In early March there was a lot of buzz around Cisco’s press release about how it plans to “forever change the Internet.” What was this big technology announcement that Cisco was going to make? Could it be a new set-top box? Could it be Cisco would take a leadership role in the last mile access [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Business, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Americas, Business, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, San Francisco, Technology, Venture Capital
A few of the magical ingredients of what makes Silicon Valley unique is the easy access to mentors and investors. I turned to Yogen Dalal an engineer-turned entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist to find out the answers to many unanswered questions. Yogen came to Silicon Valley in the early 1970s to study at Stanford University. He is the Managing [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
That is a demo of Cisco’s TelePresence, which provides an incredible “true-to-life” experience. Sitting around the table at this virtual meeting were people from different parts of the world. There was no lag and the quality of audio and video was superb. Using Cisco’s TelePresence is a delightful customer experience.
Currently Cisco’s TelePresence is deployed in 50 countries. [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Business, Ideas, Start-ups, Technology, User Generated Content
Silicon Valley’s Churchill Club held a sold out event last evening. About 400 people attended a packed event to listen to a conversation between Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix and Michael Eisner, CEO of Tonante that creates original content and incubates startups. Before this Eisner was the former CEO of Walt Disney, who turned around the company and [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Living In America, San Francisco, Technology, Video
Steve Jobs clearly recognizes the power of storytelling.
A consummate marketer Jobs known the art of storytelling, and this Stanford Commencement address is a great example. “I have 3 stories to share,” he says in his introduction. The 3 stories seem to map to birth, life/love and death. The cycle of life. Jobs apparently subscribes to Buddhist [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, San Francisco, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
Over the long Thanksgiving weekend San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom made his first maiden trip to Bangalore, India. Interestingly, for over 100 years San Francisco has been an entry point for Indians, many of whom came from the region of Punjab and were often referred to as Hindus in the early 20th century. Reportedly, the [...]