UDAYAN GUPTA is one of the senior most South Asian business journalists in the United States. He is editor of the new "Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories" (Harvard Business School Press, September 2000). Gupta is the founder of biztrail.com, a multimedia news and information publisher. A small-business development and strategy consultant and freelance business journalist, he served as a Senior Special Writer for the Wall Street Journal for over a decade. Gupta was also a Walter Bagehot Fellow in Business & Economics Journalism. Gupta graduated in Economics from Harvard University, then took up filmmaking and film criticism. He is the director of two documentary film portraits and has a Masters in Film from Boston University. Late in the 1970s, Gupta began developing an interest in the new technologies and in the entrepreneurial revolution that was taking place. He started writing for a startup magazine, Venture, and for a number of other national publications. In 1985, he joined the Wall Street Journal to cover venture capital and continued doing so until his departure in 1996. Between 1992 and 1995, The Media Guide recognized Gupta as one of the leading business writers in the U.S. He lives in New York city, with his wife, Kathleen, and son, Arun. To contact Udayan for an interview: Sharon Rice, Harvard Business School Press

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