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Friday, October 17, 2008

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WATBlog Panel in Pictures.. Check them out!

The WATBlog Panel was a resounding success yesterday inspite of the travel issues due to cab and rickshaw strike. We thought we should tell the tale of the panel via pictures before we analyse all that was discussed on this coming monday with a detailed blog post on the panel and its discussion.

So here is the WATBlog Panel in Pictures

The Venue - IIT Bombay, PC Saxena Auditorium

Akamai Marketing Head Bruno Govis Gives his perspective on Digital Media in his keynote

Thats me! Rajiv Dingra  - WATBlog Panel Moderator

Ashish Gupta - Managing Director - Helion Venture Capital

Sateesh Andra - Venture Partner - Draper Fisher Juvertson

Surya Mantha  - CEO - Web18

Suvir Sujan - Nexus India Capital (Ex Co-Founder Baazee.com)

Viraj Malik - Managing Director - Percept Knorigin

The WATBlog Panel in Discussion

Audience Asks Questions To The Panelists

AirMe the iPhone Sponsor gives away the iPhone to the winner of the best question contest!

The dinner begins

Hungry Kya?

I want an iPhone?!

Check out the slideshow of all the pictures here

Hope all those who made it enjoyed the panel and those who couldn’t Im sure these pictures would make them attend the next time around!

Analysis of the WATBlog Panel and insights from it would be posted on monday!

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iXiGo Launches Mobile Version of Travel Search - Looking To Eliminate Other OTA’s

Just recently iXiGo.com had announced its tieup with Ndtv convergence for powering Ndtvtravels.com now iXiGo.com has launched a mobile version of its travel search engine. One can access this on m.ixigo.com

This is a move by iXiGO to tap the busy on the move executive who would be using this service to search for available tickets. iXiGO Mobile has a unique feature of click-to-call booking mechanism which enables people to speak directly with the call centres of respective airlines and hotel booking providers.

On the expansion options of this mobile version iXiGo Founder and CEO Aloke Bajpai said, "Next, we will be actively signing up distribution partners for this service – operators, mobile VAS providers and mobile media companies. They will benefit from a great mobile travel product and quality content, and we will expand our pan-India reach".

iXiGO's direct-booking model by-passes online travel agents (think the yatra’s, cleartrips of the world) and allows users to save booking fees charged by them. This obviously wont go down well with OTA’s who are anyways laying off people and ofcourse are facing a pretty bad recession as well.

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Economic Slowdown May Impact 3G Spectrum Auction?

Well a market crash affects everyone and even though Jet airways may have hived off and then called back its 1900 employees that in no way means that the worst is over yet! Looking at the current market scenario even Minister of Communications and IT seems to be reconsidering whether its the right time for a 3G auction? He said “I have to discuss with the finance minister whether the atmosphere prevailing right now is conducive for an auction”

Though inorder to reaffirm their commitment to rollout 3G he said “But we are not slowing down any action, it is going on”

Now december was to be the time when the global auction of radio spectrum for third-and fourth-generation (3G and 4G) wireless services in india were to take place and it surely would have been a money spinner as the government hoped to raise up to 400 billion rupees ($8.2 billion) for this auction.

Even now the goverment isn’t saying that the auction wont happen but it surely is reconsidering the same given the economic conditions. Though it seems unlikely that the government would allow installment based payments inorder to buy the spectrum as reported by economic times earlier.

Lets wait and watch over the next few days on how the situation changes.

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20% of the World’s Wimax connections to be in India by 2012 - Wimax Laptops Launched

So Wimax Forum which is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization has projected that more than 27.5 million users in India would be users of Wimax and that number puts India as a 20% shareholder of the entire Wimax market the world over!

This means that in the next four years WiMAX would be a $13-billion market. And its not only the wimax forum but the government as well seems to pushing for the roll out of wimax in India. The Government has announced its decision to auction WiMAX spectrum by December this year. Telecom players like Reliance Communications, Tata Communications and State-owned BSNL are looking also looking to aggressively deploy the technology to boost broadband penetration. Infact players have already been testing wimax in certain cities and some have even launched residential wimax in some cities last year itself.

