Articles from Alok Mittal

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Financing: Acquisition, Funding

  1. Racing under the Yellow Flag

    VentureWoods (Nov 18 2008) Explore Article

    Great article on innovation in tough times. Caution: ensure survival first, then read this. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal

  2. Rediff Enterprise Value $24M

    VentureWoods (Nov 11 2008) Funding Explore Article

    Interesting coverage on rediff - its now at $24M enterprise value. As much as for a long time, Rediff commanded high valuations that few could explain, it now seems to have gone in the other direction. Would love to get people’s views on whats happening here. As a bellwether for Indian internet industry, these numbers reset [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Rediff   Alok Mittal

  3. Lessons in Service Management - The Airtel mChek fiasco

    VentureWoods (Oct 18 2008) Explore Article

    This is first in series of posts where I will share some of my (unfortunately, mostly negative) experiences with brands, with a purpose to highlight my learnings in designing services and managing customer experience. Will welcome contributions and experiences from others as well. This one has to do with Airtel and there newly launched slew of [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal   Airtel

  4. TiECon 2008 Delhi

    VentureWoods (Oct 15 2008) Explore Article

    TiEcon Delhi 2008 scheduled from October 22nd - 24th, 2008 at Hotel Maurya Sheraton would be one of the largest conventions for entrepreneurs and is the eighth consecutive TiEcon hosted by TiE Delhi. The theme of this year’s conference is “Entrepreneurship Comes of Age” TiEcon’s in India have attracted people who are CEO’s, successful entrepreneurs, industry [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   TiE   Alok Mittal

  5. Tighten up

    VentureWoods (Oct 8 2008) Explore Article

    I had done this post six months back with some experiences from the bust, and a promise to come back with more if things worsened. That the financial world is in turmoil is old news now. Recapping some lessons for startups from a crunch: Cash is king - raise money if you can; don’t vacillate on [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal   Canaan Partners

  6. Dare Interview - Recapping Canaan in India

    VentureWoods (Sep 12 2008) Mobile , Acquisition Explore Article

    Krishna has done a good interview to recap how Canaan is looking at India, over two years after we entered the market. I am not easily given to cross posting my own interview :), but this one was successful in bringing out some new elements: No change is good news - over past couple of years, [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Canaan Partners

  7. 3G - What does it mean for startups?

    VentureWoods (Aug 19 2008) Explore Article

    The promise of 3G is live again, and as consumers, I am sure most of us are looking forward to it. It would be great to get people’s views on what it might mean for startup opportunities. Some of my thoughts: 3G in India is fundamentally about cheaper scalable voice capacity. At a basic level, 3G [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal

  8. iYogi raises $9.5M Series B from SAP, Canaan, SVB

    VentureWoods (Jul 24 2008) Funding Explore Article

    Glad to announce that iYogi has raised their Series B investment of $9.5M led by SAP ventures, with follow-on investments from Canaan Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. You might remember the $3.1M Series A investment last April - the company has progressed very well since then. What is really encouraging is that iYogi, along [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Canaan Partners   Alok Mittal

  9. ESOP Successes - Onmobile On Steam

    VentureWoods (Jul 9 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    Someone anonymously posted this comment to our earlier story. Based on Onmobile’s public filings, the person has done an analysis, which indicates the successes in Onmobile ESOP plan. The analysis is based on share price of Rs 520 as of July 8th. While these are estimates, it seems that they are broadly right - I [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   OnMobile   Alok Mittal

  10. Universal McCann Social Media Report

    VentureWoods (Jul 3 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    Interesting report from Universal McCann on social media. With respect to India, while overall Internet penetration remains abyssmal, some of the social media metrics fare better (on base of 17M active users in target group): 85% read blogs, with fairly high frequency of usage 66% have created a profile on a social network, and frequently update it 65% [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal

  11. Proto Delhi - Last few tickets for Venturewoods readers

    VentureWoods (Jun 30 2008) Explore Article

    Proto.in, over the past two years has been slowly building a community of startup entrepreneurs, and has been successful in its mission. The fourth edition of the event, is to be right here in Delhi, in the campus of IIT Delhi, on the dates of 18th and 19th. There is a fair bit of elite [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Nasscom   Alok Mittal   Iamai

