Professor Maheshwari is the vice chancellor of BITS Pilani, one of the most prestigious educational instituitions in India. He has held various top-level positions at the instituition over the past 35 years. He has published four books and over 80 research papers in the ares of semiconductor electronics and ...

Utah venture capital and angel investment success is not limited to the Salt Lake Valley. Focusing on matching up investors and early-stage entrepreneurs, Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum chairman Steve Grizzell discusses UVEF’s origins and successes. A 20-year veteran in entrepreneurship, finance, innovation and economic development, Grizzell observes while ...

Mediconnect Global CEO, Amy Rees Lewis, speaks with Dennis Wood about how her own success as an entrepreneur, the passion to sell that successful entrepreneurs must have, and what to expect from venture financing. Lewis is a member of vSpring’s v-100 - a peer-nominated group of the ...

Cleantech Venture Network is a group of venture capitalists dedicated to finding investments in “clean” technologies. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Cleantech Co-Founder Nick Parker about the organization’s vision in New York.

The Cleantech Forum XII is right around the corner, February 19-22, in San Francisco. The San Francisco ...

Kanwal Rekhi is the founding father of the IndUS Entrepreneurism (TiE). He is actively focused on helping young entrepreneurs getting started.

In this interview, Kanwal shares why he started TiE and his keen interest in politics among other things.

Kanwal recently gifted $2 million to IIT Bombay, his ...

Most startups don’t pan out. According to findings from Wilfrid Laurier University entrepreneurship professor Dr. Benson Honig, the ones that do succeed tend to have a few key characteristics in common, but you might be surprised to learn what they are. According to Honig, there isn’t much correlation between ...

Dr. Girish Saraph is the founder of Vegayan Systems, a networking start-up company located in IIT, Mumbai.

Vegayan Systems was one of the three winners of the TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurship challenge that was announced at the TiE entrepreneurial conference ( Dec.17-19 , 2006), in Mumbai.

As one of ...

Info Edge (India) was the first Indian Internet company to go public on the Indian stock exchange in November 2006. It owns internet properties Naukri, 99 acres and Jeevansathi.

CEO and co-founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani was a featured speaker at the recently concluded first TiE India entrepreneurial conference ...

DNA has this to say about Picsquare: “Banking on the sentiments of Indians who hold family albums very dear, two techies, both graduates from IIT Bombay, have launched Picsquare, a website that will print and deliver digital photos posted on it anywhere in the country.”

This Bangalore-based startup is ...

Krisztina Holly is the executive director of the Stevens Institute for Technology Commercialization at the University of Southern California. The Institute was founded to aid the university in technology transfer for its intellectual property and to encourage entrepreneurship among its students and faculty. She spoke with Inside Digital Media’s Phil ...

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?

After ...

An overflow crowd waits for the Eric Schmidt Web 2.0 keynote. At $3,500 per conference attendee, and a full plate of sponsors, it looks like they made some serious bank. Speaking of bank, the Google CEO denies rumors of $500 million legal reserve for YouTube, ...

An overflow crowd waits for the Eric Schmidt Web 2.0 keynote. At $3,500 per conference attendee, and a full plate of sponsors, it looks like they made some serious bank. Speaking of bank, the Google CEO denies rumors of $500 million legal reserve for YouTube, and states that Google will never trap user data.

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 ...

Launched today, George Zachary talks about Charles River Ventures‘ QuickStart program, a seed funding program to jumpstart “capital lite” companies. He talks about the benefits to entrepreneurs, why it’s good timing for the current landscape, and why he is excited about it. With 1,000 emails in the QuickStart quickstart@crv.com ...

George Zachary of Charles River Ventures speaks with PodTech Founder John Furrier about CRV QuickStart, a new, innovative program the VC firm launched today. QuickStart offers loans of up to $250,000 to entrepreneurs to get their businesses started. Why? It’s a great deal for entrepreneurs, and it’s a ...

Iqbal Gandham has been involved with internet startups since before the days of Yahoo and Hotmail, when the coolest thing to do with a webpage was to make the text blink.

Initially based in the UK, Iqbal setup several ISPs, and then found his calling in India, where he went to ...

Here is the demo that AOL gave live in Santa Clara when they announced that they are opening up APIs for their ‘crown jewel’ AIM Instant Messenger. In a previous video AOL execs talked with PodTech’s CEO John Furrier in Santa Clara.

Jim Lussier is a general partner at Norwest Venture Partners. The highly-regarded venture capital firm has invested in more than 300 companies, including Tivoli, Documentum, Peoplesoft and Collabnet. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier caught up with him at the Demo Conference in San Diego.

Robert Thomas, CEO of Infoblox, speaks with PodTech founder John Furrier in the second part of a two-part podcast. They talk about entrepreneurship, starting a company, being a CEO, and taking a company public. Thomas was the CEO of NetScreen, a startup funded by Sequoia Capital and acquired by Juniper Networks. Robert talks about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur and successful CEO, both in inspiring employees and executing the business plan.

Back in February this year at Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book launch of “Naked Conversations”, John Furrier engaged Kaboodle CEO Manish Chandra in a fascinating discussion about the history of the entrepreneurial culture in India, and how that culture has found fertile grounds in Silicon Valley.

About Manish Chandra:
Manish Chandra arrived in Silicon Valley in 1989. His passion for growing small ideas took shape very early when he left Intel to join a small start-up called Sybase (with less than 80 people) while the valley was going through one of it’s down cycles in 1990. Manish played a variety of development and product management roles at Sybase and left the company in 1995 when it had over 6,000 employees. From there he joined Versata as their 8th employee and was part of the core executive team that took the company public in 2000. His latest venture, Kaboodle, is a consumer internet service that helps simplify people’s lives by letting them collect, organize and share all types of information from shopping, travel to health and real estate. In June, 2006, Kaboodle partnered with eBay to launch MyCollectibles, a service that helps collectors showcase their collections and passions on the web.

About Kiruba Shankar:
Kiruba Shankar is Associate Director at Sulekha.com, one of the biggest online portals for Indians worldwide. Blogstreet.com and BusinessWorld magazine rank him as one of India’s leading and most influential bloggers for the Kiruba Shankar blog, though he thinks the results are skewed.

Recognized for outstanding contributions as a ‘master entrepreneur’ at Ernst & Young Utah Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 Awards, Control4 CEO Will West discusses raising $250M in venture funds across four successful ventures in Utah, and his insights on keys to successful entrepreneurship.

In his welcoming remarks, Managing Partner of the Salt Lake City office of Ernst & Young David Jolley shares anecdotes about entrepreneurship as he kicks off the the Ernst & Young Utah Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 Awards held in Salt Lake City.