Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Smart iDeAS, India Innovation PE Fund & Fin Models

Smart Ideas:
There are 2 new things happening at SMART Ideas, 2 very exciting things actually.

SMART Ideas is bridging the gap between a PE fund and some truly deserving companies who need the right financial support to leapfrog to the next level.
SMART Ideas is also collaborating with a Finance WizKid and budding entrepreneur Anand Kumar, who will give training on various Financial Modeling and teach all finance & non-finance professional on how to effectively use spreadsheet to build plans and interpret a Fin Model.

Investment @ SMART Ideas
We at SMART Ideas would like to hear from entrepreneurs who have successful business models and would like to replicate the model beyond known territories. SMART Ideas represents a newly launched Indian Innovation (technical & nontechnical) PE fund which is looking for investing with such innovative companies with replicable models.
Please send details to me at thesmartideas@gmail.com


Financial Modeling & Training
Is financial modeling a dreadful word for you? Are you thinking of letting go the greatest offer in your life because you are scared of financial modeling? Or, are you among those who never thought a trainee’s job at the multinational bank will be to play with numbers on an excel spread-sheet? Or, may be you are that young executive at a retail or fmcg or IT or Real estate company, who is lagging behind in career only because you don’t understand those numbers?
Trust me they are not as difficult as they look. You only have to learn what to look for and how.
There are many big companies across the globe who spend a fortune getting financial modeling experts teaching their people some funda or too; but the bad news is that there is no such experts available in India. The nearest you can get one is in Singapore.

But the good news is that Anand Kumar, a Finance expert with several years of experience with some of the finest finance companies in the world and a good friend of mine, has come forward to help and train any and every body to make them finance savvy. Initially he is going to operate from 3 different locations – Gurgaon, Mumbai & Bangalore. And he has chosen the platform at SMART Ideas to get the ball rolling.

See this space for some more info on this.

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