There has been some concern on the high reserve price for wimax spectrum by isp’s which was raised from the earlier Rs. 550 crore to a whopping Rs. 1010 crore last month.

Even though such roll out issues remain that didn’t stop Mr.A Raja Minister of Communications and IT from launching WiMax embedded laptop computers in India. The laptops with Intel chips inside from computer manufacturers such as Lenovo and ASUS.

If you ask me I would say that the wimax connections number is an optimistic figure to say the least. Just to give you an example I applied for reliance wimax for my home connection in mumbai and the person said it will take over a month to get one! When asked why? He said some device wasn’t available! In this kind of state I really doubt 2.5 million connections would be achieved. I guess along with technology customer service is another aspect that needs to improve if connectivity has to grow.

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

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WATBlog Panel Whose attending? Want to attend? & Want A Bus Pick Up?

Attend the WATBlog Panel On "Digital Media in The Next Decade" on 16th October - Register Now!

So by now im hoping all our readers know that we are organising a panel discussion on ‘Digital Media in the Next Decade‘ in collaboration with ECell, IIT Bombay at PCSaxena Auditorium (also know as lecture theatre or LT) today at 5.30pm onwards.

Now inspite of 250 people booking to come for the event we were still getting request for invites so we thought of increasing 50 more seats just hours before the event. So guys you can either register here or you can do an on the spot registration at IIT by showing up before 5:30pm.

With regards to those finding it difficult to travel today as there is some issue with cabs and rickshaw’s we have arranged for a WATBlog bus service (yes Im not kidding!) which will leave from Andheri east station near Better home furniture showroom by 4:15 pm. How to identify the bus? Well it will have a WATBlog banner across both sides of the bus and WATBloggers would be there wearing a WATBlog tshirt!

Now who all are expected to attend the event??? Well check the looong list below.  We would be live tweeting the event on our twitter id and will also make an effort to live blog. The videos will be up on WATShow.com in a week or so.

Attendee’s list

* satish a, sem / seo / smo, percept knorigin

* Annkur P Agarwal, Manager - Ecommerce, Kratee E-commerce and Consulting Ltd

* Gaurav Agarwal, Regional Manager - West, Innoviti

* Allwin Agnel, CEO/Founder, PaGaLGuY.com

* Gunjan Agrawal, CEO, Menu Fry

* Imran Ali, Search Associate, Communicate2

* ashley almeida, Sr. Marketing Manager, Kotak Securites Ltd.

* Leroy Alvares, President, Tribal DDB India

* natasha anand, Manager, Starcom Mediavest

* Aditya Arya

* samyak arya, coo, PollenBrains Advertography

* Rohit Awasthi, Products, PaGaLGuY.com

* Kamal Awatramani, New Media Ad Sales, InfoEdge

* Waqar Azmi, Founder & Ceo, Sutra HR & Sutrajobs.com

* Sudheer Bag, Startup Specialist & Technology Consultant, Self Employed

* rohit bagad, Head Operations - India, Ammas.com Ltd

* Jayesh Bajaj, Director, Investor Box Enterprises

* sudarshan banerjee, Vice President & General Manager, Genesis Advertising

* Ravindra Bawaskar, Senior Software Engineer, Infoedge Ltd (naukri.com)

* Sachin Baxi, Dy Chief Manager, Times Private Treaties

* Purab Singh Bhandari, Sales Exe, Angel Broking

* Kaushik Bhanushali, Co Founder and COO, iRefr.com

* Vikram Bhardwaj, Managing Director, eStats India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi

* Gautam bhatia, Director, Giirayachts

* Kapil Bhatia, Manager Brand Communications, Mudra communications

* Ekalavya Bhattacharya, Product Manager, Contests2win.com

* Amit Bhowmik Bhowmik, CEO, Idea Kinesis

* Aristo Bhupal, Product Manager, Inzane Labs Pvt. Ltd.

* Anish Borkataki, Junior Consultant, Coffee Communication Solutions

* Vishal Borker, CEO, NextBiT Computing Pvt. Ltd.

