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Fast Company has an interesting write up on the change in strategy by the makers of the Stag umbrellas. If you’re from Mumbai, you need no further introduction to the ubiquitous, black Stag umbrellas and the reasons to own one.

Threatened by cheaper products from China, the company switched from a low cost strategy to [...]

I watched Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday a couple months back, and I’ve been wanting to write about it. Kudos to Anurag for making this gutsy movie. The movie has been reviewed by many, so I really have nothing to add in that space. But I’ll say this - if you watched [...]

Walking around Union Square in San Francisco, I was surprised to see a huge Lord Ganesha sitting on top of the Macy’s sign. Apparently, the SFO Union Square Macy’s has a flower show every year. The theme for their 61st annual Flower show was “Imagine India”.

They got it mostly right - 20 feet Ganesha in [...]

Notes from the The South Asian Business Association (SABA) conference at Columbia University:
India shining:

50% of India’s population is under 30 years old
India #1 in milk production and #2 in fruit & veg production
Hindalco - World’s #1 Aluminium producer
Mittal - World’s #1 Steel producer
Reliance invests 22M in Chevron, Dow Chemicals and few other US based companies

Challenges [...]

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I attended an entrepreneurial forum at Stern recently. It had 5 VC’s on the panel sharing their wisdom and experiences on what VCs, angels and private equity investors look for when investing in start-ups. Some takeaways:
Quality of Idea

Defensibility (Intellectual property)
Revenue addition or multiplication (little equity required)
Huge profit margins to accommodate startup mistakes [...]

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