SAN FRANCISCO: The Indian entrepreneur in America - a middle-aged man who runs an IT consulting outfit or a body shop. That person has not disappeared. But it's a stereotype that is now being challenged by a new clutch of entrepreneurs looking beyond the usual realms thatIndian entrepreneurs are identified with.
"A lot of traditionalSilicon Valley industries like semiconductors and networking have matured. Today's Indian entrepreneur is simply where the market is. And that obviously includes social, mobile and cloud," says Vish Mishra, a venture capitalist at ClearStone Ventures and global head of the world's largest entrepreneurial body, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).
While still in his 20s, Aayush Phumbhra started textbook rentalChegg - which in a few years made several acquisitions and is now rumoured to be filing an IPO in the near future. Just six years out of college, Kunal Sarkar created
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