Last October, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook, suddenly placing Facebook’s value at a lofty $15 billion. Now, we see that revenues for 2007 came to around $150 million, while expenses still leave the company with a negative cash flow that could be as high as $150 million next ...

Ever start to gaggle when driving behind a huge diesel truck spewing forth noxious exhaust fumes? Lincoln Evans Beauchamp, CEO of EWA Environmental Inc., decided to do something about it. His Palo Alto based startup has developed a green technology that reduces exhaust emissions of diesel trucks, one ...

Ever start to gaggle when driving behind a huge diesel truck spewing forth noxious exhaust fumes? Lincoln Evans Beauchamp, CEO of EWA Environmental Inc., decided to do something about it. His Palo Alto based startup has developed a green technology that reduces exhaust emissions of diesel trucks, one ...

Kreeda, a gaming startup located in Mumbai, the epicenter of India’s nascent gaming industry. Earlier this year Kreeda received an undisclosed amount of money from IDG Ventures India and Bodhi Softbank Holdings.

In Part-2 of the conversation we talk to Quentin about doing business in India vs. doing business in ...

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 ...

Guy Kawasaki came to Utah to speak to a group of over 500 business and technology leaders. With a packed room Guy, as always, motivated the crowd and created energy for the attendees. And in the M&A space WiLife, a privately held startup that developed home surveillance hardware and monitoring ...

Helping people engage with ideas and information is how Shantanu Narayen, President and COO of Adobe describes what his company does best. Adobe recently completed 25 years and is expected to about $3 billion in revenue this year.

I caught up with Shantanu, who was on a ...

As more and more cellphones become Web enabled, Anurag Nigam and Manish Lachwani, co-founders of InSync Inc., believe there is a growing need for an Internet portal for mobile devices. Their San Francisco-based, self-funded startup, 411Synch enables anyone to access their favorites on the Web with one touch, keyword strokes. ...

Christian Wilson and Kelly Springer, who head up Business Development of the startup Website Magazine are two true believers who feel that there is still a role for a print publication focused on the Web. Although their publication is also published online, they believe that many people still enjoy the ...

Sybrant is an unique company that helps startup companies develop product. It’s what its CEO, V.Thiagarajan, describes best as, “Come in with an idea, Walk out with a product.”

The company has been conceived and established to take up the challenging environments of “Product Development” with a focused approach that ...

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 ...

Helping to connect disconnected identity sytems is how Lena Kannappan, founder and CEO of Fugen Solutions describes his startup. In other words Fugen’s solutions helps manage ditigal identities, which is fast emerging as a hot-button issue for many companies that have a large consumer base. The company plans to ...

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 ...

The digital divide issue is being addressed in some pretty innovative ways by startups in India. In this video clip you will meet Babaji, who works as a security guard for Read-Inc Technologies. He has access to a laptop and has learnt how to use Microsoft applications like Excel, and ...

Next week is the famous “Demo” conference. Shel Israel has been going to Demo ever since it started back in the 1980s and helping startups prepare. His companies have won “Demo God” awards seven times. Here he gives startups some advice. He also talks with me about the book we ...

If you want to create a startup business, you’ve got to create (and follow through on) plans. From creating a business plan, tracking financials to following through on goals, PlanHQ makes this process possible and painless. I spoke with Tim Norton, CEO and founder of PlanHQ, who describes ...

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, ...

Intel Capital invests in startup companies all over the world (as in the recent Nascentric announcement, this past summer’s announcement with VMware, or relationships with firms like Bulgarian WiMAX company Nexcom) with the goal of improving technology deployment, entrepeneurship, and tech development (and generally “inspiring the ...

Indy Gill, CEO of Unwirednation.com, an Austin-based startup, explains how their voice publishing platform enables mobile content producers to monetize their content through their ad insertions. Gill explains how the platform builds upon a successful partnership with eBay that enabled voice-based interaction with bidders on eBay to notify them when ...

Indy Gill, CEO of Unwirednation.com, an Austin-based startup explains how their voice publishing platform enables mobile content producers to monetize their content through their ad insertions. He talks the advantages of their voice publishing platform over of text-based messaging in terms of reducing barriers and improving cost effectiveness.

Mridul Balaraman joined Read-Ink, a Bangalore-based startup about a year ago when he finished his studies in the U.S. and returned to India. We talk to him to find why he is working for a startup and if there is a connection between marriage propsects and working in ...

In our startups in Bangalore series, we bring you a video interview with Professor Tom Binfod and Ione Binford, co-founders of Read-Ink Technologies. The moved to Bangalore more than five years ago to work on their handwriting recognition and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) products.

What is it like to ...

Last week, I talked with Lauren Sell and Josh Dilworth of Porter Novelli Austin about doing PR for tech startups. My primary interest was figuring out what the day-to-day life of a tech PR person is, and to figure out and lessons learned. In this first part, we ...

In this podcast, Marc Jourlait, Seagate’s VP of Global Marketing, talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about hybrid hard drives, a combination of Flash and hard drives with new features like faster startup time, increased battery life for laptops, and more. Jourlait says that currently, Windows Vista is the ...