“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 […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Venture Capital’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Venture Capital
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.
By Kamla Bhatt • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Business, Ideas, India, Venture Capital
Here is yet another opportunity for entrepreneurs, or those who are itching to start their company to participate in the TiE-ISB Connect 2008 being organized by TiE’s Hyderabad chapter and India Business School. The goal of TiE-ISB is to help connect wannabe entrepreneurs and early stage companies with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
The deadline for sending […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Business, Ideas, India, Technology, Venture Capital
If you are a wannabe entrepreneur or already have a gig that is in stealth mode, or you already have and have been working on it then here is your chance to participate and win prize money and also get access to venture capitalists and angels in India. The TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge is back. […]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
