Celebrating the culmination of a year of amazing work, HeadStarters welcomed 2011, resolving to nurture more startups and inspire more entrepreneurs with the Startup Saturday events. Starting Up @ Startup Saturday Bangalore The January edition of Startup Saturday Bangalore was being telecast by ET Now on its show Starting Up and was based on the theme “Products vs. Services”. The event kicked off with interesting presentations from four entrepreneurs- two with a perspective on products, and two from a services [...]

The words technology and India are now synonymous to the rest of the world. India has proved its mettle time and again when it comes to technology and its application for a better life hood. While we all know this, we are even aware that India still lags behind in this hot market when it comes to establishing successful ventures. With success, India and technology we also associate tags like brain drain and high paying MNC jobs. The Made in [...]

Dear All,

DARE has been our long standing partner in spirit.

We are proud to associate with them for the “DARE Mentoring Program” as their knowledge partner.

The first webinar is on “Writing an effective business plan” by Anurag Gupta. The first webinar is free of cost for you to assess the value of the training. The subsequent two webinars are paid. All HeadStarters are entitled to get a whopping 40% off on the registration.

Photo by Idea go The growth story of India is attracting foreign capital in increasing amounts. Foreign capital is being routed not only through stock markets, but it is also being infused directly into companies. This write-up is intended for venture capitalists which are looking to invest in India and it explains the routes of investment for companies which are not listed on the stock exchanges. A foreigner looking to invest directly into India, who is a venture capitalist has [...]

What better way to start off this spectacular New Year, than with a special Startup Saturday on 8th January. Aside from the usual excitement, something different was in the air at the venue this time – a slight frenzy, a lot more participants and that extra whirl of enthusiasm. Not only did we have an interesting theme “Products vs. Services” for discussion, but we also had the pleasure of being telecast by ET Now on its show Starting Up. There [...]

Often you know that your plan is not to run the company in the long term, but to build it to the point where it can run itself as a self-sustaining profitable business. After this point, you may want to be acquired and ‘cash out’. The startup entrepreneurs and the venture capitalists refer to this as exit plan. If this is the case, there are a few things you will need to keep in mind, as a founder or someone [...]

The month of December brings both endings and beginnings to the forefront, and what a great way to culminate a year of amazing work by HeadStart, with yet another spectacular Startup Saturday in IIM-Bangalore. The event was based on the theme “Scaling a Services Startup”. This was a particularly engaging and active event, with good turn-out in terms of participants, and some fascinating talks and lightning pitches.

In the month of November, HeadStart achieved yet another milestone, that of reaching out to masses and sharing its knowledge with entrepreneurs from different places across the country, even those living in remote areas where there is lack of proper guidance and dearth of much needed inspiration during the startup phase. With the November Startup Saturday event at Mumbai being covered by ET Now, to be aired on its show Starting Up, Headstart is well on its way to create [...]

For all the startup enthusiasts reading the Headstart blog, here is an interesting post about “ The Joys and Sorrows of a Startup” by Shubhra, Alicia and Darth – the founders of a Bangalore based startup Chumbak, that sells innovative souvenir products like fridge magnets, keychains, bags, pens, t- shirts and books, all based on the theme – India. We could not do but cover their post on our site. We found it witty and describing a startup workplace vividly. [...]

Congratulations to the entire Headstarters team for an amazing Startup Saturday event on 13th November! The theme for the Startup Saturday was “Social Media”, yes, everyone’s favourite child The stage was already set by the impressive line-up of speakers, @Gauravonomics, @dina , @MaheshMurthy, @rajivdingra; each, a known name in the Social Media space. This was definitely shaping up to be the Super Bowl of Startup Saturday (title courtesy tweet by @akisaxena) Vinay introduced the Startup Saturday format, by comparing it [...]