Showing posts with label Interviews with succeful Entrepreneurs. Show all posts
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Jul 20, 2007

Mayfield Fund’s Yogen Dalal on IIT, India and Entrpeneurship

Yogen Dalal is the managing director at Mayfield Fund, in Silicon Valley. In an interview to Kamla Bhatt of "The Kamla Bhatt Show" (http://kamlabhattshow.com/pdcst/about), Yogen answers Kamla's tough questions, like what to do if your venture fails, and how to handle failure, generally.

Yogen currently sits on the boards of Affinity Labs, Consorte, Packet Design, PacketHop, Podbridge and Revenue Science. Yogen's past notable investments include Arbor Software, BeVocal, BroadVision, Concur, Nuance, OuterBay, Packet Engines, Snapfish, TIBCO, Vantive and Whistle.

Prior to joining Mayfield, Yogen was a founding member of two successful startups, Claris Corporation and Metaphor Computer Systems. Yogen was also a member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox and a co-author of the TCP Specification while at Stanford University.

Yogen earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where he was recently honored as a Distinguished Alum.

Yogen is a Charter Member of TiE and a board member of the Entrepreneurs Foundation. He also serves on the board of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a nationally acclaimed professional non-profit theater company in Ashland, Oregon.

Check out Kamla Bhatt's podcast link to hear his views.

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http://www.podtech.net/home/3631/mayfield-funds-yogen-dalal-on-iit-india-and-entrepreneurship
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