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Anand Sanwal of CB Insights has a tongue-in-cheek template for (US-based) VCs that are out to advise startups on the "importance of conserving cash" and "focusing on turning profitable". Extract: Part 2 – Package up basic rules of business and sound smart Cash is king – remind people that having money in the bank is important cuz great founders regularly forget this. Talk about living to fight another day. Get to cash flow positive – implore founders to find a way to get to cash flow positive. Pretend that bringing in more cash than you spend is a concept you just invented.  Make hard decisions – tell founders that they may have to make hard decisions about their team and laying off folks. Say things like “you may have to cut some muscle as well as fat” to show that you mean business. Have reasonable valuation expectations – ensure that people know we’re in a brave new world and that valuations have come down and that founders will have to reset their expec...

Just a day after entrepreneur Sumanth Raghavendra started listing out "Good VCs and Angels in India" on Twitter , Mint has published a 2.5 page "tell all" by Printo founder Manish Sharma  on the issues he faced with his VC investor. The main focus of the problem seems to hinge around "tranching" - ie , the investor staggering the transfer of the investment amount based on performance milestones - and how circumstances changed (owing to the 2008 global market meltdown) by the time the next installment came due. With markets looking shaky almost exactly eight years since, the Printo tale seems a timely one for entrepreneurs agreeing to tranches in their funding agreements. Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India. Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Weekly Edition of the Deal Digest: India...

Mint has a column on Impact Investments leveraging Venture Intelligence data. Highlights from the Venture Intelligence Social VC Report for 2015 can be viewed here . Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India. Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Weekly Edition of the Deal Digest: India's First & Most Exhaustive Transactions Newsletter.

Minister for Communications & IT Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad handing over Letter to V. Balakrishnan and Chinnu Senthilkumar of Exfinity Ventures Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister of Communications & IT, handed over letter of commitments (of between INR 10 crore and INR 40 crore) from the INR 2,200 Crore Electronics Development Fund (EDF), a Fund-of-Funds sponsored by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology with CanBank Venture Capital Fund as its Investment Manager, to funds managed Karnataka Semiconductor Venture Capital Fund (managed by KITVEN), Exfinity Venture Partners, Forum Synergies and Endiya Partners. Mr. Prasad launched the EDF web site and provided the Inaugural Address at the event that Venture Intelligence helped organize. Other dignitaries who spoke at the EDF launch event included Rajiv Bansal, Joint Secretary, DeitY; Dr. Aruna Sharma, Secretary, DeitY; Mr. Rakesh Sharma, MD & CEO, Canara Bank and Mr. S.Thiruvadi, MD, Canbank V...

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