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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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.
If you are facing problems with the link then simply copy and paste following link in the browser.
http://www.podtech.net/home/3631/mayfield-funds-yogen-dalal-on-iit-india-and-entrepreneurship
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Really impressive Interview. Mr. Yogan Dalal has mentioned some very important points in the interview, which needs focus for the development in India. At some points, he fell short by underestimating the market.
ReplyDeleteKey Points -
1) Take risks if you have good idea; money will find you by itself if you have good idea
2) Penetration of Internet in India needs focus
3) India has smart engineers
4) You can't do everything in a market. You need to focus on a key area
5) Specialty Retail is not just about opening stores and having goods there but to have a supply chain which is very effective
5) Talked about IPhone changing the traditions, same as Mac to DOS. Everything you read about it is true
Where he made mistakes -
1) Underestimating mobile market in India by saying that India needs more basic features like messaging etc. IPhone needs to be cheaper to sell in India and this is not true at all.