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jyothirmayee

Indian start-ups & the missing golden touch

Jun 18, 2010 19:43

Ron Conway - The man with the Golden Touch. It was so wonderful reading this article on Ron Conway. An angel, who knows support at the right time, no matter how minuscule, means a lot. He has invested in 500 startups - including Google, Twitter & Facebook. 500 is no joke which means he has at least spoken to 5000 odd startups assuming a high 10% ( Read more... )

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American investors for India? anonymous June 21 2010, 08:22:21 UTC

Hey miss, wanted to understand if you learned as to whether American investors are looking forward to invest in startups from India (or) for startups for the Indian market?

Re: American investors for India? jyothirmayee June 21 2010, 08:52:01 UTC

ji, (guessing its ji)
There are few big funds who are actively investing like sequoia, IDG (shouldn't be counting accel - erasmic here) etc. They have lesser reservations about talking to startups/mid sized firms which have founders who have visibility in the US investment network or proven track records.

The latter case of investing specifically into "online" startups for indian market is characteristic more for a local fund.

My focus of the post is mostly about angels in India who have have been entrepreneurs themselves and visionaries.

Networking anonymous June 23 2010, 09:11:05 UTC

I wonder do you think it would make sense for a person planning to startup to first start networking and find a support group.. and then startup.

Or are you saying that there is no support group? Cause maybe some entrepreneurs realise the need for a support and network only after they have started up and then the time and effort required for effective networking might not be there.

What do you think? We at SutraLite are being supported by the Morpheus Group, you must have heard of them... what do you think of it is a venture to increase the support for startups in India.

Re: Networking jyothirmayee June 23 2010, 10:51:03 UTC

SutraLite ( ... )

anonymous August 17 2010, 08:09:35 UTC

I came across your blog while searching for skandagiri trip. I was interested to read the other posts once I saw the keywords 'startup'... I have not seen/come across many ladies(Girl should i say?) talking passionately about startups. But I could not find out about the technology used to create those products u mention. Is it .net, Java..?. Srry I am from desktop sw developement background and understand less when people say they have an application developed quickly on facebook...etc. No wonder Web technology creates entrepenaurs so quickly. We here are still mastering C++,OOAD when the web guys are becoming entreprenaurs (:(Jkng). Should I envy them? (:

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