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The new face of Women Entrepreneurship (Startup Saturday, June 2010)

By ⋅ June 21, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

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 [...]

Startup Saturday Pune in April 2010 on CleanTech

By ⋅ April 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

This Startup Saturday was turned out to be very interesting for the theme was the clean tech.
So prior to this meet my notion of clean tech was constrained to something like cleaning up Gobar and converting it into clean, odorless and colourless biogas, or harnessing some electricity for street lamps from the scorching heat that [...]

Satisfying our entrepreneurial appetite at Startup Saturday Mumbai (March 2010)

By ⋅ March 25, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Hundreds of Entrepreneurs and aspirants attend Head Start’s Startup Saturday event every month across 6 locations in India. And to satisfy their Entrepreneurial hunger, Head start was back this March with yet another Start up Saturday, aptly themed around “Food and Beverages”.
Things were quite different this month as the regular headstarters got engaged hosting the [...]

A detailed roundup of Feb Startup Saturday, Mumbai Edition

By ⋅ February 25, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Following the tradition of motivating entrepreneurial zeal across this nation, HeadStart hosted the monthly Startup Saturday this month on 13th Feb. The event was attended by 75 people who came from various domains, regions and backgrounds to brain storm in yet another superb confluence that we had.
The event started with a lecture delivered by Mr. [...]

Ecommerce talk at Startup Saturday November (Mumbai)

By ⋅ December 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The topic for Startup Saturday November was Ecommerce / Online Retail in India. We saw a good combination of startups showing their wares, and stalwarts sharing their experiences. We began with a demo of an energy saving app ‘ENPOWER’ by Creative Riot Software. The Creative Riot team has won multiple awards from Microsoft, IIT Bombay, [...]

Startup Saturdays: Think Beyond the Agenda!

By ⋅ August 6, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

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 [...]

Startups in Finance @ Startup Saturday Mumbai, July

By ⋅ July 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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

By ⋅ July 17, 2009 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

Analytics : Theme for Startup Saturday Bangalore on 9th May

By Divyajeevan Sahoo ⋅ May 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Analytics is the focus for the May edition of Startup Saturday Bangalore. We have AnalyticsQuotient and Marketelligent their startups. As always, our team visited them at their premises and talked to them to know the fun in the field of analytics. Analytics as a field is comparatively new in India and the way these folks [...]

HeadStart Network : the Collaboration platform goes live

By Kallol Borah ⋅ March 15, 2009 ⋅ One comment

In the past one and half years, the HeadStart Foundation has organised more than 60 meet ups across many cities and over 10,000 people have attended and interacted at various forums, meetups, talks and conferences. Startup Saturdays have been very popular and continue to attract very good audiences of entrepreneurs and startups despite the economic [...]