Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurship’

By kamla bhatt • Nov 24th, 2009 • Category: Business & Tech, Featured, Hyderabad, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, VC & Private Equity Funding
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This is a 2-part candid interview with venture capitalist Kittu Kolluri of NEA.
Earlier today, Teracent, one of Kittu’s portfolio company was acquired by Google for an undisclosed amount.
I met with Kittu at NEA’s Sand Hill Road Office in Menlo Park to find out how he made this transition from being an engineer to [...]



By kamla bhatt • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, VC & Private Equity Funding

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 [...]



By kamla bhatt • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, VC & Private Equity Funding

What does it take to create an ecosystem for entrepreneurs in India? How is innovation and entrepreneurship being fostered in India? How do you create a robust ecosystem for the IT sector that just got a few tens of millions of dollars in investment in 2007? What are the challenges that the VC community within [...]



By kamla bhatt • Jun 18th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Los Angeles, USA, Video

Entrepreneurship, innovation, startups and Microsoft is what makes Paul Murphy tick. Paul is Director of Innovation at Microsoft and his company has pretty ambitious goals about fostering and creating opportunities for innovation in India, especially among the student community.
When Paul is not working out of his office in Bangalore, he is [...]