Startup Saturdays: Think Beyond the Agenda!

Its been a few months since I have been attending Startup Saturdays in Mumbai and its a great feel to be amongst so many aspiring entrepreneurs. Startup Saturday is  like an unconference, with all the healthy discussions and interaction between the speakers and the audience you would expect. However SS is structured wrt to the topics [...]

Laura Parkin: on Entrepreneurship and the Indian Startup Ecosystem

Laura A Parkin is the Executive Director of the Wadhwani Foundation, whose mission is to help individuals achieve economic success. The foundation works in two areas: developing business entrepreneurs, and helping the disabled build livelihoods or achieve gainful employment.

Laura is also the Executive Director and co-founder of the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), the foundation’s flagship [...]

Startups in Finance @ Startup Saturday Mumbai, July

Startup Saturday Mumbai, July ‘09: Finance Vertical:
Startup Saturday July, was the first SS after last month’s mega event, Headstart Summer 2009. Aditya Mishra, Co-Founder and director of the Headstart Network Foundation gave a brief introduction about Headstart, before the event commenced. The topic for this month’s SS was Finance, and we had some exciting startups/speakers present for the [...]

Money in the Entertainment business! Startup Saturday Mumbai, May 2009

The vertical chosen was for Startup Saturday Mumbai, May Edition was Entertainment, and the first presenter was Sunil Nair CEO of nautanki.tv. What is nautanki.tv? When Sunil started telling us about it, the first thing which came to my mind was: Hulu! But as I later found out there are some key differences. The fact [...]

Announcing the winner of Sennheiser earphones

We thank all visitors who tweeted from the HeadStart demo pit and helped us spread the word about the startups who were demoing.
It’s time we announce the winner for the Sennheiser earphones that are up for one lucky winner who used the hashtag #hsspit from the demo-pit!
The cool earphones have been awarded to @s4sukhdeep for [...]

Winners of HeadStart Summer Passes

Thank you all for participating in the twitter contest!!
We received 156 entries in total out of which two win free passes to HeadStart Summer 2009!
The winners are @poojaganeriwala & @irohan!
But, if you did not win, don’t lose heart.
We have a larger prize in store for you. A pair of Sennheiser earphones.
To win these, you will [...]

Win Sennheiser Earphones worth 4k & free passes to HeadStart Summer 2009

HeadStart Summer 2009 is zeroing in!
We would like to give you a chance here to win two free passes to HeadStart Summer 2009 & amazing music-crunchers in the form of Sennheiser LX90 Earphones!
To find out how, read on.
To win a free pass to HeadStart Summer 2009 worth Rs. 750/-, you need to post any one [...]

HeadStart Summer 2009 count down begins

Entrepreneurs from all over the country would come under one roof at HeadStart Summer 2009, some presenting themselves, some guiding the upcoming ones and some taking back invaluable gyaan and shifting gears to get started with their venture.
With close to 2 dozen startups setting up their base, all prepared to convince you why you should [...]

Startup Saturday Bangalore agenda for June

June promises to be a very exciting month. Apart from the Startup Saturdays taking place at all our regular venues across the country on the 13th of June 2009, we also have our bi annual event Headstart Summer 2009 (http://network.headstart.in/projects/headstart2009/project-home) at Mumbai on the 20th of June 2009.

The theme for this edition of Startup [...]

Round up of Startup Saturday Bangalore, May 2009

It was more than a house-full session at the North Pergola, IIMB, this Saturday, with around 110 people coming in for the May ‘09 edition of Startup Saturday Bangalore. The theme being analytics, there was a mix of young and experienced folks, from a variety of fields. The talk began with Anunay [...]