“Is Silicon Valley really all that different?”” wondered an American entrepreneur recently. His question caught me by surprise considering he was born and brought up right here in the San Francisco bay area. What was surprising is he thought the ecosystem and the ability to do startups, raise money, succeed or fail were available in […]

A couple of weeks ago I had my first article published in Times of India and Economic Times. I did not know this, but recently discovered that Times of India is the largest circulated English newspaper in the world. Earlier today the parent company of the newspapers announced they had bought UK’s Virgin Radio […]

Local search is the new battle ground for startups and VCs in India. “But, local search is an oxymoron,” says Deepak Srinivasan, Internet marketing guru. “There is no such user experience called local search. It is a local directory business,” he adds. “Local search is often used as a proxy for local points […]

In this week’s column in Financial Express the topic is about cleantech and the connection between Silicon Valley and India. Last week during the TiECon in Silicon Valley  cleantech was a major topic of discussion and I met a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur who are doing some very interesting things in this space. Ravi […]

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 […]

Dr. Girish Saraph is an academician turned entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Vegayan Systems. Two years ago Vegayan was one of the winners of the first TiE-Canaan business plan, which is when I first met Girish. Vegayan is a funded startup based in Mumbai.
In this interview Garish shares his experience on what it […]