Startup Saturdays: Think Beyond the Agenda!
Headstart Network Foundation
August 6, 2009 7:30 AM
Each month SS has a new theme. For example we had a Special Startup Saturday in April, Entertainment in May, MR and Advertising in June and Finance in July. While all these Startup Saturdays appear to be so different w.r.t the topics discussed, you would be surprised to know that someone like myself who has interest only in e-commerce (which makes the June SS most relevant to me), found all these editions to be equally interesting!
Its true that the technical aspects of different domains will be different, however, we always end up getting lessons about things not restricted to any domain. In the Finance SS, we did not learn only about the technicalities of the domain, but also about the struggles of the entrepreneurs setting up the startup, facing competition from the big names, reaching inflection point, et all. How they raised funding, how they marketed their venture and what has been their learnings in the past few years are also discussed in almost all SS, and there are a lot of unique lessons to be learnt each time.