* KB Bushan, Associate, VFM Associates

* sanjoy chakrabarty, COO, dentsu media

* Ayan Chakraborty, Executive Vice President, Saatchi & Saatchi

* Ravi Chakrapani, Software Developer, Network18

* Shameek Chakravarty, Associate Director, Rediff.com

* Sunil Chandarana, Executive Director, Phi Creative Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

* dipen chaudhary, developer, independent

* Ravi Chettiar, SEM Specialist, AdChakra

* Suresh Chettiar, SEM Manager, Adchakra

* Piyush Chhaperwal, Regional Manager - Ad Sales, GoSindbad & Alootechie

* Rushabh Choksi, Head - SMO Operations, WATConsult

* Parul Choudhary, Assistant Manager, Info Edge India Ltd

* Ashwin Roy Choudhay, Sr-Executive Marketing, NetCORE

* ASHISH D, Project Manager, ebrandz

* Ekta D, Sr. Manager, Percept Knorigin

* pankaj dadhich, Siebel Consultant, IBM

* Nilesh Daine, Manager, 2Wire

* Jaideep Dave, Copy Editor, Web18

* Arunabh Deb, Sr. Mgr Brand Corp, BPCL

* Ashwin Dedhia, Director, MAIA Intelligence

* Suril Desai, Founder, SunAge Consultancy

* Vatsal Desai Desai, CEO, tagg.in

* Deepti Deshmukh, Manager - Client Solutions, EBS Interactive

* Paresh Deshmukh, Specialist, Amas

* Ankur Dholi, Assisstant Manager, Info Edge India Pvt. Ltd.

* Aditya Dipankar, Graphic Designer, PaGaLGuY.com

* Amit Doshi

* Karthikeyan DS, Marketing Manager, Akamai Technologies

* Rinella DSilva, Business Manager, Mindshare

* Pravesh Dudani, Managing partner, Greenhat ventures

* Pritam Dutta, Project Manger-IT, M&M

* Firoz Engineer, Vice President, Globosport Digital (I) Pvt Ltd

* Lynette Fernandes, Business Manager, Mindshare (Group M)

* Harsh Gadia, Director, Smursh Ventures Pvt. Ltd.

* Ankur Gattani, Founder and Director, Onelife KS Pvt. Ltd.

* Abhishek Gaurav, Manager- Media Planning & Buying, DGM India

* bhavana gowda, client servicing, tyroo media

* Maninder Gulati, Director, Onelife KS Pvt. Ltd.

* Karan Gupta, Associate Vice President - Technology & Solutions, Digital Law & Kenneth

* Rahul Gupta, Founder and CEO, Vakow!

* Rajat Gupta, Account Director, Ibibo

* Shivanand Gupta, Business Analyst, 3i-infotech

* Gaurav Gurbaxani, Director, Pragmites Internet Consulting Pvt.Ltd

* Dave Han, Founder, DCH Consulting

* Ali Akbar Hatim J.P., Sr. Manager, HT Media Ltd.

* Aashish I, AVP - Business Development, AdChakra

* imran ilahi, Asst System Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services

* Raghu J, Entrepreneur, FT

* Darshan Jadhav, Internet Marketing Support, Position2

* rajiv Jadhav, Assoc Vice President, Percept Knorigin

* Vaidehi Jagannathan, Asst. Mgr (Brand & PR), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

* Abhishek Jain, software engineer, IBM

* Asit Jain, Manager- Ad Sales, DMCL

* Nikita jain Jain, deputy ceo, interactive media pvt ltd

* PRAMOD JAIN, CEO, Netbiz Systems Pvt Ltd

* vivek jain, Ceo, Interactive media pvt ltd

* Pallavi Jaishankar, Business Analyst, Contests2win.com

* Ajay Jindal, General Manager, Times Private Treaties

* Ankita Joshi, Manager - Global Remittances, TimesofMoney Ltd

* Jayesh Joshi, Creative Consultant, Goldmine Advertising Ltd.

