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 [...]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Venture Capital’
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
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 • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Venture Capital
“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 [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 1st, 2008 • Category: Business, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital
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 [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Business, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Venture Capital
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 [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, Technology, Venture Capital
TiECon 2008 starts in a few minutes and the first keynote speaker is Peter Thiel, founder and president of Clarium Capital Management. Prior to this Thiel was c0-founder of PayPal that was acquired by eBay. Thiel was an early investor in Facebook, the red hot social networking company.