No product, no pitch, just buzzwords: Indian-origin UC Berkeley grad claims he tricked VCs with fake startup idea – Times of India

No product, no pitch, just buzzwords: Indian-origin UC Berkeley grad claims he tricked VCs with fake startup idea – Times of India

NEW DELHI: An Indian-origin UC Berkeley graduate has sparked a debate about the startup funding ecosystem after claiming he received responses from 27 venture capitalists—four of whom asked for a meeting—by posing as a fake founder with no real product or pitch, but with the right mix of elite buzzwords.Bhavye Khetan, who earned a bachelor’s…

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SC ends logjam: TN gets power to appoint, sack VCs | India News – The Times of India

SC ends logjam: TN gets power to appoint, sack VCs | India News – The Times of India

CHENNAI: Long-term constitutional consequences apart, the immediate impact of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the governor’s duties and powers will be the end of stalemate over appointment of vice-chancellors to nine of Tamil Nadu’s 22 state universities. Many of these universities have remained headless for more than two years as Raj Bhavan had been…

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