Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Entrepreneur Interviews’

By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Interviews, Technology, Web 2.0

What caught my eye on my Gmail chat window was this message: “Hiring: $1500 Referral Fee.” I had not seen that kind of message in a long time. Why, it reminded me of the mid 1990s when companies could not find the right people and it was not uncommon for companies to offer a referral […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Technology, Web 2.0

 Thanks for your continuing support and encouragement without which we would not be able to move forward. We are doing  a 12-part online radio series with Mint for their LiveMint Radio Show that is launching next week. The series is titled “Tune In To The Future.” The first 3 guests on the show are Yogen […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital

TeliBrahma headed by Suresh Narasimha received $2 million as its Series A funding.  Inventus Capital Partners, a VC firm headed by Kanwal Rekhi invested $1 million and with this investment Kanwal and his team make their first investment in India.  I have an interview with Kanwal, where he talks about his new company Inventus and […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Start-ups, Technology

Just a couple of months I did a Q&A with Deepak Shenoy of Moneyoga and their online business model for their financial startup. Deepak was quite gung-ho about his startup and was looking to raise money. But, within a few weeks of publishing the interview I got a note from Deepak that they had to […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Life, Mobile, People, Start-ups

We have a nice mix of interviews that spans life, people and ideas. Murli Wanchoo is a retired Indian government official, who lives in Silicon Valley and he looks back at India in the early days. Then we have Anusuya Devi (88), who is known as  the “Queen of Folk Music” of Andhra Pradesh. Age […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, San Francisco, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos

Meet  15-year old Silicon Valley-based Daniel Brusilovsky. He wears many hats. He is an entrepreneur, blogger, vblogger and podcaster. His show is called the Apple Universe. He also works part-time at Qik, the real-time video streaming startup.
Daniel recently launched his  startup TeensinTech and is in talks with lawyers and VCs and is very savvy about […]