All I heard on the first day of TiECon was about Elon Musk and his Tesla roadster.
Musk was the keynote speaker on the second day and the highlight was that he was going to drive his Tesla (he owns the first Tesla that rolled out of their production line) into the auditorium just before his [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, Planes and Automobiles, Start-ups, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, Ideas, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Planes and Automobiles, San Francisco, Social Media, Technology
This year’s TiECon was a bit low-keyed and somber and was in ways a reflection of the economic situation in the USA. There were about 2,500 that attended the conference. However on the second day it seemed like there were fewer people, when compared to the first day.
The two opening keynote speakers on both days [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, Technology, Venture Capital
TiECon 2008 starts in a few minutes and the first keynote speaker is Peter Thiel, founder and president of Clarium Capital Management. Prior to this Thiel was c0-founder of PayPal that was acquired by eBay. Thiel was an early investor in Facebook, the red hot social networking company.
By Kamla Bhatt • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Events, Ideas, Technology
The annual TiE jamboree begins this weekend at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This year’s theme is Entrepreneurship Unbounded and there is an interesting mix of speakers and panelists that straddles technology, pharma and new media. Guests include Peter Theil, Elon Musk, Chairman of Tesla Motors, Bill Campbell of Intuit, Naresh Goyal of Jet [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0
I will be twittering about “The Mobile Future Conference,” organized by Carnegie Mellon University in Santa Clara, California. As the organizers described it, ” The Mobile Future brings together experts from industry and the research community to share and discuss their visions of the mobile future…” You can check out the program details of [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Events, Life, Video, YouTube Videos
Meet Taara Rangarajan, 23-year old Indian-American from Silicon Valley, who is actively involved in the US elections 2008 campaign. Taara works for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.Taara is running for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) election for the 14th District in California. She hopes to get elected and participate in the DNC in Colorado in August 2008, [...]