Mahesh Murthy

About Mahesh Murthy

Mahesh Murthy is the founder and CEO of Pinstorm and has 20 years of marketing and communications experience – of which over 10 years are in online marketing. After dropping out of college, Mahesh sold vacuum cleaners from door to door and then found a home in advertising with Grey in India and Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he won international notoriety and awards as a creative director on HP, Microsoft, Unilever, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV - for whom he wrote and directed a spot voted “Asia’s best commercial of the decade”. He then moved to a Silicon Valley firm, CKS Partners (later, USWeb/ CKS) as Creative Director, General Manager and eventually, Partner – where he helped create and launch the first commercial version of Yahoo in 1995 and the “Earth’s biggest bookstore” campaign for Amazon.com in 1997. After a successful NASDAQ IPO for CKS, Mahesh moved to head marketing at iCat, an e-commerce firm in Seattle, which was subsequently acquired by Intel. Mahesh then returned to India to run Channel V, a rival to MTV, till its sale to Newscorp in 2000 and then founded Passionfund to invest in and guide startups. Some of his investees include Geodesic, Compassbox – merged into Careerlauncher, Cypherix, Indiaproperties and Webdunia. Mahesh penned a reasonably infamous column for India’s leading business magazines, Business Today and Businessworld, and is playing the Donald Trump-equivalent role in an Indian rip-off of The Apprentice, involving entrepreneurs and business plans.

Quotes

1. “ We already declined five acquisiton offers. ”

   In Online ad giants spin their web over India

2. “ I meet several young, enthusiastic investors every month and what I find gratifying about them is that despite their passion, they know what they want. The answer is money. And they know how to get there. ”

   In New-generation startups redefine work culture

1. Mentioned In 29 Articles

2. @iamai Digital Marketing: Analog Vs Digital - Digital Media Budgets Are More of Experimentation Budgets For Marketers

   WATBlog.com (Sep 9 2008) Explore Article

   ... digital & We are going to see the marketer asking the question “Why was his ad seen not seen”- Mahesh Murthy, Founder Pinstorm  “Consumer is the new muse for our brand, that should be the approach” - Ch... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Pinstorm   Virgin Mobile   Iamai

3. Seedfund Is Now Targeting $50 Million Fund: Report

   VCCircle (Aug 7 2008) Funding Explore Article

   ..., quoting sources, that Seefund is on its way to raise a $50 million fund. VC Circle reached out to Mahesh Murthy, a partner of Seedfund, for his comments. Murthy expressed ignorance about the report and said he w... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Economic Times   Pravin Gandhi

4. Seedfund Raising $30 Million Fund?

   contentSutra.com (Jul 9 2008) Funding Explore Article

   ...und of $30 million, reports Business Standard, quoting sources. Seedfund, founded by Pravin Gandhi, Mahesh Murthy and Bharati Jacob, had raised about $10-15 million for its first fund. Our mail to Mahesh Murthy to confirm the development is unanswered till the post is written. The investors of Seedfund I in... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Bharati Jacob   Pravin Gandhi   Sridar Iyengar

5. Seedfund Raising $30 Million Fund?

   VCCircle (Jul 9 2008) Funding Explore Article

   ...und of $30 million, reports Business Standard, quoting sources. Seedfund, founded by Pravin Gandhi, Mahesh Murthy and Bharati Jacob, had raised about $10-15 million for its first fund. Our mail to Mahesh Murthy to confirm the development is unanswered till [...] Mumbai-based Seedfund, the early stage venture ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Pravin Gandhi   Sridar Iyengar

6. Events Updates July 08: VAS Asia, Proto.in & Digital Payment Iamai

   WATBlog.com (Jul 2 2008) Explore Article

   ...imony.com * Building Products That People want: Sameer Guglani * The Art of Marketing The Startup : Mahesh Murthy / Kiruba Shankar * Freeconomics: How Long Can Free be Free? * Building a Brand That Never Dies: Nar... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sameer Guglani   Kiruba Shankar   Mahesh Murthy