  12. ESOP Successes - Quasar Crorepatis

    VentureWoods (Jun 17 2008) Explore Article

    Quasar has been kind to share some of the success stories on ESOPs - these employees made about 1 crore each when WPP acquired a majority stake in Quasar. Thanks to Quasar for sharing the same. Deven DharamdasaniBusiness DirectorAge 29Joined Oct-2004  Gopikaa DavarAssociate DirectorAge 26Joined Jun-2002  Manish SinhaVP - ProjectsAge 35Joined Dec-2005  Piyush RathiBusiness DirectorAge 32Joined Feb-2006  Richa BurmanCreative DirectorAge [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal   Vijay Singh

  13. ESOP or something else?

    VentureWoods (May 28 2008) Explore Article

    We have had discussions earlier here on attracting great talent to startups, and what the key motivators are. Clearly, there are other motivators besides money in a startup decision - such as sense of purpose, role that one can play, and so on. However, the more I talk to entrepreneurs around, the more evident is [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal

  14. Top management recruiting

    VentureWoods (May 5 2008) Explore Article

    Businessweek has a nice refresher on recruiting top management. While it primarily seems to be written for large companies, the lessons are equally relevant to startups. Of course, there are some additional points one needs to keep in mind when recruiting for startups: Sell a personal vision - not just of where the company wants to [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal

  15. Brand advertising on Internet - Position it right!

    VentureWoods (Apr 16 2008) Explore Article

    Kamla Bhatt sent me a link to this post, and it sparked off a few thoughts. What has worked well on the internet so far is performance advertising/ lead generation. Most people who are looking to enhance brand presence on the web seem to be taking a PR oriented route to it. Unfortunately, PR budgets [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal   Kamla Bhatt

  16. Angels fund 57,000 companies for $26b

    VentureWoods (Apr 6 2008) Explore Article

    Don Dodge covers the Angel Capital report from Center for Venture Research for the US Angel space. Some quick stats: 258,200 active angels invested $26b in 57,120 companies in 2007. VCs invested $29.4b in 3,813 companies. The ratios are revealing in the kind of pipeline it takes for a vibrant ecosystem, and proportionate amount of dollars [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Mumbai Angels   Alok Mittal   Indian Angel Network

  17. Lessons from the bust

    VentureWoods (Mar 17 2008) Explore Article

    I might be calling this a little early, but in times such as these, its better to be early than dead. Now that the Sensex is 30% (Nasdaq 25%) off recent peaks, and US economy heading downwards, here are some lessons from the last time we went through this: Cash is king - raise money if [...] (Read Full Article)

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  18. BarCamp Mumbai - 29th Mar

    VentureWoods (Mar 15 2008) Explore Article

    BarCamp Mumbai 2 was a big hit with over 200 attendees and a day full of discussions on many interesting topics and ideas. BarCamp Mumbai 3 is now on the cards for 29th March at School of Management at IIT Mumbai. In the true spirit of BarCamp it’s an open platform which anyone can make [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IIT Bombay   Alok Mittal   Barcamp

  19. Canaan closes $650M fund

    VentureWoods (Feb 6 2008) Explore Article

    Happy to report that we have announced closure of our eighth fund at $650M. The fund will continue to focus on early stage technology businesses in US, India and Israel. India could account for upto 25% of the fund commitments. For our India operations, this is a significant increase in commitment. We started investing in India [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal   Harish Gandhi

  20. Back to vortals

    VentureWoods (Jan 30 2008) Explore Article

    Remember vortals from the dotcom hey days? For those who dont recognize the term, it stood for vertical portals - go after a particular target group, and provide range of services to them - our first business before we gravitated to jobsahead was a “vortal” called zipahead for Indian youth! Well, the vortal is back. I [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal

  21. Harish Gandhi joins Canaan Partners

    VentureWoods (Jan 15 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    Happy to announce that Harish Gandhi has joined Canaan Partners’ India team. Prior to joining Canaan Partners, Harish headed the Value Added Services (VAS) Business and the New Product Development team at Bharti Airtel. In his product development role, Harish was responsible for working with a number of VAS product, service and content companies as [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Alok Mittal   Canaan Partners   Nokia

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