Ravi Swaminathan is president of Hewlett Packard's Personal Systems Group for India. He has countrywide responsibility for the entire range of consumer and commercial PCs, laptops, workstations and the emerging range of personal access devices including handhelds.Ravi joined Compaq in 1995 and started the consumer PC business in India. He was subsequently promoted in 1997 as the director for the consumer products for South Asia. In 2001, he was appointed to head the newly formed Access Divisio...
Will an Indian clone of an international hit take off in India? That's what we ask MeraVideo.com's founder, Kanwaldeep Kalsi whose site is a direct clone of YouTube.com.MeraVideo was recently in the news for being close to signing up venture funding of $1.5 million. We ask Kanwaldeep about his company's revenue model and its chances of success.Kalsi is an IIT Delhi graduate and has eight years of experience in managing projects of approximately $30M in the United States and India, in a broad r...
John Buckman is a serial entrepreneur, a musician, a marketeer and an open media evengelist, but he's better known as the CEO of Magnatune, an indpendent, profitable online record label whose tagline closely matches that of Google's: "We are not evil."Ask any musician and he'll tell you about the unfair treatment and high-handedness of big record labels. They always call the shots and take most of the revenues. John Buckman saw an opportunity here. He created an artist-friendly label that not ...