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Everything you ever wanted to know about finding a Cofounder

April 25, 2011 1:00 pm

Whether it is to complement your skills or taking the right step in front of a team of VCs, having a co-founder is not an optional alternative for most businesses today. A co-founder can not only be a helping hand but can be a mental support to your dream startup. But is getting a cofounder on board the right decision? Do you really need one, and if yes, what traits should one look for? This and many other relevant questions [...]

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

April 19, 2011 11:51 pm

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

April 19, 2011 11:50 pm

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!

April 19, 2011 11:49 pm

  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 [...]

HeadStart partners with NAVTEQ to organize LBS centric developer events in Bangalore and Delhi

April 9, 2011 12:13 am

HeadStart has partnered with NAVTEQ to organize two exciting developer events focused on Location Based Services. Here is their official press release:- Tap into the global apps opportunity and be part of the location-enabled world NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic, and digital location content enabling navigation, is holding its first Developer Day in India. Learn directly from the experts during this day-long event how to use NAVTEQ® map data and partner APIs, and quickly apply your skills [...]

Happy Birthday – Startup Saturday Kolkata

March 24, 2011 10:19 pm

There were balloons, there were party hats, there was a yummy cake, there was snacks, there were celebrities to cut the cake and above all, there were some amazingly vibrant minds of the age to celebrate it The day could not have been better. Around 50 people turned up to celebrate the event and they all deserve the first applause. It was all the more special for them to take out some of their precious time as India was playing against [...]

Startup Saturday Hyderabad, March 2011

March 16, 2011 12:03 am

(A first person account by Ramesh Loganathan, our champion in Hyderabad) After opening comments, introducing the theme and the program for the day, I invited the first speaker from Hyderabad Angels- Murali, an angel investor with Hyderabad Angels and also Founder of MandavaSuites (and a serial entrepreneur, earlier avatars in tech world). Murali shared an investor viewpoint in terms of what attributes makes good co-founders. From his experiences as a serial entrepreneur and also presently as an angel investor. Good [...]

All About Co-founders, #SSBLR

February 23, 2011 11:24 am

Start-up Saturday is a wonderful initiative from Headstart to foster and develop the spirit of entrepreneurship on a Saturday morning. The meeting conducted on Feb 12’11 was revolving around the theme of co-founders which was held at GINSERV at 10 AM. Jyoti Ramnath, a senior volunteer with Headstart kick-started the meeting by briefing the audience about Start-up Saturday and it’s initiative. She also aligned the meeting to the theme for the event which was all about ‘Co-founders’. She introduced Ms [...]

Education & Technology: Startup Saturday Pune

February 21, 2011 12:53 am

Startup Saturday Pune for February was our biggest ever in the city. The event saw speakers from IndicThreads, Millenium School/ myEshala, NextLeap, Synthesis Solutions & kPoint.It started with Harshad Oak of IndicThreads (http://www.indicthreads.com). IndicThreads organizes tech conferences such as java, cloud computing, mobile computing, etc. As of now it is only within Pune but in long run they want to spread all across India. These conferences are paid and the overall response is good. Harshad used to work for Cognizant before [...]

CorpFest 2011

February 6, 2011 4:42 pm

CorpFest 2011, an Inter Corporate Festival to be held on 12th March, promises to be the ultimate experience for working professionals and is considered as a welcome break from the hectic deadlines and schedules. With competitions like team dance, team-band, painting etc lined up, this event would be a perfect team building experience. You can also catch the Startup  Saturday Bangalore at CorpFest next month. What makes CorpFest Special? Hand-picked food stalls, NGO’s to display their efforts, entrepreneurs to showcase their exciting concepts [...]

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  • Blog Events Startup Saturday Special fever @ Start-up Saturday Mumbai Dec 2011

    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.

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  • Blog Events Startup Saturday

    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 [...]

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  • Blog Events Nasscom Product Conclave Is Back This November

    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!

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  • Blog Entrepreneurship / Ecosystem HeadStart National Spotlight Headstart research on startup trends in India

    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

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  • Blog Events Spotlight Startup Saturday Clean Tech, an untapped golden opportunity which will change the way the world lives. SSMUM, May 2011

    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.

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

    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 [...]

    Read more →
  • Blog Uncategorized Sales and Marketing- Startup Saturday Pune, March 2011

    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 [...]

    Read more →
  • Blog Uncategorized The First Startup Saturday-Open Meet at Kolkata!

    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 [...]

    Read more →