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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I caught up with Rajat Gupta at the Pan IIT 2007 conference in Silicon Valley last week. Mr. Gupta is deeply passionate about health and education and those were the twin topics of this conversation.

In this interview, he talks about the connection between healthcare and the ...

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, ...

On December 23, 2006, Dr. A.P.J. Kalam, the president of India, inaugurated the first Global Pan-IIT conference in Mumbai. The theme of the conference was: “Inspire to Involve and Transform India.” One of the early pioneers to help India involve and transform is Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, who ...

Basab Pradhan is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Gridstone Research.

As a fairly recent entry into the financial services space, where Basab and the Gridstone team are focused on creating products and services for the financial services sector. The company is more than a year old and has ...