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We see a list of venture capitalist as a great resource for budding entrepreneurs irrespective of their size and stage. Keeping this in view we present a list of venture capitalists in India. We have decided to group the lists city wise at a later stage to make it easier for entrepreneurs to locate vc’s withing their city. As we gather more data we will probably create a tool to easily find vcs matching your criteria.

We hope with the help of the community we will be able to keep this list expanding and accurate.

Note: For now this list is grouped in no particular order.

1. Name: IDG Ventures India

 

Description: IDG Ventures India is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology and technology-enabled companies.

We are part of IDG Ventures, a global network of local venture funds backed by IDG, the world’s largest IT-focused media company.(Off their website)

 

Website:http://www.idgvcindia.com/

 

Email: bplan@idgvcindia.com

 

Key contact: Sudhir Sethi

Email: NA

 

Type:  Early stage/India focussed presence

 

Focus: Internet/Gaming/Software

 

Past Investments: Manthan systems, Kreeda, ozone media

 

Office in: Mumbai, Bangalore, Mauritius

 

Corpus: NA

 

 2. 

Name: Sequoia Capital

 

Description: One of the better known venture capitals firms, past investments include Google, yahoo, Nvidia and others. Most investments are made through primary contacts. Investment sizes varies from 100k - $50M. Preferred exit strategy IPO.

 

Website: http://www.sequoiacap.com/india/venture-capital/

 

Email: startindia@sequoiacap.com

 

Key contact: NA (http://www.sequoiacap.com/people/)

Email: NA

 

Type:  Early stage to IPO/Global prescence

 

Focus: Internet/Gaming/Software/Networks/Media/LifeStyle & Leisure

 

Past Investments: Google, Yahoo, Edelweiss, FirstSource, Times Internet

 

Office in: Mumbai, Bangalore

 

 3.Company Name: 2i Capital (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Description: NA

Website: www.2icapital.com

Type:   Early Stage / Growth

Development/ Expansion

 

 

 

Key Contacts: Vivek Sekhar

Designation: Principal

Email:     vivek.sekhar@2icapital.com

               kislay.kanth@2icapital.com

 

 

Size of Investments:   Less than 10 Million

Focus: Industry Focus            IT, Computer Software, Computer Hardware, IT Enabled Services

           Biotech

 

Offices: Delhi,  Bangalore

 

Address: 613, Oxford Towers, 139, Airport Road, Bangalore- 560 008, India

 

Tel:  +91.80.5115.1990-3

Fax: +91.80.5115.1994

 

Delhi Office

Tel:  +91.11.5565.7267

Fax: +91.11.5166.2420

 

4. Name: Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd

 

Description: NA

Website: http://www.sequoiacap.com/india/venture-capital/

 

Email: v.sreenivasulu@intel.com

 

Key contact: Sreenivasulu V

Email: v.sreenivasulu@intel.com

 

Type:  Early stage to IPO/Global prescence

 

Focus: Internet/Gaming/Software/Networks

 

Past Investments: NA

 

Office in: Bangalore

Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd.

136 Airport Rd.

Bangalore, Karnataka 560 017, India

Tel. +91-80-2507-5000

Fax +91-80-520-2464

 

4. Helion Venture Partners, LLC

 

 

Description: NA

Website:

 

Email:

 

Key contact: Ashish Gupta

Email: N/A

 

Type:  Second round/Expansion

 

Focus: Outsourcing, Internet, Mobile, Technology Products, Retail Services, Education and Financial Services

 

Past Investments: MakeMyTrip.com, Komli, smsgupshup.com

 

Office in: Bangalore/Gurgaon

Bangalore Office
Helion Advisors Pvt Ltd
First Floor, Pine Valley
Embassy Golflinks Business Park
Koramangala Intermediate Ring Road
Bangalore 560 071
Karnataka, India

Tel: +91 80 4018 3333
Fax: +91 80 4018 3456
Email: contact.helion@gmail.comGurgaon (NCR) Office
Helion Advisors Pvt Ltd
Block B, 9th Floor
Vatika Towers, Sector 54
Gurgaon 122 002
Haryana, India

Tel: +91 124 461 5333
Fax: +91 124 461 5345
Email: contact.helion@gmail.com

 Corpus: $350

 

 

5. Name: Kubera partners

Description:

Key contact: Kumar Mahadeva

Email: info@kuberapartners.com

Focus on: Outsourcing/services/technology/biotech/Other

Type: Early stage expansion

Office in:

Mumbai

Kubera Advisors Private Limited
Nirlon House, 5th Floor
Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli
Mumbai 400025

