Oct 7, 2016 - Venture capital in 2016: Much more to cheer than despair

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Sree Vijaykumar From the Editor's Desk The best CEOs focus primarily on four things: communication, communication, communication, and overseeing resource allocation to ensure that the priorities they're communicating are actually the ones getting funded. Based on HBR research and decades of experience working with CEOs, here are six tips for CEOs who want to get the boring-and most important-stuff done: 1. Liberate yourself from your own staff 2. Disentangle yourself from the byzantine bickering of the professional managerial class 3. Laminate your "strategy on a page" and find joy in talking about it for the thousandth time 4. Celebrate the doers 5. Be the question guy, not the answer guy 6. Ignore the conventional wisdom of coaches. Read the full article here Advertisers of the day Transjovan Capital (Board Advisory): : Where will your Company be in the next 5 years? Gartner: View complimentary research reports   Our advertisers help fund the daily operations of TradeBriefs. We request you to accept our promotional emails (B2B Decision-Makers, B2C Decision-Makers, TradeBriefs Premium). Venture capital in 2016: Much more to cheer than despair The measured pace of investments in start-ups we have seen so far in 2016 may not be such as bad thing for the long term Advt: Work for the best employer - Yourself Advantages - Best B2B audience in India, no hard-selling or up-front costs involved, access to our content repository and air-tight agreements with instant gratification. Apply now   The Real Deal with Email and What TradeBriefs does right So, here’s the real deal with email. Yes, we all get too much email, but for those of us who check it, we do so over 15 times a day.   Game Theory in Indian e-commerce. Really? Only a year ago, Kunal Bahl boasted that Snapdeal will overtake Flipkart in sales. It has since slipped against its two main rivals. What went wrong? IDBI Bank has shareholder nod to raise Rs 8,000 crore; centre says lender free to choose funding route IDBI Bank already has shareholder approval to raise Rs 8,000 crore of capital, Managing Director Kishor Kharat told ET. World sees India as bright spot, experts expect more sunshine WEF’s India Economic Summit on 6-7 October will address key issues of national and regional importance, with a special focus on digital transformation RBI plans rework of bank branch norms Central bank seeks to widen definition of a branch to make it easier for banks to meet the norm of opening 25% banking outlets in unbanked rural centres IVFA-backed Inlogistics to raise Rs200 crore The latest round of fund-raising will help the company to increase its network by adding more cargo rakes to its inventory Stabilizing the banking sector a bigger challenge, says Rajiv Biswas The Asia-Pacific chief economist at IHS Economics and Country Risk Group says banks, weighed down by Rs6.3 trillion of bad loans, will be constrained in extending credit to key sectors of the economy State Bank of India may sell up to 5% in SBI Life The stake sale to private equity investors will help SBI set an indicative price for the eventual initial public offering (IPO) India looking for increased capital support from World Bank: Arun Jaitley Later in the evening, Jaitley interacted with several US State Department officials during the reception hosted in his honour. RBI releases operating guidelines for Payments and Small Finance Banks RBI said that if the KYC done by payments banks promoted by telecom companies is of the same quality as prescribed for a banking company, bank account can be opened without any document. HDFC Ltd to raise Rs1,500 crore via bonds to augment capital The proceeds of the present issue would be utilised for financing/refinancing the housing finance business requirements of HDFC Ltd How to deal with ATM card frauds Know what precautions you can take to keep your debit card safe from scamsters How EPFO’s equity hike will impact you The provident fund body plans to double its equity exposure; subscribers would have to wait for at least 5 years to see how this will affect their EPF savings Sebi finds Yes Bank violated rules in $1 billion QIP, stock ends flat A report had earlier suggested that Sebi has found evidence of the company misrepresentating facts and failing to make adequate disclosure, before it proceeded with the QIP. Expect Cairn-Vedanta merger by this fiscal-end: Anil Agarwal The merger is now subject to the approval of the jurisdictional High Courts as well as other regulatory approvals. India-Sri Lanka economic pact by 2016-end, says Ranil Wickremesinghe Sri Lanka expects the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement - the ETCA - with India to be signed by the end of 2016, and the deal is likely to be a game changer in the economic ties between the two countries, Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe said today. NSE gets board nod to launch IPO via OFS, clears bonus shares NSE will file draft IPO papers with Sebi for the domestic public issue by January 2017 Everstone, Sunrise BPO to buy CRM solutions provider C3 for $150 million Everstone Group, along with Sunrise BPO, has signed a definitive agreement to buy US-based C3 (CustomerContactChannels), a global CRM solutions provider. While the company did not disclose the value, industry sources estimated the deal value is India can save Rs 70000 crore by reducing cash transactions: Visa Study shows that in the area of digital payments India lags behind Brazil, China, and Russia because of its limited progress on financial inclusion.