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Know Your Venture Capitals Before Considering Them – A Plausible Approach to Seek Funding from Venture Capitals

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  Typically, start-ups turn to venture capital firms when their business start to show signs of growth.  As opposed to angel investing, VCs can provide funding in higher amount which is desirable to start-ups during the expansion stage.  Because investing in start-ups is characterized with higher amount of risk for capital providers than an already established firm, VCs require higher returns for the higher risk assumed. The Right Fit Before approaching the VCs, one must have the Read more [...]
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Impact of Britain’s Exit or ‘Brexit’ From the European Union – What It Means for the World Economy

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Britain’s vote to quit the European Union (EU) after four decades as its member has been hailed as a historic decision in a few quarters.  However, the decision has multiple implications on the world economy as well.  The impact on Britain’s economy, the EU, and on the rest of the world is manifold and is cumbersome to determine.  In accordance to this, the term “Brexit” has emerged, which is an amalgam of two words “Britain” and “Exit”. What is European Union? The European Read more [...]
Market Research, Venture Capital

Venture Capital Activities in the First Quarter of FY16 – How did Venture Capital Market Shape up in Different Regions of the World?

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In the first quarter of 2016, the reported size of the deals stood at US$25.5 billion with investment across 1,829 deals. Macro-economic concerns across large markets, rising skepticism regarding the actual growth potential of the highly valued start-ups, and uncertainty regarding the public offering remained the major drivers of the reported decline in the venture capital activities around the world. The decline was primarily led by lower seed funding across the world. Some of the major developments Read more [...]
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Cannibalization of Personal Computers – The World is Witnessing a Major Paradigm Shift in the Personal Computing Segment

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Cannibalization is a natural phenomenon related to the advancement of technology in a particular segment, market, or industry.  It refers to the shifting sales from one product and in favor of another “newer” product from the same producer.  The continuous decline in sales of the traditional PCs and the continuous increase in the sales of latest touch devices, including tablets and smartphones is the newest trend that has been witnessed in the last few years, is referred as the “Cannibalization Read more [...]
General Analytics, Indian Economy

Company Valuation and Investors – What are the Different Types of Valuations and Approaches in Company Valuation?

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Valuation of a company is more of an art than a science.  No formula is fixed for business valuation of a company.  Valuation becomes very important in the eyes of the investors.  It is a basis on which an investor assumes that the venture will be capable of returning or not returning the amount invested on it. There exists a lot of confusion around the concept of valuation of a company and its actual value.  Generally, value of a company is its market cap (or) market capitalization and it Read more [...]
Market Research, Technology Research

Disruptive Innovation –How will Disruptive Innovation Shape the Future of Market? – New Technology Innovations that will Disrupt the Existing Market

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A lot of new companies, and a few existing players in the market have contributed toward disruptive innovation in the recent past.  Companies such as Amazon, Netflix, Uber, Airbnb have changed their business models or modified their competitor’s business models to establish new market for themselves.  Some of the transformation that resulted in market disruption due to change in business models is shown in the figure below: With all the above transformations, disruptive innovation has Read more [...]
Indian Economy

IT Hardware Retail Landscape in India – Major Retail Hardware Chains in India and Market Challenges.

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There are multiple micro and macroeconomic indicators which are supporting growth potential for India in the coming years.  These metrics are strong demographics, young working population, rising income levels, rapid urbanization, growing brand orientation and many more. India’s retail industry has emerged as one of the fastest growing industry and is projected to grow almost to US$1 trillion by 2020 from the market size of US$ 600 billion in 2015, driven by income growth, urbanization and Read more [...]
Market Research, Venture Capital

Global Venture Capital Investments Touching New Heights in 2015 with $128.5 B Worth VC Backed-up Ventures – Trends and Major Industry Ventures

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Venture Capitals are showing great interest to invest on startups and established businesses around the globe.  Worldwide, venture capitals had invested US$128.5 billion in 2015. The figure comparison of venture investments for the years 2014 and 2015 clearly shows that the investment scenario is booming.  We can see that there was 44% increase in the investments made from VCs, and VCs have raised US$89 billion in 2014, which was further increased to US$128 billion in 2015.  The annual Read more [...]
Technology Research

A Facial Personality Profiling Technology – Future of Fighting Terrorism

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Face profiling technology is a new concept which will have applications in multiple industries.  This technology can even be used to identify terrorists, pedophile and poker players, among other types of people by analyzing their facial traits.  It can analyze faces from video streams (recorded and live), cameras, or online/offline databases and match an individual with various personality traits. Faces are tagged under different personality profiles, and each is known as a classifier.  The Read more [...]
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The New Era of Disruptive Innovation – Impacts of Disruptive Innovation and the Ways of Disrupting the Market

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Disruptive innovation, or the Darwin Theory of technology and business models, has changed the way of living in the past two decades.  Disruptive Innovation, as the name suggests, is an innovation of technology or a business model, which disrupts the market of the existing technology to evolve to a new one.  This term came into existence in 1997, when a Harvard professor and a well-known businessman, Clayton Christensen, penned it in his book, The Innovator’s Dilemma.  Since then, it has been Read more [...]
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