Investor Panel in Headstart 2009

The investor panel on Jan 9 participation from the entire spectrum of VCs. The panel was moderated by K Ganapathy Subramanian who was formerly with Jumpstartup. The other panelists were Mohanjit Jolly from DFJ, Varsha Tagare from Intel Capital, TC Meenakshisundaram from IDG Ventures, Karthee Madasamy from Qualcomm Ventures and Gagan Kumar from Accel Partners.… Continue reading Investor Panel in Headstart 2009

Enterprise demos at Headstart 2009

Widom Tap is in the area of Product search. There is a problem that most online retailers face. To get people to write reviews is a big challenge. The only people who have solved this process is Amazon. What should everyone else do? Most solutions do not have a clean integration of all the sources… Continue reading Enterprise demos at Headstart 2009

Panel on Innovation in Consumer Services

The panelists were Amit Dayal from Yahoo, Kiran Anandampillai from OnMobile, Rajesh Sawhney from Reliance Entertainment, Kiran Konduri from AskLaila. The panel was moderated by Harish Gandhi, Canaan Partners. The theme of yesterday’s discussion was: How entrepreneurs can take advantage of consumer market dynamics and lead to innovative services. Harish opened with the boom in… Continue reading Panel on Innovation in Consumer Services

Entrepreneur Panel at Headstart 2009

Panelists for the morning include Jay Pullur from Pramati, Giri Krishna from Sylvan Learning, Sujai Karampuri from Sloka Telecom. It was moderated by Srinivasan from Amagi. Pullur opened with a topic on what an entrepreneur should do in these days. He outlined the challenges that entrepreneur faces everyday. He said “95% of the profits goes… Continue reading Entrepreneur Panel at Headstart 2009

Consumer Demos Session

Five of the best consumer companies are up for demo at Headstart 2009. The jury members of this leg of demos at Headstart 2009 were Vishwanathan Poosala of Alcatel-Lucent, Alok Mittal of Canaan Partners and Arvin Babu of Greylock Partners. CashNXT Technologies: They demoed their P2P money transfer solution. You have to call 044-667-678-93 and… Continue reading Consumer Demos Session

TCS announces partnership with Headstart in its Co-Innovation Network

Ananth Krishnan, CTO has just announced partnership with Headstart in its Co-Innovation Network at Headstart 2009. Earlier, he talked about how TCS sees startups as a path to innovate better. TCS had a look at its innovation strategy in 2002. He said that TCS had already been researching for more than 20 years by then.… Continue reading TCS announces partnership with Headstart in its Co-Innovation Network

Embedded systems and semiconductor segment demos

These are the kind of people who keep away from the limelight which is usually haogged by the internet-mobile guys. Most of the founders of these companies are from TI (Texas Instruments). BioEnable: They showcased their non-metallic active RFID tag ‘AeroTag’ that can have no issues that normally plague a metallic tag. They say that… Continue reading Embedded systems and semiconductor segment demos

Demos from Mobile and communication segment: Part 2 of 2

Sloka Telecom: Sujai made an impact. As always! He made us sit through a WiMax network. “We want to change the way the networks are deployed – dramatically. Most of the team comes from traditional network deployement equipment background. We figured out that the cell-size for mobiled need to be smaller and smaller – Closer… Continue reading Demos from Mobile and communication segment: Part 2 of 2