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

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.



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 […]