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Another event round the corner- Headstart 2009

December 25th, 2008

Posted by Headstart

HeadStart is an event for entrepreneurs which marks the culmination of monthly Startup Saturdays across the country. You can get more information about it HeadStart here, and about Startup Saturdays here.
If you are an entrepreneur looking for Funding, we have arranged exclusive 1 to 1 “Meet a VC” slots over the 2 days of the event. Please refer to this blog post to view the names of the VCs along with the times at which they would be available.Please send an email to Vinayak Hegde on vinayak@headstart.in to help him arrange for a 1 to 1 meeting between you and the VC you want to contact. Ideally you should be a startup with a working prototype of your product being demoed at the demo pit as described in the following paragraph.
Besides,If you have built an innovative product/service and would like to demo it (and get feedback, meet prospective customers etc), then we invite you to nominate your startup’s offering by filling up this nomination form. I am sorry about informing you so late, but the last date for nominations is tomorrow, so please send it at the earliest! This is absolutely free of charge.
Lastly, If you want to register for the event, you can do so here. The event fee is about 45$ if you avail the early bird discount. We have tried to keep it as low as possible to enable unfunded entrepreneurs to attend it.
We also have a rich collaboration with Corporates who want to either work with Startups or want to learn how to bring forth innovation/intrapreneurship in their organization. Feel free to connect me [amit@headstart.in] to your company’s decision makers if you feel they would be interested. (We are a not for profit btw)
We are very passionate about building an ecosystem in India where entrepreneurship can thrive. Please help us spread the word by blogging about it or posting the information on relevant mailing lists. Please do drop me a line informing me about the same so that I can thank you personally!

– For Entrepreneurs: www.headstart.in www.startupsaturday.in

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Startup Saturday_12_07_08

July 8th, 2008

The schedule of July edition of Startup Saturday is as follows:
Date: July 12th, 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 10:30 AM – 1 PM
Venue: Indian Institute of BangaloreThe agenda for the meet is as follows
10:30 AM – 11 AM : *DEMO* by Yusuf Motiwala on Tring Me Enterprise Solutions
11 AM -12 pm: *TALK* by Bharti Jacob of Seedfund
12 PM – 1 PM: Networking with Bharti Jacob
Its is a free event hosted by NSRCEL, IIMPlease register at http://startupsaturday.in/index.php?title=Registration

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Events this weekend

June 17th, 2008

“Getting it done…”
How do you translate your idea into reality? How do you inspire your team to have the same passion and get things done on time and well. These experts have been there and done it.
The Panelists for the evening are: Prakash Gurbaxani Founder and CEO of QVC Realty, India’s first venture-funded Real Estate Development Company. Prakash has over 20 years of experience in a wide variety of industries including real estate, construction, BPO and technology. B.S Rao Executive Vice President of FranklinCovey He is a firm believer in the 7 habits of Steven Covey and helps to propagate it. Ravi Narayan Managing Director – Mentor Partners Ravi has over 18 years of management and engineering experience in the corporate & startup companies in the Telecom and IT Industry. On: 19th June 2008 – Thursday At: The Chancery (Lavelle Road) Time: 6:30 PM Onwards Special Entry Fee for BNI MembersRs.200/-Kindly confirm your participation. So we can reserve your seat. Reply to this mail or call us, Selvi # 22996651, 22996654 Email: events@businessgyan.comTo get regular updates on Businessgyan Events and Articles register on http://www.businessgyan.com/ Businessgyan proudly associates with TASMAC – a premier business school offering MBA full/part time programmes validated by the University of Wales, U.K. wales@tasmac.ac.in

OCC regarding Open source/ Social networking on June 21st.
Here are the OCC Special Meet details: Date: 21 June 08 Day: Saturday Time: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Venue: CoreObjects, Brigade MLR, #50, Vani Vilas Road, Opp. National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, Karnataka 560004 Maps: http://tinyurl.com/4hsfc4 (Yahoo map to Vani Vilas Road).

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Special Startup Saturday on a Sunday

June 11th, 2008

Here is an interesting task taken up by a bunch of young people in Bangalore. It is called Startup Saturday apparently held on June 15th which is a Sunday. It consists of interesting panels and speakers coming to give their knowledge and insights about entrepreneurship.
Agenda
09:00 – 09:30 —> Registration and Networking
09:30 – 09:45 —> Introduction to KickStart
09:45 – 10:15 —> Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship
10:15 – 10:45 —> Idea Validation
10:45 – 11:00 —> Q & A
11:00 – 11:30 —> Tea Break
11:30 – 12:30 —> Business Plan – Basics
12:30 – 13:00 —> Exercise on Business Plan
13:00 – 14:00 —> Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 —> Technology and IPR
14:30 – 15:00 —> Product Management and Marketing
15:00 – 15:15 —> Tea Break
15:15 – 15:45 —> Legal aspects of setting up your own company
15:45 – 16:15 —> Selling + How to talk to a VC + Alternate sources of funding
16:15 – 16:30 —> Q & A
16:30 – 18:00 —> Panel Discussion
18:00 – 18:10 —> Valedictory

Sponsors

If anybody is interested to sponsor such an event filled with exburance and energy and provides a platform to network with entrepreneurs from various genre.

