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Sachin Bansal, Flipkart Co-founder appointed as Managing Director of Venture Navi Technologies

Our Own Start-up

Sachin Bansal has made several investments into companies and start-ups such as Altico Capital, U Gro Capital, IndoStar Capital, Vogo, Bounce, KrazyBee, Ola, Bansal attended Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and completed a degree in Computer Engineering in 2005.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. As a technologist he felt the US was “ground zero&# for technology innovation.

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

Africa is not known to generate many technology talents – the country is far more prolific in its music, sport and art – but here’s one young African who intends to buck the trend. His first foray into technology was in 1995, when Koutonin, along with a few friends, created one of Togo’s first news website.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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Don’t Be Afraid to Hire Your Critics

Hunter Walker

Facebook’s Head of Product Chris Cox is, gasp, in his 30s and joined Facebook in 2005. Even Zuck turns 30 this year and grew up with a different set of assumptions around connectivity and technology. Stripe’s VP Engineering Marc Hedlund has said “companies develop more antibodies against new kinds of people over time.”

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

Agile VC

In more recent decades, additional technology has come to market to assist drivers. Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California. But these challenges certainly sparked interest in vehicle autonomy.

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