Last week BlogHer, a community of women bloggers, made two major announcements. It received $5 million in funding from Peacock Equity and Venrock, a returning investor. Peacock Equity was co-founded in 2007 by GE Commercial Finance’s Media Communications and Entertainment business and NBC Universal.
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘San Francisco’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, San Francisco, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital, Video, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 19th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, Internet and Telecom India, Interviews, San Francisco, Technology
Here is a quick note about BlogHer 2008 interviews that I will post in the next couple of days. I have two video interviews: the first is with Lisa Stone, CEO and co-founder of BlogHer and the second one is a short highlight on what is Open Source by Michelle Baker, CEO of Mozilla Foundation. This video […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Business, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Interviews, Life, People, Podcast, San Francisco, Technology
This week we will be celebrating women achievers to coincide with the BlogHer conference in San Francisco. Here is a lineup of 3 women achievers we will feature in the show this week.
Roma Kapoor works with United Way, a philanthropic organization that is over 100 years old. Roma is based in Washington DC and […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Ideas, Interviews, Podcast, San Francisco, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital, Video, YouTube Videos
Here is a fun video interview with Kittu Kolluri, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a venture capital firm. Kittu was game to do the interview when I met him at this year’s TiECon in Santa Clara. He talks about TiE and the Entrepreneur’s Bazaar, and about entrepreneurship.
Kittu sits on the board […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, India, Life, Living In America, San Francisco
Kartar Dhillon passed away earlier this month in Berkeley, California and she “Ain’t No Old Lady,” as Ranbir Sidhu writes. She was 93 years old.
Kartar or Kar as she was called was an activist and a writer, who was a fount of information about the early Punjabi settlers in California. She was somebody I wanted […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Life, Living In America, San Francisco, Social Media, Video, YouTube Videos
It is hard to believe that my two weeks of break just flew by so quickly. I learned quite a bit during my break and discovered the power of meeting and reconnecting with old and new friends. I finally found time to meet many old friends, make new friends and also discovered that the […]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
