Startup Saturday Bangalore’s Agenda in March : The Wealth in Health

The March edition of Startup Saturday Bangalore is going to witness an amalgamation of technology in the mobile space with that in the Healthcare space.
Numo Solutions, a Bangalore based Mobile VAS company will demo its “Health Alert System” branded as Vaccimo. The key word is ‘care’: In today’s world of break-neck speed, Vaccimo enables Doctors and [...]

A Round up of Startup Saturdays in February

Entrepreneurship witnessed a new bloom this Valentines Day with a large number of entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs turning up for Startup Saturdays, held across 5 Indian cities namely: Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi and now Kolkata. Held on the 2nd Saturday of every month, Startup Saturdays are events organized by the HeadStart Foundation, to facilitate networking [...]

Kreeo, MoovieShoovie, TringMe @Startup Saturday Bangalore

The North Pagola at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) witnessed the first anniversary edition of Startup Saturday on 14th February. It has been one year at Bangalore since the first Startup Saturday which has graduated from a startup bug affected techies to a meeting ground of entrepreneurs, investors, industry folks and developers. There [...]

Kolkata, Welcome to the HeadStart Network !

We are pleased to announce Startup Saturday February, happening on the 14th of February across 5 Indian Cities. Startup Saturdays happen on the second Saturday of each month and this Valentine’s Day, Startup Saturday Kolkata is launching.
So, let’s begin with Kolkata:
Kolkata:
At: IIT Kgp Extension Campus, Salt Lake, 3 pm to 6.30 pm
Demoing Company:
Prep-Genie by Shantanu [...]

A preview of Industry-Startup collaboration at Startup Saturday Bangalore

Startup Saturday Bangalore, December was held at a Honeywell India which is just down the road from IIM Bangalore. Harsha Angeri, Director, Strategy & New Initiatives from Honeywell India spoke about the challenges bigger companies face to innovate and explore new areas of growth. The Honeywell program which will be announced shortly alongwith Headstart, will [...]

Startup Saturdays across Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore : Agenda for 13th December 2008

There are four special Startup Saturdays across the country, ie, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, this coming weekend 13th December. Startup Saturdays are monthly meetups organised by the HeadStart Foundation that promote interaction among entrepreneurs, advisors, investors, corporate adopters and professionals.
The agenda for this weekend across the four cities are
1. Bangalore, venue : Honeywell [...]

A round up of Startup Saturday Bangalore, November 08

The November edition of Startup Saturday Bangalore featured a talk by Sharda Balaji of Novojuris on “Legal pitfalls of a startup”. This was followed by the demo of citizenmatters.in by Meera K and Subramaniam Vincent.

Sharda Balaji is the founder and director of Novojuris which provides legal services to startups and entrepreneurs in the technology domain. [...]

A quick catch up on Startup Saturday presenters

We have a really interesting Startup Saturday coming up in Mumbai this weekend on the 8th. IndusGeeks, a very exciting company offering virtual reality experience solutions and O’Cricket, a company doing something very intriguing relating to cricket are presenting. We are looking forward to their 3D demos and will post them here as soon as [...]

Emerging services based business models @Startup Saturday Bangalore

Given that we are witnessing slowing growth rates at major IT services companies in India and also given that the market is probably a big no go zone for newer and smaller entrants with no or little differentiation, time is right to take a look at emerging businesses and business models based around services that [...]

Do you really need VC ?

This is a topic most entrepreneurs need to think about when they start out building a new business. Not all businesses need a lot of capital, not all businesses have a long gestation period or a long sales cycle and not all businesses even interest VCs at all times. A post by Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder [...]