Bangalore-based startup Babajob is a social networking site with a few interesting wrinkles. I recently met with Sean Blagsvedt, co-founder of Babalife in Bangalore, to find out about Babajob. A few weeks ago the company released its first private beta version of their service.

A kind of LinkedIn for villages ...

AskLaila.com recently released the beta version of their local information service. In India, the local online search and information market is still an untapped area, and many companies and startups are racing to become a dominant player in this field.

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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 ...

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 ...

Bangalore is fast-emerging as a hub for wireless and mobile value added servicess startup companies. I recently caught up with Raji Poddar of Sedna Wireless to find out how and why he started his company. Doing startups in India provides some interesting challenges. Recruiting the right kind of person to ...

BarCamp Palo Alto is quickly becoming an annual Silicon Valley spectacle. Local startups open up their offices on the weekend to hundreds of fellow developers to showcase products and share skills. Aron Pruiett captured the hustle and bustle of event.

Also: Robert Scoble’s entertaining interview with Marc Canter, ...

VC are investing more money than ever before. But is it a good time to investment? There is a dearth of good exit strategies. The IPO market is still moribund and there are fewer large companies that are interested in acquiring startups. Paul Deninger, vice chairman at Jefferies & Company ...

Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president at Microsoft, heads up its strategic and emerging business initiatives. This means that he and his team work with startups in Silicon Valley and beyond, and with large companies partnering with Microsoft. Mr. Lewin is a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley, and has held top ...

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 ...

The venture capital Industry has enjoyed relatively good times in the last 3 years, but signs are starting to indicate trouble on the horizon, from liquidity problems to Sarbanes Oxley compliance.  Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman of Jefferies and Company Inc., takes a look ahead and analyzes potential warning signs of ...

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.

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GB Prabhat helped net in $200 million in revenue when he decided to quit Satyam Computer Services, one of India’s largest software companies. Prabhat left his cushy job to found a startup called Anantara Solutions which received investments of $6.5 million from Helion Venture Partners, Walden ...

Traffic Jams are a curse to city life. Finally, a startup has found a solution to overcome some of the problems.

When I was in Bangalore recently, a city notorious for its atrocious traffic jams, I was pleasantly surprised to see a sign at a traffic signal which told me ...

Sam Sethi is a London-based technology entrepreneur and consultant. Sam recently launched BlogNation, a worldwide network of blogs focusing on Web 2.0, mobile and enterprise startup space in 22 countries around the world (except the United States).

Sam was known in the blogosphere for the good coverage he did at ...

In this episode, Jason sits down with the quintessential angel investor Ron Conway, who shares his perspective and years of wisdom gained from 15 years in the valley. Topics include Ron’s valuable advice to startup companies, Ron’s opinion on CEO “payouts,” as well as anecdotes from the early days of ...

Proto.in is a bi-annual event in India that showcases technology start-up companies and innovative products.

Organised by The Knowledge Foundation, a national network of entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts, the second edition will see participation from 23 startup companies carefully chosen from a list of 120 nominations. Each startup will get ...

Rajan helped cofound the Bangalore chapter of MobileMondays. He is passionate about mobile technologies, and that passion has led him to co-found a mobile media startup company called Motvik.

In this episode, Rajan talks about the history of Mobile Mondays and how this global concept was born. He ...

NEA’s Managing Partner Kittu Kolluri is an engineer turned entrepreneur turned investor. I met with Kittu at NEA’s Sand Hill Road Office in Menlo Park to find out how he made this transistion from being an engineer to an investor.

Kittu started his engineering career at SGI, and ...

You’ve got a great idea for a successful business. You have a business plan, a management team in place and are all set to roll out your product. All you need now is the money to get started. But unless you have a million dollars stuffed under your mattress, finding ...

TinyTube is a very small startup founded by Allen Day, who tells me how TinyTube is bringing massive amounts of video to your tiny mobile screen. His service transcodes and proxies video content from several of your favortite video-hosting sights. Allen gives me a demo of how easy it ...

Satisfaction is people powered customer service. For smart companies, their passionate customers support each other in ways that companies alone can’t provide. Satisfaction is a San Francisco-based startup that facilitates this relationship, putting passionate users of products and services in the driver’s seat of customer service. I stopped by ...

In the second part of our conversation, Kaval Kaur talks about how Virsa got funded and how they built the company. What tips and advice does Kaval offer for entrepreneurs?

Kaval Kaur is a co-founder of SUFI, an incubator and angel investment company with offices in the USA and India. Kaval and her husband Jasveer co-founded Virsa, which was later acquired by SAP for a few hundred million dollars. Virsa is part of SAP’s Governance, Risk ...

Criticisms are being made by bloggers on Guy Kawasaki’s newest venture, Truemors. Kawasaki candidly addresses these challenges in this latest post on Marketing Voices. Kawasaki launched Truemors on approximately a $12,000 budget. Jones also prods Kawasaki to talk about how he is handling the negative fallout from his previous ...

Tangler is an interesting service centered around discussion groups. The heart of the service is similar to threaded discussion forums but with lots of AJAX goodness, real time notification and easy rich media integration. I had lunch with Tangler’s Mick Liubinskas, chief customer officer, and Erik Miller, chief financial ...