Posts Tagged ‘Silicon Valley’

By kamla bhatt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, Mumbai, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, VC & Private Equity Funding

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 [...]



By kamla bhatt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, Mumbai, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, VC & Private Equity Funding

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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]