It started with an innocuous audio interview with the then-President of the Products and Technology Group at SAP AG, Shai Agassi. Then came Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, sitting at a table with an umbrella. It wasn’t long before Scoble introduced us to Thomas Hawk (investment advisor by day, ...

Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly discuss the key events this week, including the release of the Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs from vSpring Capital. It is a peer-nominated and peer-selected group of individuals that the community predicts will become a CTO or CEO of a high-tech company in the next ...

Some quick highlights in this weeks Connectcast include reflections about James Levoy Sorenson’s legacy includes inventing disposal surgical masks and an entire legacy of medical innovations. A quick discussion around Venture Debt options and when they should be considered - Innoventures a new company, UVEF tackles social ...

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 ...

Brazillian educational broadcasting organization Canal Futura was one of the Microsoft Education Awards Laureates at this year’s Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, Inc. Canal Futura uses technology to augment Brazil’s education system, which faces challenges like poverty as well as many different cultures and languages spread ...

While in Barcelona at Adobe MAX ‘07, James talks with Duane Nickull about their upcoming book Web 2.0 Design Patterns.

Paul Pluschkell, CEO and Founder of Spigit.com, talks with John Ince about their platform that enables would be entrepreneurs to launch virtual companies online and take the company through stages of growth all with feedback and support from the broader Spigit community. The process lets entrepreneurs to test out ideas ...

Paul Pluschkell, CEO and Founder of Spigit, talks with John Ince about their platform that enables would be entrepreneurs to launch virtual companies online and take the company through stages of growth all with feedback and support from the broader Spigit community. The process lets entrepreneurs test out ideas in ...

From the 2007 Office 2.0 Conference, Sean Wise moderates a panel consisting of Sam Angus (partner, Fenwick & West), Jeff Clavier (managing director, SoftTech VC), Jai Das (investment partner, SAP Ventures), M.R. Rangaswami (founder, Sand Hill Group) and Gordon Ritter (general partner, Emergence ...

Greg Warnock has a soft spot for entrepreneurs. Whether it’s through mentoring, work deals at vSpring Capital, or angel investing, Warnock has seen a lot of companies. He’s also learned that it takes more than good technology and a strong development team to succeed.

Trained as a computer scientist, ...

In this episode, Jason sits down with author and business psychologist Dr. Mark Goulston to discuss some fascinating psychological aspects of entrepreneurship.

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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 ...

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 ...

This is a special edition of ConnectCast and the v100 Show. We were at the vSpring Capital v100 luncheon for the top 100 venture entrepreneurs, where Kevin Rollins, former CEO of Dell, gave the keynote. We spoke with Kevin about the economic growth opportunities that Utah faces ...

In this special, combined ConnectCast and v100 Show, news from the vSpring Capital v100 luncheon for the top venture entrepreneurs. We spoke with Jack Brittain about his position as Innovations Czar at the University of Utah. The U of U is an economic engine for the ...

Charles Coonradt is the author of the book The Game of Work. Coonradt had an epiphany one day when he watched how engaged and excited people were when playing basketball on a work break. His thought was why couldn’t this same model be applied to work? Coonradt created ...

Nick DeMonner, Lisa Hansen and Mike Minardi are trying to launch a start-up into a tough market with just modest funding. Which means they’re cutting costs at every turn. But they’ve found that a low-budget lifestyle doesn’t mean eating ramen every day. The San Jose trio have discovered how ...

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 ...

Harish founded Smile Interactive, the company that incubated Quasar, one of India’s top digital advertising agencies. It’s also behind Tyroo, an advertising network that Yahoo recently bought a substantial part of. It also built the technology behind MakeMyTrip, India’s biggest travel portal.

In this podcast, Harish talks ...

KB Chandrasekhar helped set up a research centre in 1999 at the Madras Institute of Technology Campus of the Anna University. He infuses $1 million every year into the research centre. It underlined his strong belief in research as a passage to entrepreneurship.

The vision of the centre is ...

Gopal Srinivasan belongs to Chennai-based TVS family, which runs the TVS groups of companies. TVS has led to the growth of Chennai as the automotive capital of India, and today Chennai is known as Detroit of India.

I caught up with Gopal in Manhattan, to find out about the ...