Five winning startups could get more than Rs 50 lakh each
Midway into August and still lots more startup networking to come:
OpenCoffee Club: On Sunday, Bangalore OpenCoffee Club meets to celebrate a belated Independence Day. Why doesn’t this chapter have a web page?
NEN Coolest Startups: Don’t miss submitting entry forms to this maiden initiative from NEN. Thirty shortlisted startups will be announced on September 30. The shortlist will be arrived at via a public voting process and an expert panel. Five out of the shortlisted thirty will be chosen winners on December 1and NEN promises the winners business support, publicity and access to funding. Please note: ideas and business plans will not make the criteria. It has to be a business thats already on. And I especially like the fact that the contest looks at non-technology companies in a big way.
BarCamp:BarCamp Bangalore 7 has been tentatively set for August 23-24. There is an interesting discussion ongoing this time as part of the planning process: why take sponsorship money or why refuse if someone offers. The proposal seems to be to make it a self-funded event, which means that participants take care of their own expenses such as lunch. Will that include Internet access as well? And who pays for the rest of the infrastructure — conference facilities and so on? Meanwhile, BarCamp Ahmedabad 2 went by on August 3 and I seem to have missed it completely. But here are the details.
Startup Lunch: Hyderabad gets its first Startup Lunch, a niche networking event from the organizers of Proto.in to help startups with recruitment, on August 23.
Startup Saturday: An informal networking event from the organizers of Kickstart.in, the August sessions got over on August 9. The Mumbai leg saw Seedfund’s Anand Lunia talk about ‘term sheets’. See details of the session and Lunia’s slide presentation here.
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