Tel  +91 (22) 4034 8600
Fax +91 (22) 4034 8686

6. Name: UTI Ventures

Website:http://www.utiventures.com/index.html

Description:UTI Ventures is a leading Indian private equity firm.
Focused on growth capital, we propel the ambitions of passionate Indian entrepreneurs, while unlocking superior returns for our investors. Our demonstrated track record of successful investments, led by an experienced management team, positions our funds among top performers in India.(website)

Key contact: NA

Email:info@utiventures.com

Focus on: Energy/Technology/outsourcing/media/retail/others

Type: NA

Offices in:

UTI Ventures
Concorde Block
16th Floor, UB City
#24 Vittal Mallya Road
Bangalore 560 001

Tel: +91 80 3055 1200
Fax: +91 80 3055 1234

 

If you wish to add our firm here or suggest a VC firm email info [a t].appliedeye.com with “VC List” in the subject line.

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The US government came out with a act called no child left behind act in 2001. The act aims to empower students who are getting left behind compared to the more successful peers.

Good move in our books.

But a classroom is not the only place where people get left behind. We know it happens every where from a startup to a fortune 500 company. We know it happens to your customers when they visit your website, use your software and products.

So we started the “no user left behind”philosophy, now we are offering interactive video manuals as a service along with our usability analysis and optimization service. Using our video presentation techniques, you can now help your users feel confident while using our easy to follow video manual.

Here are some scenarios where you might be using this:

1. Simplify Internet/Intranet Apparitions for users: We can make interactive video manuals for your websites, forms and intranet applications so that your users can simply view the video and learn how they are supposed to use a application. No more technical assistance required, just point them to video and watch them become pros.

2. Software user interface video manuals: Use this service to simplify user interface and provide simple “how to” videos on demand for your users. Something that is always available, whenever they wish to view it.

3. Product videos/demos/Walk throughs: Use our service to provide your users with video walk throughs, feature tours of your software or create a self help video library letting them help themselves.

We believe something like this cut your support costs hugely and make any user more productive. if you have any questions do email us at info [a t].appliedeye.com

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Usability and user centered design for long has been ragarded as a second priority by software companies and consumer product companies. In the recent times the focus has started to shift to better the existing models.

Steve Krug’s book “Don’t make me think” probably was the first one that started a new phase in usability design and usability as a discipline started to emerge.

The idea is simple. A user should not have to read a 100 page manual and take a training course to get started using a product, but take a look around and you find all the enterprise softwares take weeks and months of training just to get the users comfortable with the idea of using a SAP or an Oracle.

Companies spend millions of dollars in licensing enterprise software and then some more on training their employees to sue this software, most times all the features and so called flexibility that these enterprisey softwares provide is never used by these companies, but they do make the software difficult to use.

Learning stress is something that every organization needs to evaluate when buying a enterprise software. If a lean software would make it easier for their employees to get their job done than that should be prefered over a “infinite feature enterprise” software that scares the hell out of your employees.

Enterprise software will never take a enterprise anywhere if the employees are never going to use it, and user adoption for many enterprise software projects end up beiing low enough to not justify the huge investments.

Software shouldn’t be another full time job your employees need to do, they don’t need to learn, read, operate, make mistake, upgrade, learn again, ask, ask some more, ask “whos the right guy to ask this?”, ask “how do i”, ask “where is the IT guy?” or say “this software sucks”.

Stay lean, stay agile, get the work done. Simple is beautiful.

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Being in the software product development we often get questions like how are software product development firms any different from offshore outsourcing firms? What is your differentiation?What do you offer that infosys and wipros do not offer?

These are valid questions but not surprisingly they often come from people who are not looking to innovate a product, people who are looking to innovate a product or service inherently know in their minds a regular software development firm will not fit the bill.

To start with a innovator looking to create a product or service is like rugby player who has the ball in his hand and is running towards the goal post like his life depends on it. And it does.

Only an innovator can understand an innovator. Period.

The major offshore outsourcing companies have been around for decades yet they have never attempted or delivered a product. This in the face of an appreciating rupee and shrinking margins.

There are various factors  that differentiate a outsourced product development firm from a regular software outsourcing house.

We mention the top 10 reasons why an outsourced product development firm is completely different from software outsourcing company.

1. Approach

2. Process

3. Delivery

4. Design

5. Trusted Partners

6. Risk Ability

7. People

8. Project handing

9. Service level agreements

10. Ownership

We will discuss all the points in details in the coming postings. Meanwhile if you would like to provide your point of view feel free to comment and let us know.

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SaaS or Software as a service has been around for a decade but never really took off into the mainstream, the main reasons why it never took off were security reasons, reliability & availability, user adoption,  preference of major players to keep SaaS out, technology limitations.

