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From the CB Insights newsletter of April 13, 2016: From the CB Insights newsletter of April 15, 2016: While we can't help but smile at CB's pugnacity, at Venture Intelligence, our culture has been to publish quarterly trend reports as  as early as possible  (to satisfy our demanding media friends) but also with as much  accuracy and worthwhile details  as possible.  Related Reading:  Should You Diss the Competition? Sachin Bansal, Kunal Bahl trade barbs on Twitter over Alibaba moves 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.

Mint has extracted a list of 14 VCs of Indian origin in the US who made it to CB Insights' Top 100 VC . There are 5 more desi names on the CB list (not sure which one Mint has excluded): 80 Samir Kaul Khosla Ventures 91 Satish Dharmaraj Redpoint Ventures 92 Venky Ganesan Menlo Ventures 93 Ravi Mhatre Lightspeed Venture Partners 97 Jani.Amish Amish Jani FirstMark Capital While Vinod Khosla (probably the best known VC of Indian origin of all time) himself is not on the CB list, two folks from Khosla Ventures - a fund he founded and leads - are. 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.

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...