night. To cut the long story short - I was holed up in my room at the Taj hotel the fateful night of the terrorist attack. Managed to escape by the skin of my teeth at around 4 am - in sheer denial of allowing...

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Bangalore on high alert

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From PTI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked the Bangalore police to be on high alert to prevent any untoward incidents. “Your responsibilities are high and I am confident that you will discharge your responsibilities,” Singh, who arrived here on a day’s visit, told Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari. Also read this story from The Hindu on beefed...

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Should we stay or should we go?

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The New York Times is reporting that the Sangat Chamber Music Festival (organized by the Mehli Mehta Foundation), which was slated to be held in Mumbai this month, has been moved to Sweden . This is the latest in a line of high-profile cancellations, including most notably Live Earth (the Anoushka Shankar/Jethro Tull concert has been rescheduled for...

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The aftermath...An angry Mumbai picks itself up: A call for action.

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By Neelam Verjee Monday morning in Mumbai, and the schools, colleges and offices have re-opened as the city attempts to "return to normal". Answers and explanations are being sought, amid a sense of real anger and disgust at security failings by the government. Social networking sites, as well as blogs, call for various forms of citizen action...

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