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.

Making sure that we don’t fail to learn from failure- Startup Saturday Bangalore April 2011

There’s a saying that goes “Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone”. Many people extend this saying to success and failure, downplaying the valuable and irreplaceable learning that comes from Startup Failures. Startup Saturday, Bangalore on 9th April focused on the lessons learnt from Startup Failures, a topic that always generates a lot of keen interest. The event saw around 90 attendees enjoying the enriching, humorous and straight-from-the-heart talks that day. The event started out [...]

Sales and Marketing- Startup Saturday Pune, March 2011

Startup Saturday Pune  in March was on Sales and Marketing, an exciting theme that always brings a lot of insight and learning to everyone who attends. This time we had Mr. Bipin Deshpande from Feet On Street, Mr. Mandar Shinde from Versatilecs.com and Mr. Aditya Mishra, founder of HeadStart, who all have extensive experience and exposure in sales and marketing. Bipin started the presentation, sharing his experience with Xerox. His area of expertise is  selling to enterprise customers. He talked [...]

The First Startup Saturday-Open Meet at Kolkata!

  An awesome networking place! Kolkata is rocking! And the proof was the Open Meet organized by Startup Saturday. It was a huge success! A win-win situation for everyone who was a part of it. As expected, the open meet meant small groups where people discussed things in their own ways. The flow of ideas, thoughts, processes was wonderful to see. One could see the zeal in the eyes of the people, the smile on their faces, and the clarity [...]