Anu Shukla is a serial entrepreneur who is currently busy with MyOfferPal, her third start-up, now in stealth mode (it recently received VC funding).

At the recent TiECon, Anu introduced and moderated the session with Meg Whitman, head of eBay. I caught up with Anu afterward to talk about entrepreneurship, ...

Manish Arora is the founder of Kincafe, a Silicon Valley-based social networking and Web 2.0 company. Kincafe is focused on connecting and cherishing your family connections by sharing photos, videos and other files in a secure environment. I caught up with Manish at TiECon 2007, where we spoke about ...

I caught up with Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media at TiECon 2007, where he spoke about Web 2.0 and chaired a panel discussion on Web 2.0 with Navin Ashwin of BitTorrent; Alex Welch of Photobucket and Jaideep Singh of Spock. In this interview we talk extensively about Web ...

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 ...

If there is one networking event where people of the Indus or South Asian region congregate to network and connect, it is the The Indus Entrepreneur’s annual event: TiECon. Over the years, TiECon has evolved to become an important networking event for technologists, investors and entrepreneurs from around the ...

At the recently concluded TiECon Meeting in New Delhi, TiE and Canaan Partners, along with other partners, announced a business competition for start-ups and businesses.

Canaan Partner’s Alok Mittal discusses the business plan competition: who can participate and what do winners walk away with as their prize?

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TiE Delhi’s annual conference, TiEcon 2006, was held on the 26th-28th October. The conference theme was ‘Entrepreneurship: The DNA of Growth’ and the event was a meeting ground for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, industry leaders etc. Besides the main conference sessions, the agenda also included networking sessions, interest specific ...

That familiar term IPO is making a comeback in India. Info Edge India Pvt Ltd opened its Initial Public Offering for subscription from today through November 2, 2006. Info Edge owns properties like Naukri.com, a job search portal; JeevanSaathi.com, a matchmaking portal and 99acres.com, a real estate ...

Here is your chance to preview some of the content for the soon-to-be-launched PodTech India channel. PodTech India is dedicated to on-the-ground coverage of ideas, trends, and people involved in the Indian technology industry.

PodTech India gives you direct access to ideas, influencers, and issues originating from the ecosystem of Indian entrepreneurs, thought leaders, companies, and startups. The PodTech India Channel also capitalizes on a shared connection between technology epicenters in India and technologically-attuned Indian diasporas worldwide, including the Silicon Valley.

This panel discussion focuses on key issues facing US companies investing in emerging companies abroad, including cultural approaches, customer preferences, marketing efforts and more. Panelists include Mintoo Bhandari, The View Group (moderator), Bob Nephew, Korn Ferry, Dr. Shan Nair, Nair & Co., Dave Vieau, A123 Sysytems, Venu Raghavan, Encora, Inc.

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“Strong personalities have strong opinions, and most of the time, those opinions may differ. Being able to resolve those conflicts is challenging,” said Harry Ruda, the founder and CEO of Softricity. Ruda was one of four panelists who discussed how they define, create and maintain high performance organizations.

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“The pace of paradigm shift is growing exponentially,” said author and futurist Ray Kurzweil in his keynote speech at TiECON East 2006. Kurzweil talked about exponential growth of information technology, what comes after Moore’s Law, and reverse-engineering the human brain.

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TiEcon 2006 Podcasts

S. Ramadorai considers a round of questions about serving markets and building businesses in an increasing complex global marketplace.

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Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen says companies shouldn’t base their strategy on the customer as much as on the job the customer needs the product for. When you hire a milkshake what do you expect it to do? Check out this podcast for the answer.

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Leaders in Life Sciences engage in a panel discussion on the state of the industry in India and the practicalities of international business plans in the perspective of globalization.

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Howard Anderson speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson after his Keynote speech at TiECON East 2006 in Boston. Anderson says, “It would be nice to say that we always move to advance more technical, but China’s going there too. We’ve always pushed out some of the labor intensive businesses to the ...

Howard Anderson of the Yankee and Battery Ventures delivers an edgy and dynamic look at the future roles of India and China in the global economy of the not too distant future, and the history of global business culture in Asia and America.

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Shyno Chacko works with ASHOKA, a non-profit group seeking out and promoting Social Entrepreneurship. PodTech’s Michael Johnson talks with Chacko about her work with the group and the changes they’ve facilitated the world round.

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“Is the Internet going to displace broadcast media?” asked Josh Bernoff, VP and Principal Analyst with Forrester Research. Bernoff moderated a discussion about digital media convergence in which panelists from content and distribution companies discussed opportunities and challenges in the digital media space.

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Hatim Tyabji, Executive Chairman of Bytemobile and Best Buy Board Member, finished out the opening keynote at TiECON 2006. In a speech peppered with inspirational advice for entrepreneurs, Tyabji spoke about building corporate culture in the new “flat world” of IT.

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“Wireless is really an all-encompassing concept,” said Jon Auerbach, former Wall Street Journal technology reporter and currently GP at highland Capital Partners. Auerbach was one of the panelists on the “Emerging Trends in Wireless” session at TiECON East 2006. Abhi Ingle, Cingular Wireless; Steve Nicolle, Tatara Systems; DP Venkatesh, mPortal; ...

“In astronomy it turns out that amateur astronomers are finding comets and asteroids before NASA and all the science labs can because the data is being sent out to the community and they can search and look in a distributed way much much faster than the labs can on their ...

S. Ramadorai says sustaining quality and employee competency is one of the big challenges in the industry, especially as the playing field evens out around the world. He is the CEO and Managing Director of the $2.25 billion software company Tata Consultancy Services Limited. “In terms of I.T. services and ...

“The flat world will challenge cherished beliefs,” said Frank Douglas, Executive Director of the newly formed MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation. In this podcast, you’ll hear Douglas’ keynote speech on the challenges and opportunities for biopharmacology in a flat world at TiECON East in Boston. Until his recent retirement from ...