For further details, please contact-Amit Singh, Kickstart.in – +91 98863 14456 email : amit@kickstart.inTarun Bansal, Kickstart.in +91 93410 41776 email : tarun.tarunbansal@gmail.comAnand Prakash Jangid +91 98454 67835 email : anandjangid@gmail.comKunalkant Sen + 91 92410 09423 email : kunalkantsen@gmail.comRajeev Kumar +91 98861 94776 email : raja.rajeevkumar@gmail.com

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MotoDev Summit

May 13th, 2008

Hello Mobile Freaks.
Here is some that would interest you all.
Motorola is throwing a full day event at the Leela Palace – “MotoDev Summit”
It has various sessions running all round the day and you can make your choice.
Please find the agenda.

You may register online for this event.
Hope you have fun.

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Coffee Club for Thinkers

May 11th, 2008

Thinking is what triggers an idea that has been dormant in the mind of an entrepreneur. It would be very resourceful if one gets a platform where all the thinking could happen and take it to the next level of an actionable business plan. There is one such forum in Bangalore called Open Coffee Club where thinkers meet up to evolve into entrepreneurs.
This time it was on a Sunday, (May 11, 2008) where Ms.Anjana Vivek kindly came over to the forum to give all the aspiring entrepreneurs gathered at Core Objects an insight about how difficult or easy, is a journey of an entrepreneur.
The participants had a lot of questions about how to finance their startup, attrition of human resources, filing patents, scaling up the business fast, choosing mentors, creative revenue models and many more.
I many interesting startups, enthusiastic entrepreneurs and most of all exciting thinkers.

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Funding, IP & Commercialisation

May 8th, 2008

This is a key topic of discussion for the technology entrepreneurs. Though a technology has been created, the credit of the creation is not always given to the inventor; sometimes it is given to the owner.
Sounds confusing!!!
The inventor of a technology is not always the owner of it, who gains profits out of it. It is the person who patents it.
This was the discussion at IIIT Bangalore which held a one day free workshop on May 8th, 2008 focusing on the topic “Govt Initiatives for Industry Academia Collaboration – Funding, Intellectual Property and Collaboration”.

The workshop opened with the first session on “ GOI Initiatives in Academia Industry Collaboration including entrepreneurship and patent support”, which was addressed by Dr. Garg, Joint Director from Ministry of Communications and Information technology.
Focus points for entrepreneurs while addressing IPRs (Intellectual Property Rights).
1.Require a written IP policy for any process or product to protect innovation within your company.
2.Create an IP Audit before you start a R&D project.
Example: Sasken Communications conducted an IP audit after the R&D project of an anonymous product (which took 2 years to create and incurred Rs.2 crore) and realized that they had infringed 20 patents due to which the product commercialization had to be dismissed.
3.Do IP due diligence – have a checklist.
4.Prioritize patenting needs for budget purpose (cost effective)
5.Look into parameters such as velocity of patenting and patent mapping process.
Challenges faced by entrepreneurs in Patent process
1.Cost involved in IP due diligence is high.
2.IP Infrastructure unavailable.
3.No effective Search system.
GOI Initiatives
1.IPR Promotion Program
2.Trademark Tool: to avoid names with verbal similarities.
3.SIP-EIT for SMEs & Technology Start ups
4.Tide Program
5.Multiplier brand scheme
To know more about these initiatives visit http://www.mit.gov.in/

Session 2 was presented by Mr. Meenakshi Sundaram and Ranjith Menon from IDG Ventures. http://www.idgventures.com/
As VCs they focused on the challenges faced by their entrepreneurs, and how patents helped them.
Note to the entrepreneurs: Find a lawyer who can write your IP covering a broader spectrum to create monopoly.
Do not encourage people as employees to carry IP from one company to another; it is unethical. Have a strong written IP policy in the employee contract.

Later Sunil Maheswari, CEO of Mango Technologies (Incubated out of IIM-B) spoke his journey as an entrepreneur and the importance of patents. He emphasized on the support and encouragement received from the GOI.
http://www.mangotechno.com/

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Where should I go?

May 7th, 2008

Events in May

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Pangea Day

May 4th, 2008

Pangea Day is a global event held on May 10thIST: 11.00 PM to 3.00 AM. It is being celebrated and organised with an objective to remove the differences and borders among people. This is being implemented by hosting 24 films in different languages.
If you also want to be a part of it check out your nearest venue at http://www.pangeaday.org/aboutPangeaDay.php.

Interested souls gather together.

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Startup city Event

May 4th, 2008

This is great opportunity for all VCs and start up firm to know and meet prople from their ecosystem. Thanks to Smart Techie and Silicon India who are hosting a start up show where all start ups would showcase their companies and have a chance to meet few of the top most VCs in the country.
Time: 9.00 AM to 6.00 PM.
Day: May 24, 2008
Venue: Nimhans Covention Center, Bangalore
Registration Free.
To know more visit http://www.thesmarttechie.com/startupcity/

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