On ESOP’s And What Should Startup Employees Be Aware Of!

by | posted: September 9, 2009
Guest Author – Alok Kejriwal – CEO Games2win.com In an increasingly alarming rate, I have begun to receive a panic stricken call from close friends who have been cheated of their esop/ equity/promised...
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Venture Capital Beliefs & Views On Indian Internet Space – (Must Read For Online Startups)

by | posted: June 10, 2009
We had the good fortune of listening to a presentation by Ritesh Banglani from IDG Ventures India at the recently held Startup City event in Bangalore. He pointed out the assumptions and beliefs that their...
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Exclusive Interview With Morpheus Venture Partners On Their Model, Startups & Their Upcoming Fund!

by | posted: September 12, 2008
Just yesterday we blogged about the second batch of Morpheus Venture Partners companies and there were some queries on their model So we decided to have an exclusive interview with Sameer and Nandini...
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Interview with Ojas Ventures Managing Partner Dr. Rajesh Srivathsa

by | posted: August 27, 2008
WATShow interviewed Dr Rajesh Shrivathsa of Ojas Ventures when we went shooting the Startups at Proto 4. We had recently covered Ojas Ventures’ acquisition of mobile tech startup Mango Technology....
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More Funding.. 5 Million $ By Sequoia For Cybercafe Ad Network – Ideacts.com

by | posted: July 2, 2008
Its seems to be the official funding news day with earlier the announcement coming in from Ozone media regarding raising of 4 million dollars and now its time for another advertising based startup by the...
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Youtube Co-Founder Turns Venture Capitalist.

by | posted: March 21, 2008
Youtube is one of the webs most well documented successes. It can be awarded the most revolutionary innovation since the invention of television given the sheer distribution of video that it has created...
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Funding Updates : Seedfund considering investment in Mudranik, UniApply

by | posted: February 26, 2008
Moving on from the “cash prizes” handed over to the Business Plan competition winners, the business schools have now moved to awarding the winners by actual funding – something that...
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VCs invest over half a billion dollar in India in 2007

by | posted: January 30, 2008
A report by Venture Intelligence says Venture Capital firms invested around $543 million in India in 2007. A total of 98 companies were invested in, majority of them being the seed-level and stage 1 funding.   Sudhir...
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Funding Updates: AutoIndia, 123Greetings, Druvaa get funded, While Nokia says NO to Mobile VAS Funding!

by | posted: January 23, 2008
So if on one end its startups that are bubbling on the scene on the other end there are VC’s and Angel’s who are lining up to fund these startups and help in taking them to the next level....
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@Proto.in – The Crux of the Business Plan for Technology Companies – Samir Sood Google M&A Head

by | posted: January 21, 2008
WATBlog was at Proto.in over the last weekend and there were two eventful days with lots of startup action down south in chennai. On the first day there were business tracks and technology tracks where...
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Printo gets funded! 6.25 M $ from Sequoia Cap!

by | posted: October 26, 2007
Online Photo sharing and printing is one of the most crowded spaces and we have blogged about the same earlier as well and also published a presentation covering most of the players in this space. Also...
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Myntra.com gets Seed Funding from Erasmic Venture Fund

by | posted: October 24, 2007
For those who dont know Myntra.com is an online marketplace for on-demand consumer products stuff like T-Shirts, Mugs, Calendars, Keychains, Diaries etc where you can publish you own design on the product...
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FlightRaja (now known as Via) gets 5 million $ funding!

by | posted: June 6, 2007
Ok i thought the phase when travel portals were getting funding was over! But i was terribly wrong.. It seems that travel is the most funded (see list below) and the most competitive segment in the online...
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VC money overflowing in internet and mobile sectors..

by | posted: April 17, 2007
Just read these numbers from an article and it seems like VC money is overflowing.. In 2006, venture capitalists (VCs) struck 30 deals worth a total of $200 million most of which went into Internet and...
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WATBlog Exclusive – Reasons why madhouse got funded for 1.05 crores!

by | posted: January 9, 2007
Well this is not fresh news.. I came to know about Madhouse.in the online dvd video rental company getting funding around the 1st of January this year but this post is not to inform you about the funding...
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