By Pavan Krishnamurthy, Partner, Ojas Ventures
Writing a business plan is a time consuming and challenging effort and takes significant management bandwidth. Though there are a number of excellent resources/templates/articles on “how” to write a business plan, many times, people who are writing it for the first time get too involved in the “process” of writing [...]
By Pavan Krishnamurthy, Partner, Ojas Ventures
Many first time entrepreneurs may not fully understand how a venture capital fund works and consequently may not fully relate to how VC’s function. This post makes an attempt to provide a generic overview of how a VC fund functions and what it implies for entrepreneurs.
To start with, it would [...]
By Pavan Krishnamurthy, Partner, Ojas Ventures
Many first time entrepreneurs may not fully understand about the due diligence process followed by VC’s or what to expect during the diligence phase. This post makes an attempt to demystify the VC due diligence process and provide a list of typical questions for which VC’s would be seeking answers [...]
By Pavan Krishnamurthy, Partner, Ojas Ventures
In addition to generating financial returns for the investors, VC investments contribute significantly to the economic growth as well as creation of new industries. In fact many industries such as Information technology, biotech, medical devices, clean tech etc have been created through VC investments. This post makes an attempt highlight [...]
By Pavan Krishnamurthy, Partner, Ojas Ventures
Early stage venture valuation is often misunderstood and viewed with suspicion by many people. This post makes an attempt to provide an overview of early stage venture valuation process within a VC fund.
Early stage investments are often based on incomplete or inadequate information/data and as a result lot of qualitative [...]
Ojas is an India centric, technology focused early stage VC firm backed by one of the early captains of Indian IT industry, Mr. Nadathur S. Raghavan, cofounder and former MD of Infosys. The first fund is a US $35 Million fund. Our mission is to (in our own small way) energize the entrepreneurial ecosystem in [...]
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