Articles from Alok Mittal

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   (8 articles) Canaan Partners

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   (2 articles) Airtel

   (2 articles) IIT Bombay

   (2 articles) John Mullins

   (2 articles) Google

   (2 articles) Randy Komisar

   (2 articles) Vishal Gondal

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1. Die another day

   Explore Article VentureWoods (Mar 17 2010)

   Very interesting post on why “fail fast” philosophy might be ill-founded. I think partly this mantra is open to interpretation - if an idea is not working, do you wish to spend $10M on it and then realize it, or quicker? In the manner that this article refers to it, its valuable to learn and [...] (Read Full Article)
   

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2. That’s when you know a startup has made it!

   Explore Article VentureWoods (Mar 10 2010)

   Hilarious! (Read Full Article)
   

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3. Rs. 18000 crore broadband push - is this in the right direction?

   Explore Article VentureWoods (Mar 5 2010)

   ToI reports a 18000 crore broadband push by government to improve broadband access to every gram panchayat. While the initiative is welcome, it raises several questions: Investing versus creating an environment to invest: Government spending at such massive scale has been shown to be inefficient over and over again. What are the incentives that the government [...] (Read Full Article)
   

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4. GrowVC - community angel investing

   Explore Article VentureWoods (Feb 15 2010)

   Interesting concept here - www.growvc.com - entrepreneurs can now raise money from the community, kiva style. And they can invest their money into other startups to diversify their risk. With some strong on-ground facilitation (and an incentive model for the same) this can work… Thoughts? (Read Full Article)
   

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5. IBF Media event on Cloud Computing

   Explore Article VentureWoods (Jan 27 2010)

   IBF Media, through Capital Connection, is organising an event around Cloud Computing on February 25, 2010 at Ista Hotel, Bangalore The Latest Trends in Cloud Computing: An Operators and Investors Perspective This event showcases some of the latest trends in cloud computing and looks at some of the successful business models and companies in this emerging technology [...] (Read Full Article)
   

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6. Red Herring Global 100

   Explore Article VentureWoods (Jan 21 2010)

   Red Herring just came up with its Global Top 100 list. 10 companies from India - not bad! Happy to report Consim and Cellcast from the Canaan portfolio made it to the list, http://www.redherring.com/Home/26281 (Read Full Article)
   

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7. Getting into minds of Angel investors

   Explore Article VentureWoods (Jan 6 2010)

   Canaan hosted a breakfast discussion with around 30 angel investors late december on sidelines of TiE Entrepreneurial Summit. It was a great discussion, and personally I learnt a fair bit from fellow investors. The interesting part were the linkages that are developing in biases that exist between venture and angel funding, and as a result [...] (Read Full Article)
   

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8. MotorExchange raises Series A led by Canaan

   Explore Article VentureWoods (Dec 16 2009) Funding

   I am happy to announce our latest investment in MotorExchange - a B2B auto exchange for Indian market. The B2B auto market in India is over $11Bn and expected to double over next five years. It is a very early stage investment for us, and the key driver in the decision has been the [...] (Read Full Article)
   

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9. Angel Funding Framework - Structure

   Explore Article VentureWoods (Dec 15 2009)

   In my attempts to engage in angel financing, I have seen the typical concerns that potential angel investors have. Many of these have to do with the investment parameters, and figuring out how investors can get their money back (or returns) - especially given the inherent immaturity of these businesses in being able to outline [...] (Read Full Article)
   

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10. Solution for Angel drought in India?

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Nov 30 2009)

    Sarah has a good roundup of lack of angel investing activity in India. Lets get to the more interesting part - how to solve it? I ran into Vishal Gondal on a flight few weeks back and he had a model that is pretty interesting. And may be there are some other thoughts in the community. [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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11. What are you investing in Today?

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Nov 30 2009)

    Media has followed the boom and tone-down in venture capital over past 4 years. As much as last 12 months saw a dip in venture capital, I have a feeling that some of the enthusiasm from journalists declined as well. Only the most dedicated journalists have survived the theme fatigue! And as many of us [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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12. Book Review - Getting to Plan B

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Nov 13 2009)

    Just finished reading this book by John Mullins and Randy Komisar. It outlines the importance of iterating on the business to evolve the plan continuously - in many cases, the initial plan that entrepreneurs start with doesn’t work as it is. This is something that people in the venture space have known intuitively. John and [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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13. Israel: Leader in Business Innovation

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Nov 1 2009) Video

    CNBC has this interesting video on what makes Israel business innovation tick (Read Full Article)
    

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14. Will angels dirty their hands?