Salesforce.com was the first one to break the barrier to entry into SaaS enterprise space forcing major players like oracle, sap, ibm, microsoft to get on the SaaS bandwagon.

The bigger players had a vested interest in enterprise software remain on legacy systems. few reasons are stated as below.

Since the hardware is shared in SaaS the sale of hardware in the enterprise segment will go down for server makers.

Its easy to sell software to less for more.

Making software available online also means letting the intellectual property in the open for smaller players to immitate the same software and pose a threat by reducing margins in the segment.

SaaS levels the playing field up for smaller player, which is something bigger players will not want.

In a 5 part series we take a look at the history of SaaS, its failures and successes, advantages and disadvantages, technical perspectives and architecture, issues in user adoption and marketing of SaaS and what the future holds.

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The web(in context of social media optimization) can be divided into the following parts:
1. Social networks
Myspace, orkut, hi5, linkedin etc.
2. Social Bookmarking sites
d*gg, stumbleupon etc.
3. Content sharing sites
Slideshare, esnip, scribd, youtube etc.
4. Forums and community sites

sitepoint, webmasterworld, small business forum etc.

5. Blogosphere

influencing opinion by blogging yourself and promoting popular blogs like instapundit, boeing boeing, engadget, gigaom, specific and/or industry user blogs hosted on worpress blogs, typepad, blogger etc. and/or blogging communites like seomoz

6. Virals

7. Promoting feeds of your content using RSS, articles sites ezine,

8. PR sites/News Press releases on PR sites like prweb, spreadings news on news submission sites like topix.net

The list is by no means exhaustive. Each of these parts can be influenced to some degree in your favor.

The terms social media optimization is just another wannabe term to be honest its like search engine optimization which makes no sense as no one is optimizing a search engine here.

The cycle goes like this analyze:strategise:create: execute: track: iterate

A term like “social media promotion” is more adept for this than a confusing term like social media optimization in my opinion as with Google opening up open social platform will in effect make the whole web/mobile platform more social.

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Recently Googles orkut followed footsteps of facebook and opened orkut website to developers, which means developers can built apps that cna be consumed by orkut members and use orkuts data.

More importantly Google has built orkut on the open social platform which promises to make every social website a container which can lend itself to be used by application developers to harness the social data that these social networks have to make application which can leverage these relationships between friends and networks.

In the coming time as the race to become a container for opensocial platform becomes hotter, application developers who know how opensocial platform works and facebook application will see a huge demand.

As stated on google blog a social web is good, but it will not come without its share of problems. We will write more about the negative impacts of the opensocial platform in the next series.

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Web promotion is a important part of any companies marketing strategy. But most companies and individuals are get lost in the available sources online.

Here is are 10 most important steps for any company thinking of using internet to fill their lead pipelines.

1. Search engine optimization

In the information its best to attract your customers by information. Search engine optimization is a way by which you release quality content for your target audience and then nake sure the content is found on the major search engines.

This is why bigger companies like IBM, SUN, Microsoft let users create blogs on their website and write content.

2. pay per click advertising

Pay per click advertising means placing ads in search engines at the instant a user is searching for information, while being placed in the natural results would be the best option it is not possible to rank high for thousands of keywords. the next best thing is to pay search engine a per click price which decided by auction.

Be extremely careful with pay per click as it can rob of your marketing budget very quickly, the effectiveness of the campaign depends on campaign design.

This post is not complete, please visit back for further post.

3.  Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is increase leads and business by letting other people(called affiliates) and pay them a commission on sale or leads generated.

No successful business online can grow without an affiliate system in place, affiliate system lets you increase your sales power many times without actually hiring a sales team.

4. Email marketing

Email marketing as the name suggests means using emails to market your products or services. This can be the best form of marketing and lead generation or the best waste of marketing time you ever did if you do not do it rightly.

 

Email marketing can be further categorised as mass mailing, permission marketing to your list, permission marketing to someone elses list, email marketing to custom targetted lists developed by you or marketing to a email marketing database.

keep in mind everyone hates spam as much as y ou do. When you send a mail make sure its sent to a specfic audience who really would be interested in your product or service. Its waste of time and more importantly it hurts your brand.

This article is a stub and will be continued further…. 

 

 

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A Great company:

Sees an opportunity

creates a product

creates a market

A good company:

sees a market

sees the opportunity

creates a product

A bad company:

Sees the competitors market

Sees the competitors opportunity

Creates a product

The best companies do not plan to catch up the leader, they do not force into other peoples space, they find vacuum and expand into it.

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