* Pankaj Judge, Trainee, PagalGuy.com

* Dhiraj K, Sr. New Media Designer, Convergys (bangalore)

* Suresh K, Product Manager, ICICI

* sandeep kalidindi, Technology, pagalguy.com

* Rahul Kaloti, VP Strategic Planning, Contract Advertising

* Raj Kanapur, CEO/Co-founder, Cloudtrade India Pvt. Ltd.

* Atul Kapoor, software engineer, http://slashjunk.com/wordpress/

* Harshi Karia, Fox, FoxyMoron

* Sarfaraz Karmale, Media Controller, Digital Direction

* Arundhiti Karnal, Business Development Specialist, Hostway

* Edward Katchira, Web Designer, Design Labs

* Resham Singh Keer, Proprietor, Orion Adeas

* Ketan Khairnar, Programmer, YetToDecideName

* Sohail Khan, National Head- Business Development & Account Mana, DGM India

* Megha Khandelwal, Media Planner & Buyer, Komli Media

* vivek khandelwal, Online Marketeer, SMC

* Abhir Khanna, director, yu-th ad retail ventures pvt ltd

* preetish komath, Manager, ugam interactive

* Mit Koradia, Business Development Specialist, Hostway Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

* Anik Kothari, CEO, ATC Gold Diamond Silver

* Ankesh Kothari, Chief Strategist, NonToxin.com

* sandeep kothari, freelancer, itdoesmatter.com

* Varun Krishna, Senior Manager Direct Marketing, ICICI Prudential

* Vengat Krishnaraj, Associate, MAPE Advisory Group

* Shruti Kulkarni, Account Manager, RMG Connect

* Amit Kumar, Analyst, Kotak Securities

* Kunal Lagwankar, CEO, NOVIX Technologies

* punita lakhani, Media Planner, BC Webwise.com

* Kewal Lohia, Sr. Sales Executive - Key Accounts, Infoedge India Ltd.

* Premlesh Machama, Head Ad Sales, Sify Technologies Ltd

* RAJEEV MAHATMA, ceo, PollenBrains Advertography Private Limited

* Gaurav Mahimkar, Media Operations Executive, Adchakra

* Indranil Maitra, Creative Head, Globosport Digital

* Jay Majithia, consultant, self-employed

* Pravan Malhotra, Senior Investment Officer, IFC

* Etienne Marques, Managing Director, Marques & Lowden

* Amber Rai Marwah, Head Business Development, Techshastra (I) Pvt. Ltd.

* Harsh Maskara, Content Writer, PaGaLGuY.com

* Samrat Mazumdar Mazumdar, Blogger, iTECHNOHOLIC

* Hitesh Mehta, Head - User Experience and Design, People Interactive P Ltd (Shaadi.com Group)

* Rohan Mehta, Business Development Specialist, Affinity

* Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence

* Viraj Mehta, Associate - Online Marketing, People Interactive (I) Pvt Ltd

* Priya Menon, Director, Indipepal

* Hasan Mirza, Head - Internet Sales, Pressmart Media Ltd.

* Zaeem Mirza, Account Manager, Communicate 2

* Aditya Mishra, EIR, TCS

* Dinyar Mistry, Regional Manager- Ad Sales, Naukri.com

* Javed MJ, BA, Slktel Pvt Ltd

* Shilpa Mohta, Asst Mngr - Client Servicing, id8labs

* Hemant Morajkar, Trainee Account Executive, AdfactorsPR Pvt. Ltd.

* Kaushik Mukherjee, Director, AKVENTURE Info

* Shripad Nadkarni, Senior Social Media Marketing, Position2

* Kunal Nagar, Consultant, PwC

* Jayashree nagpal, ASE, TCS

* Milind Naik, Group Head Business Development (Mobility), Network 18

* Nishant Nair, Manager - Paid Search, Communicate2

* sanal nair, Asst Marketing Manager, VGC

* Siddharth Nair, Media Manager, Digital Direction- RKSwamy BBDO

* Supriya Nair, Manager, Digital Initiatives, Verve Magazine

* Rahul Nambiar, Interactive Solutions Architect, Urja Communications

* Bhavna Narula, Account Planner, BC Webwise

* Kartik P, Product Manager, Komli

* Santosh P, Founder, TIAMDA

* Vineet Pabreja, Managing Director, Talent Hill

* aniket palav palav, none, Asit C mehta

* Nidhi Pandey, Billing Solution Design, Tech Mahindra Ltd.

