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Arun Natarajan, Founder of Venture Intelligence, on entrepreneurship, private equity and venture capital in India

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While Private Equity and Venture Capital gets more than adequate
coverage in the general business and entrepreneur-targeted media,
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there has been a surprising lack of "how to” manuals for
entrepreneurs who are serious about raising this type of capital. For Quick Book Review: Finally, an
instance, while entrepreneurs might have heard of terms like “term How To on Raising V...
sheets”, “due diligence”, etc., it is not very easy to research online
Private Equity in Infrastructure:
on what exactly is these involve in the Indian context. (Most of the What's Needed?
material available is typically US-centric).
Can Premji and Narayanamurthy
alter the Indian VC ...
Which is why New Delhi based consultant and entrepreneur Pankaj
Sahai's “Smooth Ride to Venture Capital – How to get VC Funding Rise of video ads
for Your Business” stands out. Published by Vision Books; and prices How cleantech cos can borrow
at Rs. 495/, the book is also well laid out on good quality paper. funding models from b...
Deal Alert: Fidelity invests in
Key sections in the book that entrepreneurs can benefit from
Punj Lloyd's Engg ...
significantly (typically stuff the popular press/online sources don't
cover): Deal Alert: Nexus Ventures
participates in Cloud....
Chapter 15: Understanding Ownership, Dilution and Rounds of "The Brain of an Indian VC"
Financing
VC Interview: Venetia
Kontogouris of Trident Capit...
Which covers the implications (both mathematical and legal) of
raising external equity capital. Interview with Mintoo Bhandari

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of Apollo
Chapter 22: Negotiating the Term Sheet
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Covers the list of key terms and delves into the specifics. For May 2003
example, the pros and cons of using a “full ratchet” vs. a “weighted
average ratchet” formula for the anti-dilution provision. This chapter June 2003
also explains lucidly the security/instrument used to structure PE/VC July 2003
deals in India, typically the Optionally Convertible Cumulative August 2003
Preference Shares (India).
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Chapter 23: Managing the Due Diligence and Chapter 24: Closing October 2003
the Deal November 2003

These chapters covers what exactly the Due Diligence process December 2003
involves and the legal agreements that are entered into once the DD January 2004
provides the green signal – only after which, the entrepreneur gets to February 2004
the end goal: money. Whew!
March 2004
Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence, the April 2004
leading provider of data and analysis on private equity, venture May 2004
capital and M&A deals in India. View free samples of Venture
Intelligence newsletters and reports. Email the author at June 2004
arun@ventureintelligence.in July 2004
Labels: Venture Capital Book August 2004

posted by Arun @ Thursday, May 27, 2010 September 2004

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MAY 25, 2010 November 2004

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Private Equity in Infrastructure: What's Needed? January 2005

February 2005
Sanjay Sethi, ED & Head of Infrastructure Group, Kotak Investment March 2005
Banking has an article in the Economic Times on the current
April 2005
challenges in raising PE funding for infrastructure projects and what's
needed to boost such transactions. May 2005
June 2005
July 2005
What India needs: India could well do with more pure-play
specialist infrastructure funds with long-term investment August 2005
horizon and reasonable return expectations (in the midto-late September 2005
teens).This may attract infrastructure developers who would
October 2005
otherwise consider listing themselves,most of them somewhat
prematurely,and raise capital even at the cost of higher November 2005
dilution. December 2005
January 2006
SPV-level investors in greenfield projects: Most PE as well as
infrastructure funds are currently focused on entity-level deals February 2006
with a mix of operational,under implementation and under March 2006
development projects with clear visibility of an IPO in the next
April 2006
3-4 years which provides them an exit opportunity.While a
couple of SPV-level investors are currently operating in the May 2006
country,there is room for more such players.Internationally June 2006

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