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Yogen Dalal on Innovation, Mentors & Investments Part-2

By kamla bhatt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, Mumbai, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, VC & Private Equity Funding
 
 Yogen Dalal on Innovation, Mentors & Investment: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A few of the magical ingredients of what makes Silicon Valley unique is the easy access to mentors and investors. I turned to Yogen Dalal an engineer-turned entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist to find out the answers to many unanswered questions. Yogen came to Silicon Valley in the early 1970s to study at Stanford University. He is the Managing [...]


Yogen Dalal On Magic of Silicon Valley Part-1

By kamla bhatt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, Mumbai, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, VC & Private Equity Funding
 
 Yogen Dalal on Magic of Silicon Valley: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

What is the magic of Silicon Valley?  What is the magic that pulls people from all around the world to come and work here and make their dreams come true? I turned to Yogen Dalal an engineer-turned entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist, who came to Silicon Valley in the early 1970s to study at Stanford University.  Yogen [...]


Using Bollywood To Spread Literacy

By kamla bhatt • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Bangalore, Bollywood, Business & Tech, Diaspora, Entertainment, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
 PlanetRead's Brij Kothari: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Using Bollywood songs to promote literacy is an innovative and powerful idea, and is the brainchild of Brij Kothari. The hallmark of every Hindi or Bollywood film are the popular song and dance sequences, which most people can either recognize, sing or hum regardless of their level of education.
Brij hit upon this novel idea of [...]


Adam Greenfield on Everyware: Dawn of Ubiquitous Computing

By kamla bhatt • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, New York, USA
 
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Privacy online is a big hot button issue these days. Much before it went mainstream, Adam Greenfield has been talking about and wrote a  fascinating book called, “Everyware.” Currently he is head of design direction for service and user-interface design at Nokia, Finland.
Adam says everyware is “information processing embedded in the objects and surfaces of [...]


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