In Part 2 of my interview with Sabena Puri, she talks about how she got Junnoon started and the help she got from Camellia Punjabi of Masala World Group that owns and operates some of the best Indian restaurants in the UK like Veeraswamy and Amaya.

Sabena also talks ...

Sabena Puri is the founder and owner of Junnoon, a Palo Alto-based restaurant and is located in the same building as Facebook.

In Part 1 Sabena talks about how she extended her IT product management skills into running the restaurant, including giving equity to the team at Junnoon. Prior ...

Helping to connect disconnected identity sytems is how Lena Kannappan, founder and CEO of Fugen Solutions describes his startup. In other words Fugen’s solutions helps manage ditigal identities, which is fast emerging as a hot-button issue for many companies that have a large consumer base. The company plans to ...

The digital divide issue is being addressed in some pretty innovative ways by startups in India. In this video clip you will meet Babaji, who works as a security guard for Read-Inc Technologies. He has access to a laptop and has learnt how to use Microsoft applications like Excel, and ...

Mridul Balaraman joined Read-Ink, a Bangalore-based startup about a year ago when he finished his studies in the U.S. and returned to India. We talk to him to find why he is working for a startup and if there is a connection between marriage propsects and working in ...

In our startups in Bangalore series, we bring you a video interview with Professor Tom Binfod and Ione Binford, co-founders of Read-Ink Technologies. The moved to Bangalore more than five years ago to work on their handwriting recognition and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) products.

What is it like to ...

Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha is a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. Recently, Navin’s name was included in the prestigious Forbes Midas List top 100 dealmakers in 2007.

I caught up with Navin at the Pan IIT Global Conference to find out how he transitioned from being a successful serial ...

Bangalore-based startup Babajob is a social networking site with a few interesting wrinkles. I recently met with Sean Blagsvedt, co-founder of Babalife in Bangalore, to find out about Babajob. A few weeks ago the company released its first private beta version of their service.

A kind of LinkedIn for villages ...

AskLaila.com recently released the beta version of their local information service. In India, the local online search and information market is still an untapped area, and many companies and startups are racing to become a dominant player in this field.

We bring you an exclusive video interview with ...

In the final part of our conversation, Umang Gupta, CEO of Keynote Systems, talks about his experience as an entrepreneur the second time around. After leaving his first company, Gupta Technologies, Umang took some time off to rethink and reinvent himself before coming back to head Keynote Systems and ...

ITES and BPO are two of the fastest-growing sectors in India. I rencently spoke with Prof. Phil Taylor of Strathcylde University, Glasgow, to find out about the BPO and ITES sector in India, misperceptions on outsourcing and the challenges for growth in this sector.

Phil was a speaker at a recent ...

Professor Bala Balachandran is considered one of the top 10 management gurus of Indian origin in the United States. He represents the first wave of Indian scholars who moved to top U.S.-based business schools and have since contributed to the growing recognition of India as a resource for ideas and ...

In this second part of our conversation with Umang Gupta, CEO of Keynote Systems talks about entrepreneurship and running a public company.

Umang, a co-founder of Gupta Technologies, shares his thoughts about running a public company and the lessons he learned from that experience. From being a master of his ...

Umang Gupta is CEO of Keynote Systems. I caught up with Umang at the Pan IIT Global Conference in July and talked to him about entrepreneurship and what it takes to do startups and run your business.

Umang wrote Oracle’s first business plan and went on to co-found Gupta Technologies and ...

Mayfield Fund’s Managing Director, Kevin Fong, heads their firm’s China-based strategy and investment.

In Part-2 of our conversation, Kevin talks about investing in China and the synergy between India and China. He thinks the two neighbors have a lot in common and is quick to point out that there could ...

Bangalore is fast-emerging as a hub for wireless and mobile value added servicess startup companies. I recently caught up with Raji Poddar of Sedna Wireless to find out how and why he started his company. Doing startups in India provides some interesting challenges. Recruiting the right kind of person to ...

K Vaitheeswaran is currently the chief operating officer of Indiaplaza, the world’s largest India-centric e-commerce company with operations in Bangalore, Chennai and Austin, Texas.

K Vaitheeswaran is a co-founder of www.fabmall.com, the company that pioneered the Indian E-commerce Industry. Since September 1999, he spent all his time and efforts ...

Mayfield Fund’s Managing Director, Kevin Fong, heads their firm’s China-based strategy and investments. I caught up with Kevin last month at the Pan IIT Global Conference to find out about the company’s investment strategy in China and how it all started. What are some of the things we don’t ...

Sameer Sisodia is a cofounder of Ziva Software, the makers of Zook, a mobile search service. Its an interesting company that is incubated at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Ziva Software has built the world’s first Mobile Social Answer Engine. The mobile answer engine delivers precise answers ...

GB Prabhat talks about what made him leave his top position as a Director at Satyam, one of India’s biggest software companies, and take the hard route to entrepreneurship.

This particular edition will be of special interest to both entrepreneurs and to those who aspire to be one.

When ...

GB Prabhat helped net in $200 million in revenue when he decided to quit Satyam Computer Services, one of India’s largest software companies. Prabhat left his cushy job to found a startup called Anantara Solutions which received investments of $6.5 million from Helion Venture Partners, Walden ...

Will mobile phones be the future for cash payment? Will mobile payment usher in a cashless society? Are services like Western Union threatened by mobile payment? These are all the questions that Aditya answers in this podcast. Aditya Menon is Chief Information and Technology Officer of Obopay India. ...

Hundreds of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni and faculty congregated in Silicon Valley for the 3-day Global Pan IIT Conference 2007.

Spekers included Jeff Immelt of GE, Arun Sarin of Vodofone, Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, Rajat Gupta of McKinsey, Senator Clinton (via satellite), Umang ...

In this video clip I quiz Rodrigues, who works for a tour and travel company in Bangalore, on how he uses his cell phone. We start with the missed call phenomena to SMS and ringtones.

Never heard of missed calls?  In India missed calls and SMS are the preferred means ...

Futurebazaar.com is India’s latest big ticket shopping site that comes from the group which owns India’s largest retail chain.

FutureBazaar.com recently got infused with a funding of $25 million and is bound to give established etailers in India many sleepless nights.

Led by Kishore Biyani, the group owns ...