TieCon Keynote
CNN
Google is a great search engine, if what you want is a list of webpages. But if you want a list of people, Spock may be the answer. Launching by the time this issue hits newsstands, Spock is the brainchild of former Clearstone Ventures partner Jaideep Singh. Click to read the full article.
CNBC
CNBC Fast Money with Dylan Rataigan. Jaideep Singh is the CEO and Co-Founder, of Spock.com a search application focused on helping users find and discover people. (Spock is funded by Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital Ventures.). He recommends that Yahoo buy MSN. Click to view.
BusinessWeek
Mr. Jaideep Singh was a Co- Founder of Spock Networks, Inc. (Alternate Name: SPOCK) and served as its Chief Executive. Prior to SPOCK, Mr. Singh was an Early Stage Venture Capitalist at Clearstone Venture Partners. Click to read the full background.
Entrepreneur Magazine
This duo stands apart from the big guys with its people search technology.
Some entrepreneurs may look at an online search market dominated by Google and Yahoo and then look elsewhere on the internet for a startup idea. But other entrepreneurs see opportunity. Spock.com co-founders Jaideep Singh, 40, and Jay Bhatti, 35, are taking on search by intentionally not taking on Google. Click to read full article.
ABC News
InfoWorld
Reuters News
Tech Talk
One of the more talked about valley start-ups in recent months is Spock. Founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, Spock is a people search Web site that aims to be the most comprehensive source of information about just about anyone. Spock crawls the Web looking for information about people famous and non-famous. Click here to see article and video.
Venturebeat
Creating a Killer Team: Looking at the rain outside my posh Sand Hill office, my co-founder Jay Bhatti and I wondered how we could assemble the right team to build the company we had envisioned. Every entrepreneur confronts this challenge. The vision, in my opinion, is the easy part. Getting it done is a lot harder. My experience in venture capital had taught me first-hand that building a market leading company requires a great team and a great company culture. That is what separates winners from also-rans! But it’s also a lot easier said than done. Click here to read the full article.
Web 2.0 Conference on TV
I caught up with Tim O’Reilly CEO of O’Reilly Media at TiECon 2007, where he spoke about Web 2.0 and chaired a panel discussion on Web 2.0 with Navin Ashwin of BitTorrent; Alex Welch of Photobucket and Jaideep Singh of Spock. Click to see Interview.
Lunch 2.0