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The Year Of The VC.

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(From Business Today (India))

Byline: R. Sridharan & Priya Srinivasan additional reporting by Alokesh Bhattacharyya and E. Kumar Sharma

A booming stockmarket is not usually the best of times for venture capital investors. While it makes exits relatively easy, it makes investing incredibly hard. Valuations zoom, "promoters get greedy" (in the words of one VC) and the chances of ending up with a lame duck investment increase exponentially. Yet, come February or March, a gaggle of 20-odd VCs will board a flight from the US and put themselves through a near 24-hour journey, albeit in first or business class, to get a first-hand experience of what's turning ...

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