Food is about buiiding your community, your tribe, your family and the deeper hunger to be connected to each other to be loved and needed says Roger Egger. The power of food is what Egger digs and he shares how he came to dig the power of food. The kitchen is a beautiful bad ass… Continue Reading
BiteSV was a 3-day conference held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Food was center stage at the conference, and more imporantaly our relationship with food and the challenge to feed billions of people in a healthy way. Chefs, technologists, and others from the food industry came together to talk about feeding 9 billion people, which… Continue Reading
Chef Roy Choi of Kogi truck fame and a pioneer of the food truck movement in America has a crazy idea called Loco’l. He is working with San Francisco chef Daniel Patterson and others to bring this idea to fruition. They want to revolutinize the food movement in inner cities of America, which are… Continue Reading
Ever wondered about the tower of Babel of programming languages? What programming languages do Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and Google use? I have. Am often on the lookout for articles that explain how companies like Twitter and Facebok scale and morph and add new features so quickly. Remember how we stuck around Twitter when the famous… Continue Reading
For the past 2 years we have produced a special TV series on Women in Science & Tech. Our sense was that this series would resonate with our audience in the San Francisco Bay area. Happily we got very encouraging feedback from viewers and programming folks from various TV stations. And then we expanded our footprint… Continue Reading
Medallia, a Palo Alto-based company raised $150 million yesterday and became the latest member of the Unicorn club. Unicorns are companies whose valuation is over $1 billion. Medallia’s valuation was over a $1 billion according to Borge Hold, CEO of the company. The latest round of funding was led by Sequoia Capital, which participated in previous… Continue Reading
This was my first trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium that is about 90 minutes away from Silicon Valley. While I have visited Monterey and Carmel many times, I never did manage to visit the famous aquarium. Monterey Bay Aquarium demands your total attention from the moment you step in. There is so much to see… Continue Reading
Quick note to let you know there will be no podcast interviews this week. Will be back next week with a new podcast interview. You can listen and download our podcast interviews from our website, iTunes and some of them are available on our YouTube channel. If you like what you hear, do share and… Continue Reading
This was a wonderful and got to interview interesting folks from the world of technology, startups, films, food (yes, food startups is a big trend) and authors. This collage is a sample of the various guests on our show about life, people and ideas. Thank you all for your support and encouragement. And, if you… Continue Reading
Meet Nicki Boyd of VersaMe, a Silicon Valley-based startup. We sat down to speak with her about her entrepreneurial journey and how she and her two co-founders founded VersaMe, a wearable tech company. VersaMe means talk to me and we talk to Boyd about their first product -Starling. This is the first time Boyd is working… Continue Reading
Open-Sourced budget? Did you read that right? Yes. This is the first time that the US government has published its annual budget (FY 2016) on GitHub.It is is going the open-source route. Users are free to use the data from the budget in any way they want. Besides GitHub, the budget is also published in… Continue Reading
The first BiteSV food and technology conference brings together chefs, winemakers and technologists under one roof from June 4-7, 2015 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Chef José Andrés, Josh Tetrick, CEO of Hampton Creek Food, Chef Michael Chiarello, and Dr. Robert Fraley, executive vice president of Monsanto are some of the speakers at the event. Roi Choi, Charlie Ayers, Mei Lin, Michale… Continue Reading
Thanks for stopping by. Guess, you want to know a little bit about me. So, here goes… In the 1990s I found myself working in Silicon Valley. This was the start of the dotcom boom. I watched the powerful unleashing of innovation and entrepreneurship all around me. I got a chance to work for two bootstraped… Continue Reading
Very sad to hear about the passing away of Indian journalist Vinod Mehta. He was the founder editor of Outlook, a weekly magazine. 73 year Mehta apparently passed away from multiple organ failure according to The Hindu. Mehta had a long stint as a journalist working with various publications including India Post and Pioneer. He… Continue Reading
Austrian Chocolate Burrito? Vietnames Apple Kebab? Like me, you probably have not heard of these dishes. You are probably thinking there is an error and it should really be Mexican burrito or Turkish kebabs. But, what happens when you introduce big data into the kitchen and let IBM’s Watson do all the data crunching, analysis,… Continue Reading
Meet Silicon Valley startup LUMOback Tech’s Charles Wong. Trained as a medical doctor, Charles decided to take that fork in the road and go the tech route. He got his MBA from Stanford, and went on to co-found LUMOBack Tech. They raised money both through the traditional Venture Capital round and via Kickstarter, the crowd… Continue Reading
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