K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. For anyone coming from India (like me) or China, this mean a protracted waiting period.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Eric, what you've termed 'datablindness' seems to be a common affliction in fields which experience a sudden rise in the volume of data they have access to.

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entrepreMusings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

UC-Berkeley’s AnnaLee Saxenian documented that 7% of tech companies started in 1980–1998 had an Indian founder. of the nation’s tech and engineering firms. population and only 6% of the Silicon Valley high-tech workforce was born in India. &#. from 1995 to 2005. My team also determined that in this period, Indians started 6.7%

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Among Microsoft’s 20 worldwide R&D centers, there are only three “strategic centers”: in India, China, and Israel.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

India’s economy is lucrative to say the least. The ever-increasing volume of foreign investments in India represents the main monetary source for economic development. The ever-increasing volume of foreign investments in India represents the main monetary source for economic development.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

And this was at a prestigious engineering school. My parents did not wish to see me as struggling artists and thus I was enrolled in Bachelor of Business course in Australia. The professor would write on something that resembled a whiteboard. You couldn’t read it. You couldn’t even hear him with the people talking in front of you.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Another group, launched just before or after 2000, were stable enough to succeed while newer companies like Salesforce (1999), Google (1998), Twitter (2006), and Yelp (2004) have taken off like jackrabbits. Housing is cheap in the Central Valley, but the cost of living is even cheaper in India and Vietnam.

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