* Nandadeep Pandharkar, Group Vice President, EBS Woldwide Pvt. Ltd

* Apurv Pandit, Content & Mobile, PaGaLGuY.com

* Sumeet Pareek, Developer, IMC

* Netra Parikh, Buz Coordinator, DMI, Pinstorm / DMI

* Chiragkumar Patel, Operations, CLA

* Mohit Patel, Co-Founder, Rocking Pixels Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.

* Alefiya Patharia, Asst. Manager - Business Development, UTV New media

* John Peter, Sales, AG Technologies

* Sameer Pitalwalla, Head - Digital, Zoom Entertainment Network Ltd

* Arun Poojari, Revenue Head, Microsoft Corp (I)

* sandiip Porwal, VIce President - Sales & Marketing, SMSCountry Networks Pvt Ltd

* Chetan Pungaliya, Co-founder & VP Engineering, Kaboodle, Inc.

* Lavin Punjabi, Sr. Business Development Manager, Affinity.com

* Rahul Purohit, ENG, InfoTech

* Makrand Rahane, R & D Technical Associate, BMC Software

* Mr. Kartik Raichura, Founder and CEO, Managementparadise.com

* Nishad Ramachandran, VP & Group Creative Director, iContract

* Viswanath Ramachandran, VP - Engineering, Webaroo

* Murli Ramkrishnan, Director, HIPL, Member of IPGA Ltd ASX listed Company

* Dilip Raut, Writer-Director, FREELANCER

* Siddharth Rawat, Account Executive, Digital Law & Kenneth

* JULIANA REGO, N/a, N/a

* Mohammed Ali Rukadikar, Assistant Director, Freelance

* Romin Rustom, Sr. Account Executive, Digital Law & Kenneth

* Manikandan S T, Founder, Discover Shop.in

* Prashant Sachdev, Founder, To-be-registered

* Akhil Sahgal, Chief Operating Officer, WhereMumbai.com

* Vrushali Samant, Business Stratey & Dev Manager, Communicate2

* Vaibhav Sangavi, Management Trainee, netCORE

* Nirav Sanghavi, Founder, BlogAdda.com

* Rajeev Sathe, Commercial Strategy & Alliances, burrp.com

* Shashank Sathe, CTO & VP, Rajshri Media P. Ltd.

* Wasim Sayed, Business Development Exec, Communicate2

* MAUREEN SCOTT, SR.AE, The PRactice

* Ram Seshan, CTO - Founder, Nautanki.tv Networks Private Limited

* abhishek shah, Manager Advertising Network, Tyroo Media

* bhavesh shah, Client Servicing, Tyroo Media

* Deepesh Shah, Vice President - Marketing, Globosport Digital

* Deven Shah, Business Head, Money Mentor

* Jigna Shah, Investment Banker, Asit C. Mehta

* Jinesh Shah, VP, Nexus India Capital

* Malay Shah, Online Promotion Executive, Phi Creative Solutions Pvt Ltd

* Nishit Shah, System Admin, Directi

* Ronak Shah, Freelance Web Content Professional, None

* Shreepal Shah, CEO, Whitecity Developments Pte Ltd.

* vimal shah, Founder, Animedia Interactive

* Rizwan Shaikh, SEM/SEO Manager, id8labs

* Anand Sharma, Assistant Manager, Kotak Securities Ltd.

* Divya Sharma, Component Architecture, Tech Mahindra Ltd.

