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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RCom plans largest wireless network in the world

Reliance Communications has grand plans. The Anil Ambani-led telecommunications major aims to have the single largest wireless network in the world by year-end, covering over 900 million Indians.

The company has more than 1 million retail customers in the United States, the largest for any Indian company across any sector, a media release from RCom said.

RCom has launched virtual international calling and voice content services in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. The company is one of the leading providers of international connectivity and data services to telecom operators, content providers and Internet communities.

• Reliance Communications plans to invest Rs 16,000 crore for network expansion in FY08.
• Company will launch DTH services by end of this year.
• Reliance Communications to spin-out BPO business.
• Reliance Communications to unlock value in Flag Telecom through private placement of equity and international listing of shares before year-end. The company will also unlock value in tower business through placement of minority stake to financial investors.

RCOM undertaking 4 key initiatives for unlocking value this year.

• Unlocking of value in TowerCo through placement of minority stake to financial investors at an advanced stage.
• Expect positive surprise in TowerCo valuation compared to analyst estimates.
• Yipes acquisition to substantially enhance FLAG Telecom valuation.
• Unlocking of value in FLAG Telecom through private placement of equity and/ or international listing of shares before year-end.
  

Further unlocking of value through development of Special Economic Zone at Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge Centre focused on IT and IT-enabled services.

IT/ITES SEZ project already cleared by the GOI's Board of Approvals.
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