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Canaan Partners has signed up former Yahoo! India research head Sharad Sharma as its first ‘entrepreneur-in-residence’ (EIR) in the technology space. Sharma will work with the Canaan team, both in India and the US, in developing a startup business model in the cloud computing space. The most famous and successful EIR project out of India [...]

While we wait for Proto.in to get here, HeadStart the other pouplar startup showcase forum India has produced in the last couple of years, makes its Mumbai debut on June 20 — details here. I’m getting to this a bit late. Here’s what to expect at the event: Demo Pits: 20 startups will be present [...]

Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is back with a new business plan contest, a global one in collaboration with Cisco Systems (CISCO), called the DFJ-CISCO Global Business Plan Competition. 16 finalists will be chosen from 10-12 countries and the winner will take home $250,000 in seed stage funding. The contest is specifically aimed at aspiring student [...]

Not in Mumbai yet, but Pune is good enough. Proto.in, the startup showcase in its sixth edition, comes to town on July 25 and nominations are now open — nomination form here. The upcoming edition will be a one-day affair with a Sunday brunch planned for alumni and anyone else who would like to stay [...]