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Goldman Sachs Report- India can afford to spend $1.7 trillion on Infrastructure
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Topics :  Finance · India · Sep 17, 2009

A pretty interesting report by Goldman Sachs outlining that India can afford to spend $1.7 trillion on Infrastructure. This higher spending can be primary supported by a higher savings rate, favorable demographics and a robust government, household and external balance sheet.


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Two More Indian Early Stage and Seed VC Funds- Song Advisors and Epiphany
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Topics :  Venture Capital · India · Sep 08, 2009

There has been a lot of talk about how the gap in Indian VC investments is not really in the Series A stage (i.e. $2-5M range) but in the seed range i.e. in the $250k-$1M range.


There have been quite a few Venture Capital funds operating in India with this model including Ojas Ventures , SeedFund ,  Erasmic (Now Accel) , VenturEast, FootPrint Ventures , Singularity Ventures and a few more.

Now we have two more, one of which I had heard about before, Song Advisors (backed by Google, Soros and Omidyar Network and also advised by my friend Reuben Abraham ...
Nandan Nilekani's, ex-head of Infosys and Head of India's National Identification Authirity, on his first day in Indian parliament
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Topics :  India · Jul 27, 2009

Nandan Nilekani's brief of his first day in parliament!  Continuing my tryst with capturing the life and times of Nandan Nilekani in his new avatar as a Cabinet Minister, here is what he had penned after his first day in the Parliament. The last entry stopped when the House was just about to begin. Let’s see what happened thereafter….The House was in pin drop silence. I was brimming with anticipation and excitement. Manmohan had informed me that my introduction was one of the important points of the agenda. I hoped that I will be able to make ...

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