What VCs and Angels Owe to Startups

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Quick Guide to Negotiating Term Sheets for Startups [Part 1] So, you have found someone (a VC) who wants to back you with the money you so desperately need. Just sign above the dotted line. Well, not so fast…You need to know how negotiating term sheets can help. . Read More Microsoft’s Office Mobile App for Android Now Available in India Microsoft which released Office Mobile for Android phones at the beginning of the month, has now announced the availability of the app in India and also 14 other countries in the APAC region. . Read More India is at the epicenter of Impact investing: Jayant Sinha, MD, Omidyar Network India “India is the epicenter of impact investing in the world,” said Jharkhand born Jayant Sinha, the Managing Director of Omidyar Network, who reckons that the state is one of the “worst places” in the world on some counts. Edited excerpts of an interview. . Read More A Look at Future Group’s Online Foray: Present Tense While Futurebazaar isn’t any close to what it set out to achieve, its traffic is dwindling. Futurebazaar’s traffic started dropping off sometime earlier this year. When there is a fire raging in the brick and mortar store, big retail has little time to spare for e-commerce. . Read More Gadget Prices Set To Go North As Rupee Continues Its Slide; EMIs & Freebies To Ease Pain Big players including Samsung, which has a 31.5% share of the Indian handset market and, Acer which had a 10.4% share of PC sales last quarter have confirmed that they have or will be raising prices in the coming days. . Read More What VCs and Angels Owe to Startups The practical truth is that founders often tend to NOT hedge their bets when it comes to raising money and given the stretched management bandwidth, most of the early stage startups talk to less than 2 serious angels at the same time. . Read More Sify Plans To Offer Net Telephony If Unified License Comes Through Under the Sify 3.0 plan, the company wants to offer different services including data centre solutions, cloud-based applications, system integration and telecom infrastructure. . Read More Noida Based Appy Pie Raises $10,000 on Kickstarter for DIY Mobile Game Builder Appy Pie’s cloud based platform started the Kickstarter campaign in August to develop a platform that lets users create games on the fly. . Read More Facebook Releases its First Transparency Report. Indian Stands at #2 Facebook shared 79% of requested data with U.S. government , while only 50% with Indian government. . Read More Team NextBigWhat.com Unsubscribe here