7. Online ad giants spin their web over India

   The Economic Times (Jun 29 2008) Explore Article

   ...y are also gearing up to the face the challenge. "We already declined five acquisiton offers," says Mahesh Murthy, founder and CEO of Pinstorm, one of Asia’s largest search engine marketing firms. "All these big... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Pinstorm   Amit Tripathi   Sequoia Capital

8. New-generation startups redefine work culture

   tmcnet.com (Jun 27 2008) Explore Article

   ... cash flow analysis and quality control are part of the job and we take that seriously," says Tuli. Mahesh Murthy, managing partner at early stage funding company Seed Fund and founder of Pinstorm says, "Compared ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Kanwaljit Singh   Pinstorm   Apple Inc.

9. Angels build diverse portfolio in first cycle

   livemint.com (Jun 2 2008) Explore Article

   ...h a VC will typically reject. In these cases, we work closely to get their economics right,” says Mahesh Murthy, managing partner, Seedfund. Several angel-backed start-ups have got first round VC funding. Some... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Ram Shriram   Google   Saurabh Srivastava

10. Shine.com Goes Live: Job Matching, Career Advice, Industry Insights

    contentSutra.com (May 9 2008) Explore Article

    ...ch have industry inputs: -- Career Advice features articles from Pervin Malhotra, Amita Virmani and Mahesh Murthy , as well as a poll, and.... Dilbert! -- Industry Insights gives users access to data of over 600 c... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Hindustan Times   Mahesh Murthy   Nikhil Pahwa

11. Lintas And Pinstorm Form The Performance Alliance

    contentSutra.com (Mar 18 2008) Explore Article

    ...vertising to move over from traditional models to a performance driven model in the next 12 months. Mahesh Murthy, founder of Pinstorm estimates that digital advertising was around 4 percent of spends in India las... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Pinstorm   Bajaj Auto   Mahesh Murthy

12. Funding Updates : Seedfund considering investment in Mudranik, UniApply

    WATBlog.com (Feb 26 2008) Explore Article

    ... stage venture fund based in India investments in two of the winning teams - Mudranik and UniApply. Mahesh Murthy, partner in Seedfund said, “We are keen on both plans, and we are working out terms for funding t... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Jaya Jha   Mahesh Murthy

13. OM Careers Celebrated the Success of World's First Online Marketing ...

    pressbox (Feb 14 2008) Explore Article

    ...250 people from across the nation and few from outside India. 12 online marketing experts including Mahesh Murthy (CEO, Pinstorm), Harish Bahl (CEO, SITG), Vivek Bhargava (CEO, Communicate2), Amar Goel (CEO, Komli... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Pinstorm   Komli   Harish Bahl

14. Digital Summit 2008 (Day-2) // Online gaming will drive the growth of broadband

    Alootechie (Jan 13 2008) Explore Article

    Comment "Online gaming, Multimedia Chat and all data heavy applications will find a proper implementation only when Mobile WiMAX networks are ..." - Amitabh

    ...iness globally by 2011. According to him, search attracts 7-8 per cent of total ad spends in UK.” Mahesh Murthy, managing director, Pinstorm Technologies, focussed on the Indian market. He said, “Search attrac... (Read Full Article)
    

    1 Comment Mentions:   Pinstorm   Vivek Bhargava   Dylan Thwaites

15. OMLogic Sponsored World's First Online Marketing Careers Conference

    pressbox (Jan 11 2008) Explore Article

    pressbox.co.uk - Leading online marketing and branding experts such as Mahesh Murthy (CEO, Pinstorm), Harish Bahl (CEO, SITG), Dylan Thwaites (CEO, Latitude, UK) and Amar Goel (CEO, Ko... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Pinstorm   Komli   Dylan Thwaites

16. Your Search for Online Marketing Career will end here!

    pressbox (Jan 2 2008) Explore Article

    ...rmed their participation as job clinic partners. India's leading online marketing experts including Mahesh Murthy, Vivek Bhargava ... Added: (Fri Jan 04 2008) New Delhi, India (Jan 3, 2008): The beginning of this ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Pinstorm   Komli   Vivek Bhargava

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