Presented some slides on building teams to a room-full of very keen and enthusiastic audience at the TiE Institute session last week at London Business School on “Leading High Performance Teams“.. I tremendously enjoyed Adam’s slides and his exercises…Will share my own slides on this post later…

Shared some slides at the India Investment Opportunities Forum in London yesterday.  India Investment Opportunities Jul 09 View more presentations from Shantanu Bhagwat. I also talked about some of my investments (Myntra, Innoviti and ElementsAkademia) in India. It was a good interactive session. I felt the mood is turning upbeat (although less so here in London and in the US). More [...]

Some notes from the “Emerging Markets” seminar on opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs (part of the IED Best Practice encounters series) at which I shared a panel with Prof. Gerry Geirge and Prof. Chris Toumazou: For the UK, India is now as important as China; Exports to China are £5.2bn vs £4.1bn for India There appears to be a [...]

Just back from an exhausting and intense 10-day visit to India, part of which was taken up by the Capvent VC/PE Conference in Goa. I shared a panel on “New Media” with Rajesh Sawhney of Reliance Entertainment and Harel Beit-On of Viola Private Equity…and talked briefly about Enqii and an Indian start-up that I am very enthused about [...]

Earlier this week, I chaired a panel discussion in London at Digital Business India. Some key points that emerged from the various discussions were: Huge opportunity emerging in digital media/ digital business (probably the fastest growing market globally) Specific sectors of interest include education, animation, production, advertising & branding services Doing business is not easy and challenges remain Very attractive opportunity [...]

At the second China VC & PE Eventin London last week, Ozaki-san of NIkko AntFactory presented some striking data about Japanese and Chinese demographics. I am trying to get hold of the slides and will upload them here. China is already Japan’s largest trading partner (both exports and imports) while for China, Japan was its [...]