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From elephants and snake charmers to software coders/coolies to app-toting delivery boys/dabba-walahs, the image of what's "happening" in India keeps morphing. And IIT-ians get added to the mix somewhere. " India is becoming the land of the errand app. " declared a recent Bloomberg News article that got featured in various international publications. Extracts: “People today want to do as much as possible with their phones,” said TinyOwl co-founder (Harsh Vardhan) Mandad, who graduated from Mumbai’s Indian Institute of Technology in 2012. “It is a friction just to go out – there’s the heavy traffic, pollution and waiting involved for a cab.” The startups are carving out niches by serving certain neighborhoods or parts of cities, realizing the “hyper-local” strategy long envisioned in more developed countries including the U.S. Larger e-commerce companies such as Flipkart and Snapdeal dominate online sales of more traditional goods, including books, apparel...

Trends from the Transactions Universe There have been at least eight M&A transactions involving pure play Contract Research Organization firms between January 2014 and May 2015 - versus just five deals in the entire three year period prior to 2014. Of these transactions, four have been domestic deals and three Inbound. The only Outbound transaction was GVK Biosciences' acquisition of US-based Aragen Bioscience which specializes in high-value biologics services. The Sequoia Capital India-backed GVK Bio was also a buyer domestically - acquiring Chennai-based Vanta Bioscience which offers toxicology evaluation services for the pharmaceutical, biotech, food supplements and feed additives industries. (GVK also excercised its call option to buy out Dai-Ichi Karkaria's entire stake in their joint venture Inogent which offers a mix of services  - Process R&D and Custom Chemical Synthesis & Manufacturing - and Products - APIs and Intermediates.) While GVK has been a b...

Lee Fixel, Partner & Head of Venture Capital Riding on its early and aggressive bets in the E-Commerce segment, New York-based Tiger Global Management currently enjoys a “lion’s share” of the mindshare in the Indian Venture Capital ecosystem. At the Venture Intelligence APEX’15 PE/VC Summit in March, one VC speaker candidly admitted: “ If there is one foreign investor who knows the Indian Internet & Mobile landscape better than us locals, it’s him” (meaning Lee Fixel , the head of Tiger’s VC operations) . A mid-market Private Equity investor wistfully remarked: “ While we will never be good at it as the Tigers of the world, we really need to figure out this E-Commerce thing - if we are to produce supernormal returns for our investors ”. Sharad Sharma, Angel Investor & Co-Founder iSPIRIT writes in the Economic Times : "Unfortunately, due to just one individual - Lee Fixel of Tiger Global - Flipkart has gone from being a poster child to being the single ...

Indie.vc is a new experiment (in the US) that provides equity like capital to founders in return for cash distributions from profits instead of needing to sell out or taking their company public. The philosophy: There’s a mythology that entrepreneurs need to take VC money to hit the big time. While it’s true that some companies really do need outside capital, there are many examples of great companies that have reached revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars, or even gone public, without ever taking in capital, or taking it in only at a late stage, when they’d already created a high valuation by bootstrapping the company. ...Like cement, the cultural foundation for new projects and companies sets early. Those who focus on raising outside capital and achieving fundable milestones have a very difficult time getting off that VC treadmill. Those who focus on creating value for customers and generating positive cash flow from the very beginning are able to make their own decisi...