Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneur’

By kamla bhatt • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, Los Angeles, New Delhi, New York, VC & Private Equity Funding

Rafat Ali started blogging three years ago as a way to land a job. Instead of looking for a job, he ended up running a new media start-up.
The blog has grown from a one-person operation to a new media start-up with a strong revenue stream. His three sites: paidContent, Moconews and ContentSutra log about five [...]



By kamla bhatt • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

How do you know you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? How or when do you recognize that you want to become an entrepreneur? What about the role family and spouse in an entrepreneur’s life. Often, the extended family pays a significant toll during an entrepreneur’s roller coaster ride to make their company [...]



By kamla bhatt • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, VC & Private Equity Funding

“Never assume that high risk means high pay-offs.” Meet Dr. Pradeep Khosla, Dean of College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a premier research university located in Pittsburgh. It is not very often that you come across an entrepreneurial dean who talks about research and the passion and risks involved as an entrepreneur. [...]



By kamla bhatt • Mar 9th, 2006 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, New York

We bring you an interview with Mr. Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro Ltd, from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Wall Street.
This was the fourth time that Mr. Premji rang the closing bell at the NYSE. “And, all four times we took the market up,” commented Mr. Premji with a smile. Afterwards Mr. Premji came [...]