Vivek Sinha

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11 November, 2013

Retracing Zomato's valuation as it rocketed over 88x in three years

Restaurant listing and review site Zomato has had a dream run for a new generation tech startup. For a consumer ......

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18 October, 2013

Sensex nears all-time high, snapshot of valuations then and now

S&P BSE Sensex, the 30-stock benchmark index, closed at 20,882.89 on Friday, just marginally short of 21,004, the highest ever ......

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13 September, 2013

Why the worst is over for Indian economy but why it's not time to uncork the bubbly

The rate at which the stock markets, and the Indian market in particular, gyrate to sentiments can give any belly ......

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03 September, 2013

Net bank credit growth in April-July defies investment slump; fresh credit breaks 8-year-old record

The net addition to outstanding bank credit in the first four months of the current fiscal year shot up, defying ......

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26 July, 2013

A silver lining for Series A funding in India

The Series A funding crunch is more than just the proverbial scarecrow for startups in India but if the early ......

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09 April, 2013

For a few dollars less

Had it been a spaghetti western flick by Sergio Leone, the protagonists would have merely shrugged their shoulders and went ......

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22 March, 2013

Expect no price war, but watch out for disruption in Indian skies

The old idiom goes that one can only lose money in aviation business. However, this has been proved wrong not ......

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29 January, 2013

Startups can opt to skip the conventional funding cycle, but should they?

The unwritten textbook version goes like this. Bootstrap and create some building block for your business; sell the idea to ......

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16 January, 2013

FDI conundrum and the game of matryoshka dolls in Indian e-commerce space

For the uninitiated, matryoshka dolls happen to be a Russian creation where multiple wooden figurines or dolls (usually non-identical) are ......

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07 January, 2013

Haves and have-nots for venture capital funding in India

Ask any venture capitalist what’s he/she looking in a potential investee and out springs a bundle of clichéd tick marks. ......