* Kunal Sheth, Web Architect, Web18

* Raxit Sheth, Co-Founder, Mobile 4 Mumbai

* Mitul Shingadia, Ass. Manager - Solutions Delivery, EBS Worldwide

* Alokedeep Singh, Head-Online & Loyalty Marketing, ICICI Bank

* Anil Singh, Associate Director SEO, Interactive Avenues

* Daljeet Singh, Marketing, PaGaLGuY.com

* Prashant Singh, Marketing, Naukri.com

* Shalini Singh, Director, Galvanise PR

* Supreet Singh, Founder and CEO, iRefr.com

* Surendra Singh Singh, Marketing Executive, Aqua Logistics

* Abhay Singhal, Co-founder and head, global ad sales, mKhoj

* Arunima Singhdeo, VP, InfoEdge India Ltd.

* Pratik Singla, Consultant, Digital Media, Goldmine Advertising Ltd.

* uma sivakumar, Head Online Media, Tribalddb India

* Sorabh Sodhani, Business Head, MeraSport

* Nithya Srinivasnan, Tech Associate, NetCORE

* Diwakar Srivastava, General Manager, CM

* Prasad Subramanian, Project Manager, Urja Comunications

* sundaramoorthy sundaramoorhy, traders, malar traders

* Sampad Swain, Dy. Manager - New Business Development, Godrej

* Sudhir Syal, Manager - Alliances, Sulekha.com

* Deepak Tahiliani, Manager, Shiksha.com (Info Edge India Ltd)

* Asfaq Tapia, Asst. Manager, Corporate Communications, Pinstorm

* Gautam Thadani, Head - Ad Sales & Affiliation, Ammas.com Ltd

* Jay Thaker, Account Manager, burrp!TV

* Kalpesh Thakkar Thakkar, Business Manager, Mindshare

* Khushbu Thakkar, Manager- Relationships, PaGaLGuY.com

* Vikas Thakker, Director, Dolphin Engineers

* anand Thakur, Ad Sales, Star Interactive

* Smita Thorat, CEO, iProperty.com

* Anupriya Tiwari, Investment Banker, Asit C Mehta

* Suyash Trivedi, Red Panda

* Rajiv Unnikrishnan Unnikrishnan, Founder & CEO, Adhysteria.com

* Ramani V, Vice Chairman & MD, Connecturf India Pvt. Ltd

* Vamsi Vanka, Business Head, EBS Interactive

* Ranjan Varma, Editor, Personal Finance 2.01

* satish vijaykumar, Mgr - Biz Dev, Activemedia Tech

* Amit K Walinjkar, A.V.P - India Business, EBS Worldwide Services P. Ltd.

* Sahil Zafar, Business Development Manager, Komli

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Matrimony Wars Continue: Shaadi & BharatMatrimony Launch Personalised Services On The Same Day!

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We had earlier blogged about how the DTH platform had become a battle platform for the two leading matrimony players shaadi and bharatmatrimony who had tied up with two leading DTH players and announced their tie ups on the same day. I am not sure what’s cooking between Bharatmatrimony and Shaadi but they seem to be aping each other so fast that its difficult to tell who copied whom!!

Infact their latest feature release was announced on the same day and press releases landed in my inbox minutes after each other! I have a recommendation I feel if there are going to ape each other so much its better to do a joint release instead! ;)

Well jokes apart here is what both bharatmatrimony and shaadi.com have launched a personalised assisted matrimony services for busy professionals i.e. a call centre for matrimony services. So busy professionals can talk a matrimony personal assistant via phone who can help prospective bride/grooms find the ideal partner.

What are they calling this service?

While Shaadi.com is calling this Sapphire – an Assisted Matrimonial Service while Bharatmatrimony is calling it BM Privilege.

Is there any difference between the two services?

Well Ill let their press releases do the talking here check Bharatmatrimony’s release and compare it to Shaadi’s release. Lets play spot the difference between them.. Any one?

Why this move of going in call centre mode?

Well for starters this is a paid service.  And by the cost mentioned in one of the releases bharatmatrimony seems to be charging Rs 8650 for 3 months for this service as an inaugral offer. Even if 10000 users subscribe to the 3 month package over a peroid of the next year that would mean 8.5 crore in revenue. Though honestly I see this as a tough sell and would be surprised if more than 1000-2000 people subscribe as offline marriage bureau’s charge far lesser.

