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CK-12’s Murugan Pal on Entrepreneurship

By kamla bhatt • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, VC & Private Equity Funding
 
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CK-12’s co-founder Murugan Pal talks about entrepreneurship, Web 3.0, semantic search, and how he discovered computer engineering in Part-2 of our conversation.
Murugan was an Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Foundation Capital. But, what does an EIR do? How does one become an EIR? These are some of the questions that [...]



Diaz Nesamoney of Jivox, Video Ad Network

By kamla bhatt • Aug 7th, 2008 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
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The online world is undergoing a huge change with video and audio downloads growing at a fast clip. Video is the biggest growth area in the online world. So, it is any surprise that online video ads are projected to be over $2 billion by 2010 by eMarketer. Unsurprisingly, there are a fair amount of [...]



Murugan Pal of CK-12

By kamla bhatt • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Video
 
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CK-12 is a Silicon Valley non-profit organization co-founded by Murugan Pal and Neeru Khosla.
Take Wikipedia, iTunes, Netflix, MySpace and club it all together and target it to textbook manufacturing system and that is CK-12 for you.
CK-12 helps students and teacher create customized content in the form of flexbooks for free. This is a collaborative [...]



An Expats POV: Hiring And Working In India

By kamla bhatt • Aug 3rd, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
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Lin Chase of Accenture spent 2 years in India as the first head of Accenture’s R&D lab. In Part-2 of the interview Lin discusses and shares her experience of working in India. Her advice for working in India is this: India always wins and you cannot win India.
What are the cultural underpinnings and context [...]