Posts Tagged ‘silicon valley’

By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, San Francisco, Technology

“I work in a bus company,” said the young software engineer when I asked him where he worked.
“What is a bus company?” I asked in a puzzled tone. I had never heard that term before.
Well, it turns out that in Bangalore if you work for any of the big IT companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS,  […]



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 10th, 2008 • Category: India, Life, Living In America

Gas prices are a good conversation starter here in the San Francisco Bay area. Every time I pull into a gas station I end up talking to a couple of people about the spiraling gas price. One lady said she paid almost $80 to fill up her SUV and that she has stopped using premium […]



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 […]