Author: G. Sabarinathan

1G.Sabarinathan teaches at IIMB. In his lucky years, he gets enough student enrolments for him to teach his favourite elective, New Enterprise Financing. In luckier years, he even gets a teaching rating that he does not have to feel embarrassed about. In less lucky years, he spends his time writing blog posts.

The Global Ranking of Startup Funding Ecosystems

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by G.Sabarinathan, PhD1 So, for all the excitement about being India’s Silicon Valley and so on, Bangalore seems to be ranked 33rd among startup cities in the world.  That is what I noticed from PitchBook’s (PB) survey of October 2023.2 The scoring methodology PB’s list identifies the top fifty cities in terms of Venture Capital (VC) financing activity.  And its survey ranks cities on two different top level dimensions, namely development and growth.  Development itself is measured in terms of size and maturity.  Size comprises value and number of deals…

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Entrepreneurship Diary from IIMB Chapter 1: Ploughing a lonely furrow

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G.Sabarinathan, PhD1, recalls the story of Asvini Kumar, an alumnus of PGP’81, from a time when there was no template for growing the kind of services business that his venture, Thinksoft, was, and believes entrepreneurship seems to have been always ingrained in the alumni and students of IIMB. On June 23rd, I wrote a brief post acknowledging a few unicorns that I knew of that have an IIMB connection.  Here is that post in case you are curious as to what I wrote.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabarinathan-g-7541a9175/recent-activity/shares/ My post on Open set me…

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