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Introducing The Panelists Of the WATBlog Panel

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Well the WATBlog Panel discussion on “Digital Media in the Next Decade” is just 3 days away happening on the 16th of October and just last week we had to increase the seats from 200 to 220 due to extra demand! Also as the event nears we thought it was the right time to introduce our readers on who are the final panelists for this panel discussion so that they can participate via comments and by emailing us on info at watblog dot com with their questions.

digital media in the next decade

Here are the names & profiles  of the panelists (in alphabetical order)

ashish guptaAshish Gupta Managing Director - Helion Ventures

Ashish is a co-founder of Helion and serves on the boards of Anantara, Jigrahak Mobility, Kirusa, Komli, MuSigma, Naukri, and Virtual Synaptics. He has invested in over 35 companies in the US and in India. His investments include Daksh (IBM), Odesk, Obongo (AOL), Speedera (Akamai), Make My Trip, Merittrac, and Kaboodle (Hearst). Ashish co-founded and helped grow two successful companies; Tavant Technologies and Junglee (Amazon.com) that pioneered comparison shopping on the internet.

Ashish has worked at Woodside Fund, Amazon.com, Oracle Corporation, and IBM Research. He has to his credit several patents, international publications, and a book by MIT press. He is a Kauffman fellow, the world’s leading venture education program.

He also holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from IIT Kanpur, where he was awarded the President’s Gold medal.

sateesh andraSateesh Andra - Venture Partner, Draper Fisher Juvertson

Sateesh Andra is a Venture Partner at DFJ India.  He currently is on the board of directors at MetroMela, mGinger and Pressmart, and is a board observer for Cleartrip.   With hands-on start-up experience and in-depth knowledge of the dynamics of VC funding, he has effectively leveraged India to create technology products for global markets.

Sateesh started his Silicon Valley career in the early nineties and has an extensive background in general management, marketing, product strategy, and technology development.

Prior to DFJ, Sateesh was the founder and CEO of Euclid Software, a leader in the IT Governance space.  Previously he has also served in product marketing and engineering leadership roles at Tsqware (Conexant), LSI Logic, VLSI Technology (Philips), and Wipro.

He holds U.S. patents in Communications and Networking and has published several articles about Business - IT Alignment.  He is actively involved with TiE-ISB Connect, an annual networking event for entrepreneurs and investors.

Sateesh holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.

Surya Mantha - CEO - Web 18

Surya Mantha, 44 years, is the Chief Executive Officer of Web18, Network18’s Web arm. He has 16 years of experience that spans business management, consulting, product and service development, product management and marketing across range of business and consumer software, hardware and service companies.

In his last job he was the Sr.Vice President - Interactive Services for Sify India. Prior to that he has worked for Real Networks PTR (a leading management consulting firm) in US and wth Xerox Corp US.

He is a Btech from IIT kanpur, has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Utah  & an MBA from University of Rochester, New York.

suvir sujanSuvir Sujan - Nexus India Capital

Prior to Nexus, Suvir was Co-founder and Co-CEO of Baazee.com, the leading online marketplace in India that merged with eBay in 2004 to form eBay India. Post the merger, Suvir was Country Manager, eBay India and Regional Director, Asia Pacific, PayPal. Suvir also has experience in Management Consulting at the Boston Consulting Group and in Engineering and Product Marketing at Nortel Networks.

Suvir has an MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was the Co-President of the South Asian Business Association and a BS in Electrical Engineering (High Distinction) from the University of Maryland at College Park where he was voted Outstanding Senior of the Year. He is a charter member of the Internet and Mobile Association of India and an active mentor to several entrepreneurs across the Internet, Wireless and Retail in India. He is also an angel investor and board advisor to guruji.com (Online Search) and Pangea3 (Legal Outsourcing). He also sits on the board of the US-India Venture Capital Association.

His current investments include Dimdim.com, Komli.com and MapmyIndia.com

Viraj Malik - Managing Director & CEO - Percept Knorigin

Viraj is M.D and CEO of Percept Knorigin, A full service digital agency. Percept Knorigin also incubated Adchakra Ad network focussed on aggregating quality web and mobile publishers and offer media planning and buying services to clients.

