Archives for the ‘Ideas’ Category

In Conversation With Nandan Nilekani Part-2

By kamla bhatt • Jan 16th, 2010 • Category: Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

In Part-2 of the interview Nandan Nilekani talks the changing dynamics of Indian political landscape, especially in the federal-state relationship. What can India learn from China? What is needed for India to move forward? What is missing? These were some of the questions he answered.
In case you missed, you can listen to Part-1 of the conversation, [...]



In Conversation With Nandan Nilekani Part-1

By kamla bhatt • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

Nandan Nilekani is the co-founder and former head of Infosys, one of India’ s best success stories. Infosys is an Indian IT powerhouse that was founded during India’s famous “License Raj,” phase, which was known for its regulatory hurdles. Thomas Friedman in his book credits Nandan for coining that famous phrase, which became the title of  [...]



Yahoo’s David Filo on Frugality, Early Days of Yahoo! & Bangalore

By kamla bhatt • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, USA

David Filo and his classmate Jerry Yang started Yahoo! in the mid-1990s, when the Internet was just taking off. Their initial website was a collection of interesting links, a list of sorts, which eventually morphed and became a major Internet company.
In this interview David talks about the early days of Yahoo!, frugality [...]



NEA’s Kittu Kolluri Part-2

By kamla bhatt • Nov 24th, 2009 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Hyderabad, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, VC & Private Equity Funding

NEA’s Managing Partner, Kittu Kolluri is an engineer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-investor. I met with Kittu at NEA’s Sand Hill Road office in Menlo Park, Calif., to find out how he made this transition from being an engineer to an investor.
In Part 2 of our conversation Kittu talks about one of his favorite topics: entrepreneurship.
In case you [...]