Interview with Kamla Bhatt from ‘Kamla Bhatt Show’
Kamla Bhatt would need no introduction to many of you. For the uninitiated, she’s India’s first podcaster and a well known blogger. She produces and hosts the Kamla Bhatt Show and also contributes to the India section on PodTech.net. She recently started foraying into video blogging (3-4 video clips a week) and has also started a travel blog - Ifyougoto. You can read the rest of her bio here.
I have been following her podcasts for quite some time and became more and more intrigued by the wide variety of people she interviews as part of her podcasts. She’s interviewed some prominent personalities such as Shyam Benegal, Vikram Chandra, RK Laxman, Ameen Sayani, Dr. Salman Akhtar, Rakyesh OmPrakash Mehra to name a few. I wanted to know more about how she chooses the subjects, how she got into podcasting and how her podcasting experience has been.
So, without further ado, here’s the interview.
TutorVista CEO interview
TutorVista has been in the news several times lately. Last year they announced $9 million in funding (first $2 million from Sequoia and next $7 million from Lightspeed venture partners). Last month, TutorVista CEO K Ganesh projected online tutoring revenues in India to rise to $2.4 billion in the next three years. Last week, they announced a tie-up with publisher HarperCollins.
Niladri Roy has an interesting interview with K Ganesh on the topic of online tutoring, related obstacles and the future of online tutoring.
Interview with Manish Agrawal and Kartik Jain from Picsquare
Picsquare is an Indian startup offering photo sharing and printing services, which I profiled here.
Here’s an interview with the founders, Manish Agrawal and Kartik Jain.
1. How did Picsquare originate? How did you get the concept behind Picsquare?
Picsquare originated as the need felt by one of its founder when he was in US. There are roughly 20million Indians staying abroad and having connections in India. On many occasions they want to share their life with their loved ones abroad through medium of photographs. Hence Picsquare is providing them a convenient medium of sharing.
Interview with Ruban Phukan, co-founder of Indian job portal Bixee
Bixee is a vertical search engine for jobs in India. Bixee crawls and provides the user a means to search for jobs posted across all the major job portals and job boards in India.
Bixee was founded by Ruban Phukan and Rajesh Warrier - ex-yahooligans from Bangalore, who now call themselves as RHR Networks Pvt. Ltd. They seem to be dabbling in quite a number of things : * PixRat - Bookmark and Tag Photos from the Web * ApnaMarket - Bangalore Classifieds * QuestionBank - Job Interview Questions and Answers
Here’s an interview with Ruban Phukan about Bixee: