Showing posts with label Sanjay Dalal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sanjay Dalal. Show all posts

Monday, March 22, 2010

Where in the world is Sanjay Dalal?


I am excited to share my latest website, www.SanjayDalal.com

Here, you will find a little bit of everything... some personal background, community & professional work, and even some ramblings... Just go here to learn more...

Sincere regards,
Sanjay Dalal, Entrepreneur
Irvine, California
www.SanjayDalal.com

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Perception Is Not Reality - About Sanjay Dalal

I would like to share with you a bit more about me, Sanjay Dalal, and give you some real facts...

1. I am a simple & happy family man, father of two growing children in Irvine, and husband to my wife since 1993 (technically 1992 since we got married in the court). We all moved to Irvine in 2007 from Fremont, CA. I love Turtle Rock, Irvine, where we live. I love my children & wife, relatives, my community, my friends and God. I love peace, happiness and well being for all... For more on my story, go to my website: http://www.sanjaydalal.com

2. I am a software entrepreneur, deeply passionate about collaboration software for social networks. I spend more than 10 hours a day thinking, planning, marketing & growing my latest software launch... oGoing. What's going on? http://www.ogoing.com
Further, I only know about computer software and some computer hardware. I do not have any working or professional knowledge of anything else besides computer software, and that too, mainly collaboration software and services. I do like to teach my children different technologies & always ask them to be curious about the latest cool things including cultures & traditions of their friends & families... just like any parent would do.

3. I launched India Business Network last year (2009) to help grow awareness of Indian professionals & businesses, and also in turn, learn about social networking, and the platform on which India Business Network hosts (Ning). Today, India Business Network has about 4,000 global members. India Business Network is a registered non-profit organization. Go to: http://www.indiabiznet.com to learn more...

4. I have failed many times over as an entrepreneur, including my latest failure... Innovation Index Group that managed Innovation Index Fund in 2008. Innovation Index Fund is closed, and is only supporting remaining 4 investors (May 2010 update - my father is not an investor anymore). All 4 investors are U.S. based, and are all friends based in Orange County & Los Angeles Area (who I have met a few times, and know them on a first name basis). There are no foreign investors, no foreign interest, no partners from any foreign countries / cities such as Dubai, Middle East, Africa, Europe in Innovation Index Fund. I am always learning from the failures such as Innovation Index Group... it only prepares me better for my next startup. Case in point: oGoing :: What's oGoing on? (tm) http://www.ogoing.com

5. Show me the money... First, I was successful in Silicon Valley at two startups that allowed me to be an entrepreneur (from the money I made in Silicon Valley). But I also lost money in the stock market (like everybody else, but probably more than I would like). I make money by selling Business Innovation eBook, Apple Innovation Strategy, Innovation Bootcamp, Internet & Social Media marketing, web & mobile application consulting, and investing in stocks (I enjoy it). This keeps me occupied and very busy all day...

6. I love ABAOC (Asian Business Association of Orange County), and am quite grateful & proud to be a board member. I take this job seriously, and would do everything to make ABAOC shine... this is my commitment to the board. I also love TiE Southern California, Irvine Chamber of Commerce and Dean's Leadership Circle, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California.

7. I am looking for partners for oGoing - Enterprise Social Network... if you or someone you know would like to get on the ground floor of a hot new startup that will potentially be a $100 million plus business in five to ten years, this is your chance. Just ask me for a business plan or executive summary, and I would be happy to share it with you... email me: ceo at innovationmain dot com

I love community development & community service... hence, I am active with my daughter's Turtle Rock School PTA & School Site Council, Rotary Club of Newport-Irvine, and take time to volunteer & promote / donate to charities... I was a basketball coach three times for my son's teams, and an art master for my daughter's class.

In 2005, I found out I had Osteoporosis in my lumbar spine. I have been fighting it since, and have made good progress. I am doing much better now... I started a non-profit in 2007 to raise awareness of this: http://www.osteofoundation.org (you can also read my story there)

Hoping this would clear up any perceptions you may have about me... or not ;-)

Now, let's do some business!!

Sincere regards,
Sanjay Dalal, Entrepreneur
Social Media. Internet. Innovation.

direct: 949-288-6880 (Receptionist: 7 am to 5 pm, M-F)
p.s.: I don't spam w. text, email, voicemail

Monday, January 25, 2010

As Twitter is to consumer, oGoing is to business

"I am excited to launch a new social media communications platform for business users who want to connect, communicate & collaborate with their co-workers, peers, teams, customers, partners & prospects now!" Sanjay Dalal, founder, oGoing. "oGoing provides a robust social networking platform for the Enterprise. As Twitter is to consumer, oGoing is to business"

oGoing connects You with Your co-workers through the exchange of frequent answers to one question: "What's going on?" (What's going on at your work, projects, product launches, deals, partnerships, customer service, group brainstorming, & much more)

oGoing is the most innovative social + business networking service in the marketplace today for sending and sharing real-time updates with your co-workers anywhere in the world!


If you are a business, you want to setup your own oGoing Enterprise Microblogging, Communications & Social Network now. When you setup your business profile on Twitter, Facebook or other social networks:
  • Your business has only one public profile accessible by everyone,
  • You need to setup separate profiles for each employee (outside your control),
  • You cannot have your employees & partners interact privately,
  • You cannot control all your followers and followings,
  • You cannot control and manage your own branding,
  • You cannot send updates to specific people (select employees, partners or customers),
  • You cannot create messages away from your competitor's eyes,
  • You cannot monitor and manage access to all your employees,
  • You cannot create one-to-one critical updates for your key customers or partners,
  • You cannot restrict access for your own employees with a valid company email address,
  • You cannot avoid spammers.

Would you want your business to operate under this public environment?

On oGoing, we setup oGoing for your own business or enterprise with a unique website created just for your business, for example,"mybiz.ogoing.com" which is secured, private & outside the public eyes. At your oGoing Enterprise network, only your business, your employees, your team members can share updates & messages with each other, and even communicate with your customers or partners - privately!! It's your own oGoing microblogging, communications & social network where you can brand it, customize it, monitor it, and manage it...

Imagine your sales leaders sharing updates with their team members, your marketing team sharing the latest news about your product launch, your CEO sharing the company vision & highlights with all employees (or a select few), your customer service team hand-holding their own customers, your business development team working hand-in-hand with your partners, and more. oGoing provides your own oGoing Enterprise platform to make all this happen...

Request your oGoing Enterprise Microblogging & Communications Social Network for a free trial for 60 days. Request your oGoing Enterprise.

oGoing - What's going on? Stay in touch. Join the conversation.

oGoing Features

oGoing provides a social media communications & delivery platform for sharing information in real-time.

If you already have a Twitter account, that's Great! On oGoing, you can share all your Twitter updates with your oGoing friends. oGoing has also launched Facebook integration, and APIs to allow for integrating oGoing with your business applications.

On oGoing, every user can setup their own unique profile beginning with user name, location, email, brief bio, website, photograph, and key information about your profession. Once you have setup your profile, you can then begin sharing updates with your followers - your co-workers, partners, customers & more. You can invite new co-workers to join oGoing as well.

But wait, there's more... On oGoing, you can setup multiple accounts with various user names, and link them together! Imagine a Sales executive setting up multiple accounts based on geography or vertical markets. Each account relates to specific sales teams working in their territories. This way, you can send updates to all your followers on all accounts at once, or choose which specific accounts to send updates to...

When you have that really long URL to share, and it takes up all the space in the update area... no more!! On oGoing, you can attach your URL separately (long or short), and it will appear on your update... and you still have all the space you need to write your update!!

oGoing even allows you to share the updates you love the most from your co-workers (or your own), and even share updates you like the most with your co-workers. You can easily track the most shared updates, most liked updates, and the most talked about updates...

On oGoing, you can immediately follow your followers automatically, and even send an automatic personalized message to your followers as they begin to follow you... besides, you can send direct messages to all your followers. Built-in messaging is a key feature of oGoing.

But what if I want to send my updates to my specific peers only, and don't want the rest of my followers to see them... no problem! On oGoing, you can include your special peers in your own Group... so the next time you have something important to share, only let your special co-worker friends on your Group know about this!

oGoing For Business

On oGoing, we setup oGoing for your own business with a unique website created just for your business, for example,"mybiz.ogoing.com". At your oGoing For Business website, only your business, your employees, your team members can share updates with each other, or share updates with your customers or partners - privately, or publicly!! It's your own oGoing portal where you can brand it, customize it, monitor it, and manage it... Imagine your sales leaders sharing updates with their team members, your marketing team sharing the latest news about your product launch, your CEO sharing the company vision & highlights, your customer service team hand-holding their customers, your business development team working hand-in-hand with your partners, and more. oGoing provides your own oGoing For Business portal to make all this happen...

Request your oGoing Enterprise Microblogging & Communications Social Network for a free trial for 60 days. Request your oGoing Enterprise.

oGoing Team

oGoing is founded by Sanjay Dalal, serial entrepreneur & innovator, and a silicon valley veteran. oGoing Engineers have been working hard to bring oGoing to you (and are working round the clock to bring you oGoing)... Contact Us if you are interested in joining oGoing Team.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

oGoing is Live! Introducing oGoing : "Twitter for Enterprise"

"oGoing is Live! I am excited to launch a brand new social + business networking service for business users who want to connect, communicate & collaborate with their co-workers, peers, teams, customers, partners & prospects now!" Sanjay Dalal, founder, oGoing. "oGoing provides a robust social networking platform for the Enterprise."

oGoing connects You with Your co-workers through the exchange of frequent answers to one question: "What's going on?" In real-time!

oGoing is the most innovative social + business networking service in the marketplace today for sending and sharing real-time updates with your co-workers worldwide now!

Using oGoing, you can update, reply and share with co-workers frequent answers to one question: "What's going on?" oGoing provides a social + business media platform wherein you and your co-workers talk about what's going on in their work, projects, deals and more...in real-time.

oGoing - What's going on? Stay in touch. Join the conversation.

oGoing Features

Go to: http://www.ogoing.com to sign up and get started today, and join oGoing colleagues from all over the world, and begin sharing your updates now! oGoing provides a delivery platform for sharing information in real-time.

If you already have a Twitter account, that's Great! On oGoing, you can share all your Twitter updates with your oGoing friends.

But wait, there's more... On oGoing, you can setup multiple accounts with various user names, and link them together! This way, you can send updates to all your followers on all accounts at once, or choose which specific accounts to send updates to...Cool!!

When you have that really long URL to share, and it takes up all the space in the update area... no more!! On oGoing, you can attach your URL separately (long or short), and it will appear on your update... and you still have all the space you need to write your update!! Very cool!!

oGoing even allows you to share the updates you love the most from your co-workers (or your own), and even share updates you like the most with your co-workers. You can easily track the most shared updates, most liked updates, and the most talked about updates... Is that cool or what?

On oGoing, you can immediately follow your followers automatically, and send an automatic personalized message to your followers as they begin to follow you... how cool is that!!

But what if I want to send my updates to my specific peers only, and don't want the rest of my followers to see them... no problem! On oGoing, you can include your peers in your own Group... so the next time you have something important to share, only let your special friends on your Group know about this! Ultra cool!!

oGoing For Business

oGoing is innovative and ready for your business!!

If you are a business, you want to setup your own oGoing Business Portal now. When you setup your business profile on Twitter or other social networks: You cannot control your followers, you cannot control your branding, you cannot keep some of your updates private, you cannot create programs away from your competitor's eyes, you cannot give access to all your employees, you cannot create one-to-one updates for your key customers or partners, you cannot avoid spammers. Would you want your business to operate under this environment?

On oGoing, we setup oGoing for your own business with a unique website created just for your business, for example,"mybiz.ogoing.com". At your oGoing For Business website, only your business, your employees, your team members can share updates with each other, or share updates with your customers or partners - privately, or publicly!! It's your own oGoing portal where you can brand it, customize it, monitor it, and manage it... Imagine your sales leaders sharing updates with their team members, your marketing team sharing the latest news about your product launch, your CEO sharing the company vision & highlights, your customer service team hand-holding their customers, your business development team working hand-in-hand with your partners, and more. oGoing provides your own oGoing For Business portal to make all this happen...

Just go here to request your oGoing For Business Portal for a free trial for 60 days - no strings attached.

Request Business Portal

oGoing Team

oGoing is founded by Sanjay Dalal, serial entrepreneur & innovator, and a silicon valley veteran. oGoing Engineers have been working hard to bring oGoing to you (and are still working as you read this)... Contact Us if you are interested in joining oGoing Team.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Launching oGoing - What's going on?

"If you like Twitter, you will love oGoing," Sanjay Dalal, founder, oGoing.

oGoing connects You with Your friends, family and co-workers through the exchange of frequent answers to one question: "What's going on?" In real-time!

oGoing is the most innovative social networking service in the marketplace today for sending updates to all your friends worldwide now!

You can find all your friends on Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook and Myspace when you join oGoing, and invite them to get started.

Using oGoing, you can keep in touch with your friends, family and co-workers with frequent answers to one question: "What's going on?" oGoing is a social media platform wherein you and your friends, family and co-workers talk about what's going on in their lives, work, family, fun things, anything at all...in real-time. oGoing - What's going on? Stay in touch. Join the conversation.



oGoing For Me

Go to: http://www.ogoing.com to sign up and get started today, and join oGoing friends from all over the world, and begin sharing your updates now!

If you already have a Twitter account, that's Great! On oGoing, you can share all your Twitter updates with your oGoing friends.

But wait, there's more... On oGoing, you can setup multiple accounts with various user names, and link them together! This way, you can send updates to all your followers on all accounts at once, or choose which specific accounts to send updates to...Cool!!

When you have that really long URL to share, and it takes up all the space in the update area... no more!! On oGoing, you can attach your URL separately (long or short), and it will appear on your update... and you still have all the space you need to write your update!! Very cool!!

oGoing even allows you to share the updates you love the most from your friends (or your own), and even share updates you like the most with your friends. You can easily track the most shared updates, most liked updates, and the most talked about updates... Is that cool or what?

On oGoing, you can immediately follow your followers automatically, and send an automatic personalized message to your followers as they begin to follow you... how cool is that!!

But what if I want to send my updates to my special friends only, and don't want the rest of my followers to see them... no problem! On oGoing, you can include your special friends in your own Group... so the next time you are at your favorite restaurant, or doing something spontaneously good, only let your special friends on your Group know about this! Ultra cool!!

oGoing For Business

oGoing is innovative and ready for your business!! Setup oGoing for your own business with a unique website created just for your business... At your oGoing For Business website, only your business, your employees, your team members can all share updates with each other, or share updates with your customers or partners - privately, or publicly!! It's your own oGoing where you can brand it, customize it, and manage it... Just go here to request your oGoing For Business portal for a free trial for 60 days - no strings attached. Request Business Portal

oGoing For Business has all the cool features of oGoing For Me, and then some!!

oGoing Team

oGoing is founded by Sanjay Dalal, serial entrepreneur & innovator, and a silicon valley veteran. oGoing Engineers have been working hard to bring oGoing to you (and are still working as you read this)... Contact Us if you are interested in joining oGoing Team.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Sanjay Dalal introduces "Creativity And Innovation Driving Business - Innovation Index" Blog and 2008 Best Innovation



Sanjay Dalal, Chief Innovator of InnovationMain.com, and writer of this blog on Creativity And Innovation Driving Business - Innovation Index, introduces the 2008 Best Innovator and Innovation - President Barack Obama and his campaign website: My.BarackObama.com. Why was this considered the best innovation? Read Sanjay's blog article on the best innovation and innovator of 2008, and find out why.

Sanjay also talks about his leading Faculty eBook on Creativity And Innovation in Business - best insights, best practices and case studies at the top 50 innovative companies in the world, and invites you to download this eBook. The Faculty eBook and Definitive Guide is used by over 300 leading organizations all over the world.

Finally, Sanjay invites you to check out the Innovation Bootcamp, a series of online engaging workshops that are sure to jumpstart new innovations at your business.

InnovationMain.com - Creativity & Innovation Driving Business:
Address: 8105 Irvine Center Drive, Suite 900, Irvine, CA 92618
Main Phone #: 1-949-288-6880
Contact Sanjay Dalal at: ceo at innovationmain dot com

About InnovationMain.com

The mission of InnovationMain.com - Creativity and Innovation Driving Business is to provide uncommon insights, strategy and solutions with proven processes that drive Creativity and Innovation at your business, create real market growth and success for your products and services, and achieve market leadership. We make innovation a sustainable competitive advantage, help build an innovation factory, effect and manage change and grow your business. We have considerable experience and expertise in working with small, growing and emerging companies, product and marketing departments, and distributed innovation teams.


Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Introductory Remarks by Sanjay Dalal at Design Innovation and Research Conference at University of California, Irvine

November 15, 2008
9:30 AM
University of California, Irvine
CalIt2 Auditorium

The Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine led by Dean Andy Policano boasts the number 1 EMBA program in Southern california. Since Dean Andy assumed the leadership role, the business school's endowment has grown 300%, and the school recently opened doors to its first undergraduate business class. The best part: the undergraduate class was totally oversubscribed - a few thousand applied to get in, and only 100 were admitted. Phenomenal indeed. The business school's mission is to be on the forefront of innovation and collaboration that fuels growth for new leaders. I am Sanjay Dalal, President & Managing Director of Innovation Index Group, and a proud member of the Dean's Leadership Circle at UCI. IIG or Innovation Index Group identifies, analyzes and invests in the most innovative companies in North America using the Innovation Index. I also provide Innovation Consulting and am launching the Innovation Bootcamp in December, 2008.

Professor Alladi, thank you for inviting me to speak at this exclusive Design Innovation and Research Conference. Invited Participants and guests, get ready to be enthralled by distinguished professors, researchers and executives on Design and Innovation from leading Universities and corporations from all over the world. Today's agenda is truly unique, and the wisdom and experiences by these esteemed presenters will prepare you to not only expand your imagination and but also help you lead creatively at your business.

We are in the midst of a global economic recession, one that we have not seen for decades. What started as sub-prime and cDOs quickly spread to banking, finance and real estate, and eventually engulfed in a wild fire most of the industries with it. The stock markets have crashed and have receded back to levels prevalent more than seven or ten years ago. Housing prices have dropped likewise to multi-year lows, and foreclosures are rampant and growing. There is a crisis of confidence. Unemployment is at multi-year highs and consumer spending is shrinking. How does our new president-elect Obama make sense of all these, and create new economic growth and instill confidence among the people? This question is foremost on everyone's mind.

However, behind every challenge lies a new opportunity. And new opportunities are created by you: innovators, entrepreneurs and creative leaders. For instance, the current energy crisis will lead to new forms of energy creation and give rise to alternative energy and Green industry. Higher Gas prices will lead to hybrids and fuel-efficient compacts - and you will be hearing about an innovative new car Nano today. The Financial mess will lead to new regulations that will create a more transparent, dependable, lasting financial system. The Housing chaos will lead to better checks and balances for new loans and result in better loan payers and loan payees. There will be a greater focus on sound, ergonomic and green design, and smart education. Cost-cutting may be the basis for survival in the interim, but in the longer term, the bold companies will invest into new technologies, new models, and new innovations. As a matter of fact, these bold new innovations will create growth and rebuild our economy. Time is the best answer.

So, I want to leave you with one question: What was the best U.S. innovation of 2007? iPhone...it is perhaps the best design innovation product that we have seen in many years. iPhone has changed the mobile industry for the better. iPhone has jettisoned Apple to the number 3 provider of cell phones with revenue of $4.8 billion in about one year. Apple will sell more than 12 million iPhones in 2008. And Apple has created this new revenue despite the struggling economy. This goes to show that if you can make innovative products that are captivating, useful and built with real ingenuity, sky is the limit.

Thank you! And get ready for a great conference.

Learn more about Sanjay Dalal here...

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Calls and Messages from Sanjay Dalal - Innovation Index Group

Dear Friends:

It has come to our attention that calls or messages were/are placed using the cell or office phone numbers of Innovation Index Group - numbers 949-466-8218 or 949-852-3534 (this may have been happening for some time now). We have contacted AT&T for the same, and they have taken some steps so that this should not occur again. Should you receive anonymous calls or messages from Sanjay Dalal's cell phone or office phone of Innovation Index Group, please kindly report this to us so that we can isolate and correct this problem. Suffice it to say, we apologize for the inconvenience caused due to these spurious calls and messages.

Sincere regards,
Sanjay Dalal
President & Managing Director
Innovation Index Group, Inc.

2600 Michelson Drive, Suite 1700
Irvine, CA 92612
Main: 949-852-3534
Cell: 949-466-8218
Fax: 949-861-9320

Active Member of the Irvine Chamber of Commerce
Active Member of Dean's Leadership Circle, The Paul Merage Business School, UC Irvine
Active Member of American Association of Individual Investors

Past performance does not guarantee future results. Refer to Innovation Index Fund Prospects for full details