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Gaming Company Kreeda's Quentin Staes-Polet Part-2

MP3 Audio Audio | 12:35 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | December 7th, 2007 5:39 pm

Kreeda, a gaming startup located in Mumbai, the epicenter of India’s nascent gaming industry. Earlier this year Kreeda received an undisclosed amount of money from IDG Ventures India and Bodhi Softbank Holdings.

In Part-2 of the conversation we talk to Quentin about doing business in India vs. doing business in …

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Gaming Company Kreeda's Quentin Staes-Polet Part-1

MP3 Audio Audio | 16:32 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | December 6th, 2007 2:46 pm

Gaming is fast gaining track in India and Mumbai is the epicenter for the industry. I finally caught up with Quentin Staes-Polet, CEO of Kreeda in Bangalore to find out about Kreeda, doing business in India and the challenges of doing business in India. Kreeda bills itself as India’s …

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Mayfield Fund's Yogen Dalal on IIT, India and Entrepreneurship

MP3 Audio Audio | 23:28 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | July 19th, 2007 5:28 pm

Yogen Dalal is the managing director at Mayfield Fund, in Silicon Valley. I caught up with Yogen at the Pan IIT Global meet, where we talked about IIT, Mayfield's India strategy and entrepreneurship.

In the interview, Yogen answers some tough questions, like what to do if your venture fails, …

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Ravi Swaminathan, President of HP India's Personal Systems Group

MP3 Audio Audio | 12:43 | Posted by Kiruba Shankar | July 2nd, 2007 2:52 pm

Ravi Swaminathan is president of Hewlett Packard's Personal Systems Group for India. He has countrywide responsibility for the entire range of consumer and commercial PCs, laptops, workstations and the emerging range of personal access devices including handhelds.

Ravi joined Compaq in 1995 and started the consumer PC business in India. …

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Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman of Microsoft India

MP3 Audio Audio | 20:09 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | May 21st, 2007 4:48 pm

Ravi Venkatesan is the chairman of Microsoft. Ravi is directly responsible for marketing, sales, operational and business development of Microsoft's efforts in India.

I caught up with Ravi at TiECon 2007 in Santa Clara, to get a comprehensive picture of Microsoft's India operations. What is Microsoft's broad India …

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Aashish Kalra of Trikona Capital on Investements in Infrastructure and Real Estate in India

MP3 Audio Audio | 32:56 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | May 11th, 2007 4:18 pm

Aashish Kalra of Trikona Capital is a key player in the development and investment of infrastructure and real estate in India. Trikona Capital is one of the few key players in building new roads, townships, hospitals and other infrastructure-related projects in India. For instance they are one of …

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Ingrid Srinath, CEO of CRY

MP3 Audio Audio | 13:48 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | May 4th, 2007 2:54 pm

There are two sides to every coin. So, there is the India Story that celebrates the new and emerging India with an annual GDP of almost 10 percent that has strong IT and technology sector, and has millions of dollars coming through FDI and VC and PE investments etc. Then …

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In Conversation With Asawari Desai, Director of TiE Global

MP3 Audio Audio | 10:20 | Posted by Kiruba Shankar | May 2nd, 2007 5:45 pm

Asawari Desai is a director with TiE Global, overseeing the performance of all the 42 offices. At TiE she is responsible for defining organizational strategy and vision, branding, identifying and addressing issues concerning the organization and individual offices and evaluating opportunities to open new offices.

Prior to TiE she worked …

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PayMate Founder Ajay Adiseshann on E-Commerce via SMS

MP4 Video Video | 05:01 | Posted by Kiruba Shankar | May 2nd, 2007 11:13 am

Ajay Adiseshann is the founder and managing director of PayMate. He helped set up the company in May 2006. As managing director of PayMate, he is responsible for day-to-day operations, marketing, business development and overall strategy.

PayMate is the first-of-its-kind mobile payment service in India, which helps customers buy things …

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Interview with Deap Ubhi, Cofounder of Burrp.com, a lifestyle social site

MP3 Audio Audio | 17:10 | Posted by Kiruba Shankar | April 11th, 2007 3:27 pm

Burrp! is a lifestyle social site that allows users to submit and review lifestyle-related listings like restaurants, bars and nightlife.

