Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Start-ups’

By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Global Voices, Ideas, Start-ups, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Amra Tareen heads Allvoices, a San Francisco-based citizen media startup. After months of being their beta version, AllVoices released its brand new website a few days ago. Allvoices raised $4.5 million in venture capital funding last year.
Prior to founding Allvoices, Amra was with Sevin Rosen, a venture capital firm and before that she worked […]



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 20th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Venture Capital, Video

It has been almost a month since I wrote my last TechLife column in Financial Express, but I am back this week. In this week’s column I take a look at the complex world of video ad networks, which appears to be a global trend and Indian investors have also jumped into the bandwagon.  Just this month […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Start-ups, Technology, YouTube Videos

Rajiv Poddar is a Bangalore-based entrepreneur, who is bootstrapping his second startup. His first startup Sedna Wireless is in the process of being wrapped up was probably the first Indian startup focused on delivering a VOIP-based phone. But, After 2 years of working on Sedna Wireless Rajiv made the difficult and tough decision to take […]



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 8th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Social Media, Start-ups, Web 2.0

MessageDance is a Silicon Valley-bases startup. In this interview co-founder Brij Singh shares his thoughts about his startup and entrepreneurship. This is the third time Brij has been involved with a startup and to say that he is more is aware of the roller coaster ride of doing a startup would be an understatement.
You […]