Viraj started his career with percept by starting an online advertising division in 1996 after finishing his mechanical engineering from MIT, Manipal.

He moved on in 1998 and played a key role in setting up commercial internet datacenter ventures in India with Global Telesystems and Enron.

His last assignment was with Infosys where he headed business development and led key client engagements for Infosys in the European & US markets for IT outsourcing business and was based in London and New York for the last 5 years.  He is now based in Bangalore and is passionate about bringing brand advertisers to digital media.

I think we have got an amazing mix in the panelists from the backgrounds of Venture capital to last decade entrepreneurs to Ceo’s representing TV media companies who have ventured online to traditional agencies who have launched a digital arms. Im sure this is going to be one exciting panel which will bring different viewpoints from different but really experience people on the same platform.

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Exclusive Interview with Tim Draper Of Draper Fisher Juvertson On Global Slowdown, India Impact & Advice To Entrepreneurs

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tim draperWe met Tim Draper the Founder & Managing Director of Draper Fisher Juvertson who was in Mumbai recently. We spoke to him on various issues right from the current economic slowdown to how he viewed the Indian market, his advice to entrepreneurs and Why was he in India?.. and more..

Tim on Global Economic Slowdown

Entrepreneurs Perspective

Tim started with giving us his viewpoint from the entrepreneurs perspective on the global economic slowdown. He felt that this was a great time for entrepreneurs to truely showcase their entrepreneurial skills and be creative enough to make money in this kind of slowdown. He stated that according to him these were the most exciting times for entrepreneurs and they can learn how to manage their cash in a tight manner. He felt that those entrepreneurs who were quick enough to realise that the situation had changed and got out of the initial shock of cash crunch and went to work with a sense of determination would be the ones that would do well.

Global/VC Perspective

Tim stated that Businesses move in cycles and hence this is another cyclical phase in which the markets are slowing down. He said that he wont be surprised if tomorrow the market picks up again and things start looking better than what we expect them to be. He also pointed out that the role of media in today’s day and age was prime in making these slowdown’s or recession seem bigger than it is as all the media talks about it and everyone reads, sees it and reacts. He also felt that due to this high level media exposure the depressions are deeper and the boom periods are over hyped as well.

Tim’s Viewpoint On India

Tim stated that according to him India is a fantastic place to invest right now. He said that a global recession for India means a growth rate of 5%! He said that everyone in India seems to be an entrepreneur and the fact that you have a indigenuous market of 1 billion people makes it even better for entrepreneurs.

He did caution though that US capital being infused by venture capitalists would be squezzed given the US recession though the Indian companies that continue to do well should have little or no impact.

Tim’s Approach/Advice towards companies during this slowdown

He said that cutting down spend wasn’t the solution for all companies. He said that different companies would need to take different approach. Though conserving cash is important for some companies this might be the right time to engage with customers while their competitors are backing off. He stated that the best startup businesses are the one’s that are organically grown and these times are the best times to boot strap. He felt in most cases its usually best to avoid taking venture capital till you can afford to. He also said that if companies find it hard to convince large clients to spend it would be wiser to go after the bottom marketing dollars i.e. smaller clients or smaller deals which are longterm inorder to build cashflow and profitability in these times.

What does Tim Draper Look for in an Entrepreneur?

Tim’s answer to the above question was..

1) Enthusiasm and Singular Approach - The enthusiasm fact is key as an entrepreneur needs to be upbeat about his business whether or no the market, research or competition is or not. Also singular approach which means he should be completely focussed on singular business opportunity with his entire heart and soul.

2) Dedication - Money shouldn’t matter to the entrepreneur what should matter is the realisation of his vision and what he has set out to achieve. Because there will be times when money isn’t there in the business and only real dedication can get such businesses through tough times.

Why is Tim in India?

According to Tim India is the greatest opportunity of the world right now. It has a billion people domestic market, tons of entrepreneurs, a growing economy, english language speaking audience.

He felt that this was the greatest opportunity to bring Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship together.

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