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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
More... 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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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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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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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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