Venture capital firms follow a process of raising funds, investing in companies, managing investments, and ultimately exiting investments. They evaluate potential investments based on the founding team, market opportunity, product, and timing. Due diligence involves assessing management, market, customers, competition, and financial projections. Common technology trends VCs follow include the transition to online/cloud services and the use of data, smartphones, clean energy, healthcare automation, and cybersecurity. Building a company involves identifying a team, creating a product/business model, seed funding, releasing version 1, scaling sales and hiring, and potentially raising a Series B round.
1) A young doctor from Mysore fell in love with a nurse from a different community, language, and religion while working in Kerala.
2) His parents, who took loans to fund his medical education, are unhappy with his decision to marry the nurse against their wishes.
3) The nurse's politically active father has agreed to the marriage but wants it done without religious ceremonies to avoid backlash from his community.
1. The document discusses big data and the need to generate actionable insights from large amounts of data. It notes big data can help solve important problems in healthcare, transportation, energy and other industries.
2. Current methods for working with big data are not scalable and take too long to produce insights. More focus is needed on generating insights faster through applications that better leverage data scientists and domain experts.
3. Trident Capital has invested in big data solutions that produce quicker, higher-value insights for specific industries like healthcare, transportation, and energy. These more targeted industry applications provide a faster path to return on investment.
