While most of the people in the Bangalore city were busy preparing for the celebrations of Ganesh Chaturthi, a few enthusiastic entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs were relentlessly heading to the venue of the Startup Saturday meet, this Saturday morning; eagerly waiting to spend the day learning and gaining some valuable insights on “Making Money Online”. How can I make my startup gain more visibility online? How do I earn a good revenue from my blog? Which   online marketing tools can [...]

This Startup Saturday (Pune) was perhaps the most interesting one, since it dealt with funding. One of the most notable aspect of today’s meet was the contribution of audience was as remarkable as that of the dignitaries on the dais.

Many of us entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs have frequently thought about how we can make a difference to the society we live in while at the same time improving our lifestyle through a profitable business. While admittedly all businesses are social in the sense that they create opportunities for employment, improves stakeholder livelihoods, and engages with the community, Social Entrepreneurs are different because their primary motive is social change coupled with income generation. But is that possible? Can we create [...]

Shortly after they presented at Startup Saturday Mumbai, we caught up with Kunal Shah Managing Director, Accelyst Solutions Pvt. Ltd and talked about their new venture Freecharge.in and the mobile VAS industry. What is Freecharge.in in one line? We want to make mobile recharge free by offering equal value back to the customer in the form of different retailers’ coupons. How does the company do that? Freecharge enables the user to recharge his/her mobile phone and make it free. How [...]

We have witnessed various Themes at Startup Saturday. Right from food beverages to the omnipresent IT. Startup Saturday even went ahead to change the track, remove the fuss and highlight the jugadu workshop-wallas or the offline entrepreneurs. The struggle is to present the most effective content for Entrepreneurs, by Entrepreneurs and of Entrepreneurs. The Goal is to be an Outlier among the masses and that was the theme this month. Outlier and Entrepreneur seems to be very synonymous to each [...]

Startup Saturday Pune – August 2010 Today’s Startup saturday was about hiring and retaining talent. It was an interesting group discussion rather than boring lengthy presentation. The discussion was headed by Marcus Hegi of Colayer who spoke about various strategies adopted by Colayer for hiring and retaining talent.

The July edition of Startup Saturday Delhi had three entrepreneurs share their candid and inspiring stories with the audience. The Shullick Hall at the American Center was packed to the brim with avid listeners. In addition, the first open house discussion session was also hosted. Aditya Sahay began with an insightful account of the predecessor to his product RadBox. A graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, he had co-founded the very niche B2B service called ClipWeave in 2009. It offers video indexing and analysis, primarily targeted [...]

The Open House has been a great success at Startup Saturdays across the country. Its a session where the entire audience discusses and shares experience on a pre-decided topic. It brings out multiple points of views and the richness of experience across startups. Entrepreneurs have benefited a lot from such exchanges. Now we are taking Open House to the next level where geographical boundaries don’t matter anymore. Similarly, the restrictions on time are also easy. What matters is sharing experiences and ideas [...]

In all our previous roundups we have used certain adjectives and words to sum up the Startup Saturday experience that we had that month. But this time I believe the only word that fits the experience that the audience might have had is – Shirshasana (a yogic exercise where you stand completely inverted with your heads down and feet in the air). In precise the whole world seems upside down. Why do I tag the experience this way? Well post [...]

With so many unique business models and success stories getting discussed – Social Entrepreneurship seems to be the new gold mine for startups. It has opportunity for new ventures and a clear and measurable social impact. But until recently if you didn’t knew what Social Entrepreneurship is and what it can be, well there were 2 ways to do know about it. The dull way was to Google it up and get confused with so little to learn. Whereas the [...]