The new initiatives for this year include the formation of TiE Angels- a group of accredited TiE Charter Member investors with the goal of supporting top tier emerging companies with early stage investment and support.
The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT, Mumbai, is organising the Entrepreneurship Summit '09 on February 7
Four Indian-Americans, including Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, are among Forbes 400 Richest People in America, a list topped by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
The venture capital industry is optimistic about renewed investments this year, with focus shifting primarily to the green technology sector, a survey by global consultancy KPMG LLP said.
Venture capital investments grew at a rapid pace across the US in the April-June quarter of 2011, surging by 19 per cent to $7.5 billion, says a new report.
Former Indian Foreign Secretary, Shyam Saran will headline a major conference this week on the expectations and consequences of the US-India Nuclear Agreement, hosted by The Brookings Institution,
'We will continue to foster high risk technology innovation and unproven but high impact science experiments.'
A pass-through in taxation means that the business entity need not pay tax. Instead, all taxable income is passed through to its owners or members.
The show, called Vulture's Nest, is based on Dragon's Den -- a venture-capitalist television programme that originated in Japan, where entrepreneurs pitched their ideas to secure investment finance from business experts. IIT-B has tied up with a private news channel to telecast the show.
Venture capitalist and Silicon Valley tycoon, Kanwal Rekhi, on Saturday said that recession is the best time to be an investor and an entrepreneur.
Infosys co-founder and chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy and Infosys Foundation chairperson Sudha Murthy's daughter, Akshata, is all set to tie nuptial knot with an Indian classmate of hers from Stanford Business School on August 29, family sources said.
N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder and chief mentor of India's second-largest IT services provider Infosys Technologies, is planning to invest in US-based clean technology venture capital fund Siderian Ventures.
Thanks to the innovative concept of 'crowd funding', anyone can now become a shareholder in new projects and partake in their profits.
The message from the TiE conference was to take the economic downturn as an opportunity to listen and learn from the customers and for budding entrepreneurs to commence their ventures.
Hasan is also one of the leading fund-raisers for the party and its candidates in California and the leading Indian American 'bundler' of contributions, first for the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton and now for Senator Barack Obama.
Challenge the status quo, question the why behind processes, and push yourself and your organisation. That's how you will win, even if you 'lose' is Neha Sampat's advice to wannabe entrepreneurs.
Relations between founders and investors in the start-up universe - remains as tricky as ever.
The TiE-ISB Connect 2007, India's largest networking event for entrepreneurs and investors, will be held this year during November 14 through 16 at the ISB Campus in Hyderabad.
VCs also do not want to under-finance companies and are ensuring that the current capital infusion takes them through at least 18-24 months, which is the expected time when the outside fundraising environment starts to recover, says Alok Mittal.
After a stretch of lousy returns Silicon Valley's VCs are searching for companies with novel traits: rising revenue and profits.
Today's smartest investors are asking about India, not China. India has seven times more impact on the US than China! Smart investors know that Indian companies' return on equity is 21 per cent compared with 10 per cent for China.
Venture capitalists (VCs) invested around $928 million (around Rs 3,700 crore) in 80 India-based firms during 2007 -- a 166 per cent increase over the $349 million invested in 36 deals in 2006 --, according to the latest quarterly India Venture Capital report published by Dow Jones VentureSource.
Venture capitalists are moving beyond clean tech and social networks.
Here are some of the ideas that venture capitalists put millions into last year
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has earned a year's worth of bragging rights -- he is the only person of Indian origin to feature in Vanity Fair's annual power list of 100 most influential people.
'It doesn't matter where you come from. If you strongly believe in your idea and we see potential in scaling it up, there are people to back it up.'
Even as venture capitalists and private equity players are combing the Indian landscape for deals, here comes competition from least expected of sources.
This was the first Indian-American fundraiser for Clinton not only in Silicon Valley, but on the entire West Coast of the USA.
Companies that venture capitalists helped launch hauled in $34 billion from 86 public offerings and 304 acquisitions last year
The first quarter of the calendar year 2007 is already over. There is no sign of the VC story slowing down. This is a good sign for all the entrepreneurs out there with an idea!
GoAir is believed to be mulling over bringing in a new equity partner from among three aspirants, including a leading Indian corporate and a global venture capitalist - a move that would help the Wadias- promoted airline to expand its fleet to 40 aircraft by 2012.
Asserting that India offers unprecedented opportunities for entrepreneurs in biotechnology industry, Minister of State for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal has invited venture capitalists, experts in the field and non-resident Indians to invest the
Venture capitalist Alok Mittal shares his views on entrepreneurship and offers advice to young entrepreneurs.
Some thumb rules from entrepreneurs to help you set up and get going.
In a world awash with capital everyone is out hunting for the next Big Business Idea.
