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Re: Google tiptoes into venture capital

Bakul Parekh — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:00:20 -0000

Interested in funds for real estate developments in and around India,good opportunity and properties for devlopment

Re: Google tiptoes into venture capital

edward — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:46:42 -0000

Investing in India is cheap but also has lot of problems.

Re: Google tiptoes into venture capital

Kris Nair — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:05:34 -0000

Seed funds and VC firms are pretty new in india and start-ups were rising money in treditional way of fund rising. Hope this move will contribute some more action to the innovation front in the region.

PR? Well - What we got here is failure to communicate :-)
Indian VC investments are the 'in-thing' or 'trend' in vc now!

Re: Google tiptoes into venture capital

Jeff N — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:42:10 -0000

I'm not so terribly sure about positive PR points from US sources when it comes to spending money overseas instead of in the Google's own back yard.

Re: Google tiptoes into venture capital

Erick — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:43:50 -0000

India carries more PR brownie points, I suppose. Midwest is not sexy enough.

Re: Google tiptoes into venture capital

Alex Grogan — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:41:01 -0000

Perhaps Matt, I guess my point was more along the lines of my first sentence.

Re: Google tiptoes into venture capital

Matt Marshall — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:39:22 -0000

You think? Not likely, with such small dollar amounts. Unless they've created some special tax-evading vehicle to do this. But haven't seen any evidence of that.

Re: Google tiptoes into venture capital

Alex Grogan — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:30:44 -0000

Fledgling companies in the MidWest, USA have too few avenues for financial support.

Let's keep it real, it means less taxes to pay.