This weekend belongs to the Startup Saturday club — there are four taking place in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. I missed the last one in Mumbai — details here — but the around-the-camp-fire like sessions that bring together entrepreneurs, old and new, investors and others in the startup ecosystem seem to have grown into quite a cult. Why is Delhi missing from the list?
The Mumbai session is being hosted at SP Jain Institute in Andheri West with Kaushal Sarda from Collcraft Technologies and Anand Lunia from Seedfund as speakers. Lunia talks about ‘term sheets’ and what to watch out for in them. Should be interesting particularly now that so many young companies have started getting funded by venture capitalists.
Here’s the agenda/speakers for Startup Saturday in the remaining cities:
- Bangalore: They’re having two startup demos by Must See India and LifeBlob. Also an interactive session with Sharmila Sengupta of Utsav Enterprises (this is yet to be confirmed).
- Hyderabad: Has a startup demo, startup CEO speak and an interactive session with a venture capitalist. Speakers have not been firmed up yet.
- Ahmedabad: Lots of options. Startup demo either by Vikas Sabnani of Firstphera (they claim to make wedding planning easy for you) or Hardik of VMukti and a session on the branding needs of startups by Purple Focus or Mediashala (which is currently being incubated at NID).
Some of the talks scheduled for the other Startup Saturdays seem interesting. A podcast series of the talks will indeed be very helpful for budding entrepreneurs.