Breaking the Borders

Aditya Kothadiya founded Shopalize, which was eventually bought by 24[7], where he now works. Shopalize created the social shopping market, by enabling e-commerce businesses to add social sharing buttons to their products. It helped facilitate a new form of advertising, by allowing the buyer to spread the word about their purchase. His training and degrees...

Today’s guest is Lavesh, the producer of the Learn Bhangra app. Bhangra is a traditional Indian dance which is rapidly growing in popularity as both part of Indian culture and as a fitness craze. If you’ve already seen – or tried – Bhangra, you know it’s a physically demanding dance form, which has led to...

Ashish Baldua is the Executive Director, Project Management at JPMorgan Chase. He co-founded many startups, among them Wowzio and most recently Bloomspot which was acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2013. Ashish grew up in Mumbai, India. After getting his Bachelor’s degree, he moved to the U.S. and earned a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from...

Do you have what it takes to be a lifelong entrepreneur? David Fox does. He has been an entrepreneur since he was ten years old, selling vegetables to neighbors from his backyard garden. Since then, he has continued to dream about and invest in the next thing. David works with Strategic Value Advisors and helps...

Can there be benefits to solitude, strenuous activity, and meditation? Karan Bajaj, author of The Yoga of Max’s Discontent, thinks so! Karan is a New York Times bestselling, multi-faceted author, whose latest novel came out this past May 2016.  He is also Chief Marketing Officer of Aden & Anais. His past work experience includes positions...

“The real impact is making (the product) work for the customer,” Pradeep Padala realized during his research internships with Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. This spurred his transformation from a desire to stay in research to work more directly where he could have “real customer impact”, through entrepreneurship. In late 2014 Pradeep founded ContainerX, which develops...

Purva Gupta is the founder of Lily, which, “helps women discover & buy clothes according to their emotions and perceptions about their own body.” She is a graduate and mentor at The Founder Institute and the Recipient of the Harley Lippman Entrepreneurial Fellowship. She graduated with an MBA and worked in a startup in India...

Today’s guest is Sharib Khan. Sharib is the Co-founder and CEO of TrialX, the patient connection company and Applied Informatics an award winning Healthcare Information Technology solutions company. Built in 2008 as one of the first apps on the Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault platforms, to automatically match patients to clinical trials using personal health...

Aditya Singhal is the co-founder of Transtutors, a leading international online education portal. Imparting education, apart from being a business, is also a passion for Aditya. He is avidly indulged in helping students develop their skills and counsels them for their career aspirations. He is devoted to the social cause of making education available to...

Today’s guest is Dheeraj Pandey, who started from scratch and built a company that is now valued at more than $2 billion. A 2013 Forbes magazine article about Dheeraj says this, “He brings over 14 years of experience working at high-growth enterprise software companies like Aster Data (now Teradata), where he helped build the product...

Zaky Prabowo was born in Indonesia. His Father was in the Air Force and his Mother was a housewife who was also an entrepreneur. His Mother managed the business of a dorm of students for their room rental business. Zaky is the youngest child in his family, and he always felt like he had something...

Nidhi Gupta is the CEO and Co-Founder of SoLo Mob. She started from scratch and grew to over 2 million downloads in a few years. She bootstrapped the company entirely on her own. Today I have her on to talk about how to grow an app completely organically without any outside funding. Nidhi was originally...

Shilpi Sharma is the co-Founder and CEO of Kvantam Inc., a marketing attribution and performance company.  She helps brands understand how their marketing dollars are working and makes sure they are spending on the right things. They start by tying marketing dollars to sales and figuring out where they are getting the most return on...

Sanjiv Gupta is the founder of OpsVeda, a cloud operations software company. He is originally from India and moved all over India because his Father was in the Indian Air Force. He studied engineering in India, and came to the US as an SAP engineer. Sanjiv has been in Silicon Valley for about 20 years...

When you have the “Entrepreneurial Bug”, sometimes your career path can get a little bumpy and it can be the source of conflict with friends and family. Whether you are born with the entrepreneurial bug or whether you cultivated it by exposing yourself to the wonderful adventures of entrepreneurs you have known, the resulting wanderlust...

Ian Balina was born in Uganda and moved to the US when he was 8 yrs old. He has been in the US since that time. Although his family was well off by Ugandan standards, but once they came to the US, his entire family was living off his Father’s student stipend as a PhD....

  Tim Hill is from Australia and comes from over 8 years in advertising and digital agencies including Hoodlum, Reading Room and BMF. He is passionate about data-led marketing and leads product direction and operations at Social Status. He always knew there was a better way to quantify the results you are getting from social...

Murali is the founder of Agile Entrepreneurs where he runs a program called 4 Week Startup (4WS). 4WS teaches entrepreneurs how to validate a product idea in just 4 weeks. Murali was also an active board member of Immigrants’ Support Network (ISN) where he played a pivotal role in lobbying for H1B dual intent law which...

Tomasz Kolodziejak was born in Warsaw, studied in California. For two years he taught Microeconomics as an adjunct professor at San Jose State University, and was the Founder of Polish Government’s initiative in Silicon Valley – Silicon Valley Acceleration Center. Tomasz Co-Founded Inteliclinic, where one of their main products is an intelligent sleep mask called...

He was born in Argentina, and came to the US to play soccer on a scholarship with U of Maine. When he got his business degree, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland and worked for HP. He and his brother started etips.com while he was still in Switzerland in 2009. His mobile app tips earned $1...