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This year, I completed 3 years with Headstart as a volunteer and its been quite a journey. Over 70 leaders across 9 cities, meeting them as strangers and making lifelong relations, learning the ropes of business, getting into the pulse of the startup community, Headstart has given me a lot. A little past mid-night, today as I reminiscence about the highs and lows of Headstart as a team, it hits me that we have been around for so long, the little [...]

Event round-up – Startup Saturday April

The last Startup Saturday on 14th April turned out to be a success in all the 9 cities. We received a healthy response in terms of audience footfall. With a slew of good speakers in different cities, the event overall was quite a success. Here’s a little bite to whet your appetite in case you’re curious to know what went about in the different cities. Read on:

Five Uncomfortable Lessons from the Silicon Valley Trenches

2012 will be the year of happening for Startup Saturday Ahmedabad. We saw close to 170 registrations this time despite other events making their rounds in the city. We had Mr. Shirish Andhare, a remarkable speaker who taught his class, ” Five uncomfortable lessons from the silicon valley trenches “. Mr. Shirish’s rich experience from the silicon valley backed by his absolutely perfect story weaving skills did the magic for the day.

Special fever @ Start-up Saturday Mumbai Dec 2011

A quick recap of how the Startup Saturday Mumbai team rocked with a Special Event around – Building blocks of business.

Startup Saturday Delhi – November 19th 2011

One more successful session of start-up Saturday Delhi chapter got over today. The session was attended by entrepreneurs, mentors and hopefuls. The theme of the day was sales in start-ups and otherwise. The session kicked off with presentation by Tushar Bhargava of ZNI wireless, not only did Tushar gave some valuable tips on sales from his vast experience as an entrepreneur he also demoed a unique product for managing leads any business environment using a popular Indian habit of ‘miss [...]

Nasscom Product Conclave Is Back This November

HeadStart Network Foundation has partnered with Nasscom Product Conclave once again. As things fall in place for the event in November, Headstart Co-founder Ramesh Loganathan shares his experience with Nasscom Product Conclave. Ramesh has been an active volunteer for Nasscom Product Conclave and who better than him to tell us what to expect this year from Nasscom Product Conclave!

Headstart research on startup trends in India

Headstart Network Foundation (www.headstart.in), the organization behind this blog, is a non-profit organization focused on creation of a startup ecosystem in India. We trust that many of you have benefited through our initiatives, the most notable of them being Startup Saturdays, which are monthly meeting places for entrepreneurs in 9 cities and Headstart events, 4 of which have taken place across Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

Sensing lack of credible data on the trends of entrepreneurship, we have taken on this ambitious project to research about the trends of entrepreneurship in India. The report which, inter alia, will cover top needs of a startup in India and the region-wise trends on technology startups, will be shared freely with participants of this research. It will also be used to

Clean Tech, an untapped golden opportunity which will change the way the world lives. SSMUM, May 2011

Talking about clean tech we start thinking about recycling waste to make something all commend but no one buys. We think about the climate change speeches, NGOs, corporate social responsibility and all. Is there a Business sense to all this? A remote possibility is all we can say. This was about to be tilted head over heels at SSMUM. The speakers talked about why clean tech is a golden opportunity to be grabbed and how innovative solutions are bashing our futile assumptions.