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

23:28 | Kamla Bhatt | Jul 19th, 2007 5:28pm |

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, and how to handle failure, generally.

Yogen was part of Vint Cerf’s team at Stanford, working on TCP/IP protocol. There, he co-authored the TCP specification. TCP/IP is what makes it possible for all of us to use the Internet today. Tune in to find out what Yogen has to say about his TCP/IP-related work as a graduate student at Stanford.

Yogen currently sits on the boards of Affinity Labs, Consorte, Packet Design, PacketHop, Podbridge and Revenue Science. Yogen’s investments include Arbor Software, BeVocal, BroadVision, Concur, Nuance, OuterBay, Packet Engines, Snapfish, TIBCO, Vantive and Whistle.

Yogen has an undergraduate degree from IIT, Mumbai and a PhD from Stanford University.