​ Indian banks vulnerable to profit decline amid rising bad loans: IMF IMF called for swift and transparent recognition of non-performing assets to ensure good health of banking system. Ease of doing business is key to India clocking 8% growth: Nirmala Sitharaman There is a greater need to work more closely with states to remove regulatory hurdles facing businesses, says commerce and industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman at WEF summit E-commerce sales to touch Rs 11000-13000 cr in Oct: RedSeer Business Today Similarly, on Tuesday, Flipkart said it had crossed a "historic first" for an e-commerce company in India, crossing Rs 1,400 crore sales on its platform in a single day. Industry experts are of the view that these companies may announce more such ...articles  Beauty products e-tailer Nykaa expects fourfold increase in GMV at Rs 350 crore this year Till date, the four-year old company has raised over Rs 160 cr in three rounds of funding SoftBank Might Invest in Freecharge SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational telecommunications and Internet corporation. It has operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, Intex enters into e-commerce segment with WishnBuy The new marketplace is offering a nine-day festive offers from October 1 to October 9, with discounts up to 70 per cent. Singapore listed company plans to open two more malls in India Hindustan Times Two properties are in the major technology cities of Hyderabad and Bengaluru and a third serviced residence is in Sri City, less than an hour's drive from Chennai. The announcement was made at The Celebration ... malls at strategic locations in India ...sp; Facebook may bring zero-rated “Free Basics” app to smartphones in US Facebook program offers free access to Internet (but only certain websites). India's biggest ever sale of mobile airwaves wraps up in five days with a muted response leaving 60% of airwaves unsold The biggest ever spectrum auction has come to an end with govt receiving bids worth Rs 65,789 crore over the last five days, a mere 40 per India's spectrum auction ends in virtual failure, raises 11.6% of target (Roundup) India's telecom spectrum auction -- touted as the largest, given the quantum of airwaves on the block -- ended in a virtual failure, closing within five days with a total commitment of only Rs 65,789 ($9.8 billion) crore, or about 11.6 per cent of SPECTRUM AUCTION 2016: Vodafone seen having bought pan-India 4G spectrum in final results Though Vodafone has not revealed its purchases yet, the pattern of announcements so far indicates that the company has purchased 4G spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band across India. The reason for this conclusion is that Bharti Airtel has been successful in buying 10 MHz (half of all) 2.3 GHz spectrum in most circles. 2.3 … Maharashtra call centre scam: All you need to know According to the investigating team, the victims in the US were threatened with a “tax investigation” by Mira Road call centre executives impersonating as American Internal Revenue Services (IRS) officials. Vivo mulling second manufacturing unit in India | ET Telecom Buoyed by significant growth in demand, Chinese handset vendor Vivo is "studying" the prospects of setting up its second manufacturing plant in India. Google Daydream View first impressions: Mobile VR gets serious Google Daydream View is one of the few VR headsets which didn’t give me a headache. Here is our first impressions of first Daydream based VR headset China begins 5G telecom trial runs to get head start: Report China begins 5G telecom trial runs to get head start: Report - 5G network can achieve theoritical speeds of up to 20 gigabits per second, much faster than the current 4G speeds of 1 Gbps. E-commerce portal GoZefo raises $1 mn funding led by Helion Venture Partners Flipkart sells 15.5 million units, claims top spot Consumers have gone all-out to avail of the scorching pace of discount offers on various products , helping the online retail entities log record sales. Amazon India sold over 15 million units in Great Indian Festival Sale E-commerce firm Amazon which concluded its festive season sale - 'Great Indian Festival' on Wednesday said it sold 15 million units during the sale without disclosing the value of the goods sold. Subscriptions may soon drive consumer market Startups like The Moja Club, Bombay Shaving Company, Raw Pressery, LetsShave and Ustraa have been selling daily use items directly to subscribers. Intex Technologies to launch its own ecommerce marketplace called Wishnbuy.com Intex Technologies became the latest company to launch its own ecommerce marketplace called Wishnbuy.com TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 10,00,000 Industry Executives India Business Brief | India Retail News | India Food Brief | India Telecom Brief | India Finance Brief | India Software Brief | India Digital Brief | India Ecommerce Brief | India Franchise Brief | India HR Brief | India Logistics Brief | India Construction Brief About Us  |  Advertise Privacy Policy    Unsubscribe You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs. Our mailing address is GF 25/39, West Patel Nagar, New Delhi 110008, India