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Ramesh Srivats of digital branding firm TenTenTen provided some hilarious ones in Businessworld : All births will be announced on Facebook, and all deaths on Twitter. Google Plus will look on enviously. Flipkart will get a few hundred million dollars from VCs in March, July, and maybe November" The unkindest cut however was reserved for the future of the newspaper: The newspaper, in the meanwhile, will become a useful archive of all the stuff you read the previous day. It will totally integrate with your digestive system — wrapper for samosas, napkin to wipe mouth, fan to keep you cool while digesting, and companion while ejecting said samosas. Ouch! Ouch! and Ouch! PS: Obviously, the article was published well before the sad passing away of Sunanda Tharoor .  Venture Intelligence is the leading provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India. Click Here to view...

Vijay Anand of accelerator The Startup Centre has an interesting post on how entrepreneurs often end up wasting precious time by getting all excited about the research expeditions of associates at VC firms. When you get an email or a call from a VC Firm, the first question to ask is to get them to introduce themselves. If its an associate – or if you are getting an email, check up on the site of the firm and see if their name or picture is listed anywhere – just ignore them. They are timesinks and just doing their homework for the monday meeting where they have to present a list of companies. ...It takes us (at the startup centre) atleast three weeks to get a team back and focused on the product and business, once they get one of these stupid emails. The team thinks they are already fundable, and someone from a VC firm reached out to THEM! OMG. ...I came across another startup earlier this week which is chasing a fund that does typically series B rounds, and the indivi...

From the post by Alok Mittal - who incidentally wears both hats - at VentureWoods: The venture capital industry in India is relatively small. And besides sporadic instances of “spray and pray”, it has mostly remained tight and focused its resources on one or two bets in a given area. That means that not more than 3-4 companies in any given space get to Series A. Angel investors need to understand this dynamic, and hence not just look at whether a company could build a good business, but also whether it has credible chances of raising the next round of capital to get there. A small VC industry also poses the issue of volatility - couple of VCs talking about an area being over-invested in enough to create a sudden negative sentiment. ...Is the Indian angel investor ready to lead? Are we ready to step up to the plate and make bets that we know VCs don’t like/understand today? Are we simply going to follow what we expect VCs to do 12 month down the line, or are we going to show them...