Deap Ubhi co-founded this site along with his friend Anand Jain. Deap is a mergers & acquisitons man with private equity experience. He most recently was a senior associate at …

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India Tech News Round-Up

MP3 Audio Audio | 03:29 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | March 30th, 2007 5:37 pm

Dominating this week's round-up are investment and merger and acquisition news.

Topping the investment this week is SKS Microfinance that received $11.5 million in investments. The investment round was led by Sequoia Capital. Other investors include Unitus Equity Fund, Vinod Khosla, Ravi Reddy, Odyssey Capital, SIDBI.

Mumbai-based Games2win received $5 million …

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Weekly Tech News Roundup from India

MP3 Audio Audio | 05:02 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | March 25th, 2007 8:33 pm

The amount of funding received by tech start-ups in India appears to be shrinking if we go by some recent investments. Moveo Systems recently received a new round of angel funding from undisclosed investors. Ziva software, a mobile search company, received about $1.5 million from Nadathur …

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Adventity CEO Kumar Subramanian on Funding from Norwest

MP3 Audio Audio | 20:28 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | March 6th, 2007 1:31 pm

Kumar Subramanian, with over 18 years of experience in the banking and financial sector, heads Adventity, a successful financial BPO/KPO company that has operations in India and USA.

Kumar spends weekdays in Mumbai, and flies home to the southern city of Chennai to be with his family, and come Sunday …

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Tech News Round-up from India

MP3 Audio Audio | 06:37 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | February 9th, 2007 1:05 pm

The IPO season is underway in India. Media company Global Broadcast News, which operates CNN and other news channels, went IPO earlier this week. It listed on both the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange.

Bangalore-based MindTree Consulting is going IPO on the Indian stock exchange. …

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Vijay Shekhar of One97 on Mobile VAS Market in India

MP3 Audio Audio | 12:19 | Posted by Kiruba Shankar | February 9th, 2007 12:56 pm

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the managing director of One97, a mobile value-added services company. One97 has many firsts to its credit, including India's first short code sms service, 3030.

Vijay talks about how they started, the various offerings of One97, impact of 3G and the overall VAS market in …

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Pravin Gandhi of SEED Fund on Early Stage Investing

Audio | 09:57 | Posted by Kiruba Shankar | January 31st, 2007 5:40 pm

IT and Telecom Bring a Transformation in Rural India

Audio | 28:56 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | January 26th, 2007 5:21 pm

Weekly Tech News RoundUp from India

Audio | 03:50 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | January 11th, 2007 2:36 pm

From Oracle to a Successful Vineyard: Rajeev Samant of Sula Wines

Audio | 10:54 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | January 10th, 2007 11:27 am

Vegayan Systems' Dr. Girish Saraph On the Future of Networking Products in India

Audio | 10:20 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | January 9th, 2007 5:34 pm

Naukri.com Founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani: What Does It Take to Start a Company?

Audio | 11:22 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | January 8th, 2007 2:05 pm

TiE Global Chairman Apurv Bagri on the Role of TiE in India

Audio | 15:51 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | January 5th, 2007 3:07 pm

Weekly Tech News Round-Up from India

Audio | 05:00 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | December 27th, 2006 4:53 pm

Vishal Gupta on BREW Mobile Developers Conference

Audio | 09:00 | Posted by Kiruba Shankar | November 30th, 2006 1:52 pm

Rishi Navani on Online Movie Rental Services and Other Investment Opportunities in India

Audio | 23:58 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | November 17th, 2006 8:35 pm

Weekly Tech News Round-Up from India

Audio | 08:37 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | November 16th, 2006 8:21 pm

The Kamla Bhatt Show: MingleBox CEO, Kavita Iyer, on Social Networking and Weekly News Updates

Audio | 06:29 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | October 18th, 2006 7:16 pm

Vickram's View: Mobile Monday in Mumbai

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The Kamla Bhatt Show: Exclusive Interview with Web18 CEO plus Weekly News Update

Audio | 06:47 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | October 11th, 2006 8:23 pm

The Kamla Bhatt Show: Cleartrip's Sandeep Murthy on Online Travel in India

Audio | 19:50 | Posted by Kamla Bhatt | October 7th, 2006 2:40 pm

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