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Oct 29 2009)

    I was speaking to a successful entrepreneur and angel investor yesterday about the evolving angel investment climate in India. He voiced a concern that seems to strike a chord - that while many successful entrepreneurs in India are involving themselves in angel funding, and even setting up early stage funds, there is a tendency to [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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15. Entrepreneur Journeys - Vw Reviews

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Oct 9 2009)

    Sramana had announced an offer for venturewoods readers to review her first book - Entrepreneur Journeys 1. We have received some of the initial reviews, and I am happy to share those here. People who might have otherwise read the book may please comment here itself. (Read Full Article)
    

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16. Special offer for Venturewoods readers for Nasscom Product Conclave

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Oct 7 2009)

    Thanks to Nasscom for offering additional discount of INR 500 on the registrations for the Product Conclave for Venturewoods users. This means, a startup entrepreneur can attend all the sessions, Expo, networking, entertainment for just *Rs 1500.* Please quote my name (Alok Mittal) as reference, and also include your reference in the attached Registration Form; send [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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17. Does your VC suck?

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Sep 24 2009)

    Paul Jazefak has an interesting post on VC bashing. I was at the TiECon last week chairing a panel around fundraising, when the ultimate happened - a VC on the panel started bashing VCs! How much worse can it get I think part of the issue here is a lack of understanding of the [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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18. WSJ: Time required to build software companies

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Sep 4 2009)

    WSJ Venture Capital Dispatch has an interesting article on how long it takes to build large (defined there as time to get to $50M revenue) software companies. The answer: 8-9 years on an average if the sample is top 100 public software companies. Thats pretty long, given that the sample is really the top end. [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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19. TiECon Delhi - Registrations open

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Aug 25 2009)

    TiECon Delhi is being held on Sep 18th and 19th. The theme this year is “Smart Entrepreneurship in Challenging Times”. The emphasis is on highlighting winning tactics in a market where many businesses have faced uncertainty and slowdown, and external financing has become harder to raise. Registrations are open - you may register here. Looks like [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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20. “Standard term sheet” suggestions

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Aug 24 2009)

    TheFunded has published what it believes should be a standard termsheet in venture financings. Their argument is that the following balances the rights and incentives of investors and founders well, and the negotiation should be limited to valuation and amount being raised. Interesting point of view. FFI Plain Preferred Term Sheet - Chris Dixon has earlier [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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21. Sunil Mittal’s Forbes Interview

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Aug 12 2009)

    I know its all over the web by now, but couldn’t help linking it here - great perspectives on conviction, persuasion, partnerships and organizational transitions. (Read Full Article)
    

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22. Books on Entrepreneurship/ Facebook

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Aug 11 2009)

    I happened to make the following post on facebook and was amazed with the response I got there in 12 hours. Apart from the suggestions that came in, and some of them might be useful for venturewoods community, the level and timeliness of participation was great. Kinda makes blogging look like old world! Where is [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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23. Faceoff at Proto

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Aug 5 2009)

    ETNow did an interesting faceoff session with myself and Vishal Gondal at the Proto Pune edition. I quite liked the informal format - with Vishal at the other end, you can be assured of some laughter! On a more serious note, the discussion does touch upon some of the evolution of VC space in India - [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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24. Google’s Research Interests

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Jul 16 2009)

    Readwriteweb has an article on some of the research projects google is pursuing. Interesting as to the kind of problems one can try and attack at scale! What should be Google India’s list? (Read Full Article)
    

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25. Consumerization of Enterprise

    Explore Article VentureWoods (Jun 16 2009) Mobile

    The notion of enterprise customers as large monolithic technology purchasing entities is on a decline. This perhaps was first visible in sales people popping out their credit cards to buy subscription to salesforce.com. However, the trend is expanding with more and more of social web principles being applied to enterprise software. For some time now, [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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