Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Start-ups’

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 [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, Ideas, India, Life, People, Podcast, San Francisco, Start-ups, Technology, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos

Here is the line-up for this week’s interview.
A 2-part interview with Murugan Pal of CK-12, a non-profit organization in the education field. CK-12 is co-founded by Neeru Khosla and Murugan and they are working on providing innovative technical solution for  high-school students and teachers. Murugan has an interesting background. Prior to working with CK-12 he [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Interviews, Podcast, San Francisco, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos

The interview lineup for this week includes Hakia, RedBook and Accenture and all three guests happen to be accomplished women in their field.



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 27th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, San Francisco, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology

I am hooked on FriendFeed and love reading what others have bookmarked and love the ability to post a comment or click the like button.  FriendFeed is  a wonderful place to discover all kinds of new stuff, and in a way witness how news proliferates in a viral fashion. I find that I have scaled [...]