Archives for the ‘Ideas’ Category

LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman: Part-2

By kamla bhatt • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Video
 
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Silicon Valley-based LinkedIn’s co-founder and chairperson Reid Hoffman is a well-known entrepreneur and angel investor.
In Part-2 of the interview Reid talks about his journey as an entrepreneur. After he graduated from Stanford, he went to Oxford from where he received his Master’s and came back to Silicon Valley to start a [...]



LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman Part-1

By kamla bhatt • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Video
 
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Silicon Valley-based LinkedIn’s co-founder and chairperson Reid Hoffman is a well-known entrepreneur and angel investor.
In this 2-part interview Reid talks about his entrepreneurial journey, how he started LinkedIn, his plans to expand in India where mobile phones are the devices of choice to network and not computers and what technology means to [...]



Prof. Paul Kapur: Obama’s South Asian Policy

By kamla bhatt • Jun 17th, 2009 • Category: Books and Authors, Featured, Ideas, India, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
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South Asia has emerged as a top foreign policy agenda under President Obama’s administration. Within the first 100 days of President Obama’s administration there were significant policy announcements and developments in  USA’s South Asian, and a new term AFPak (Afghanistan and Pakistan) quickly gained currency. Earlier this year (March 2009) I spoke [...]



Prof Dyson on Ramanujan

By kamla bhatt • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: Books and Authors, Featured, Ideas, India, New York
 
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Professor Freeman Dyson talks about Srinvasa Iyengar Ramanujan, the well-known Indian, who studied and worked with Prof. Hardy at Cambridge University during the early part of the 20th century. Ramanujan was only 32 years old when he supposedly died of tuberculosis.  Prof. Dyson points out this might not be the case; Ramanujan may have instead [...]