Posts Tagged ‘innovation’

By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 12th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Technology, Venture Capital

Earlier today I spent a couple of hours talking to Yogen Dalal, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund. Yes, I was there to interview him,  and he was such a gracious host and spent an extra hour talking on a whole range of topics not directly related to the interview. Yogen is a fascinating conversationalist and I […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Technology, Video

How is innovation different today? Are there a new set of dynamics at work? Are the days of mass production over? Is the new trend in innovation more about personalization?  Have we entered a new age of innovation that is very different from the 19th and 20th century industrial mindset that treated
consumers as an undifferentiated […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology

India has the fastest growing mobile subscriber base in the world and is now ranked 2nd right after China. In order to grow its mobile consumer base Indian and Chinese telecom operators have recognized there is a need to reach out to the rural areas and provide viable, sustainable and efficient telecom infrastructure before they […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Electronic gadgets, Ideas, India, San Francisco, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos

Earlier today, well actually yesterday since  I just noticed it is pushing 2 PM. Anyway earlier today I was at Microsoft’s Office in Mountain View. This is the first time I visited their campus here and did not realize how big it is. I was there to meet and interview Paul Murphy, Director of Innovation […]


By Kamla Bhatt • May 11th, 2008 • Category: Books and Authors, Business, Diaspora, Ideas, India, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology

In this week’s Techlife column in Financial Express the focus was on Research and Development and how that fules innovation. The original title was “What is fuelling innovation and entrepreneurship.”
Here is the article:
There appears to be an upward worldwide trend when you look at innovation and entrepreneurship. Fuelling this trend is good old […]