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Permalink Reply by Navin Kabra on June 3, 2008 at 10:46am

Alright. Let me chip in with my preferences.

1. Where: Shivajinagar/Aundh/Baner
2. When: Weekday
3. What: Combination. Two talks with time in between for general networking.

Suggestion for a theme/special invitee:
Freeman Murray - Founded and successfully sold a startup. Currently a mentor at IIM-A's iAccelerator program. He is spending a lot of time thinking about creation of a startup mentoring program (like YCombinator), possibly in Pune. He will be in Pune around 13th and 14th. We could have him chair a discussion on whether such a mentoring program would be useful, what entrepreneurs would want out of such a program, etc. If this sounds interesting, let me know in the comments and I can set this up.

Permalink Reply by Santosh on June 3, 2008 at 11:10am

Freeman Murray -
This definitely does sound interesting.

Permalink Reply by Vishwajeet Singh on June 3, 2008 at 11:41am

weekday is not possible for me; or may be for most of working crowd.

So my vote is for weekend.

Freeman Murray- Idea is great to invite him.

Permalink Reply by Vishwajeet Singh on June 3, 2008 at 11:44am

Can we have something related to opensource business model.if some one knows an expert in same.

Permalink Reply by Santosh on June 4, 2008 at 6:48pm

Perhaps you can ping someone from Zmanda to help you there?

Permalink Reply by Navin Kabra on June 3, 2008 at 12:07pm

If we are inviting Freeman Murray, it will have to be on a weekend (or Friday evening) in any case, since he is visiting only for a couple of days on 13th, 14th June.

Also, if this theme (mentoring startups/entrepreneurs in Pune) sounds interesting, I can check with Hemant Joshi of nFactorial to see if he is also available to participate in the mentoring discussion.

I'll wait for a day or two to see if any other suggestions for a theme or special invitee etc. show up on the comments here and then contact Freeman and Hemant and see if they would be willing to participate.

-Navin Kabra
http://punetech.com/

Permalink Reply by Anthony Hsiao on June 3, 2008 at 12:37pm

Ah, that guys sounds interesting, and I would definitly second that!

We at EnTrip have recently teamed up with the Amity Innovation Incubator in Delhi, and part of their mission is to foster EnTrepreneurship (so they are an incubator, but also have government subsidies - so actually not for profit!)

I'm in good terms with the chairman of Amity, i don't know if he had time, but I could always ask if he'd be interested to share his views on fostering entrepreneurship, what the challenges are, and how to form a better ecosystem to match that of Silicon Valley?

btw, i met him at a BarCamp which he hosted, and he's since been in love with the idea of barcamps and startup networks.

My personal thought is that we've all heard enough stories of successful startups, but what would help us all most (long term) is how to create the environment of Silicon valley where the ecosystem is very supportive of startups. EnTrip is staying in Pune btw, because we love it here!

Anthony
www.entrip.com

Permalink Reply by Vishwajeet Singh on June 3, 2008 at 12:47pm

Hi Anthony,

I am smelling something good to come; even you could be a speaker; you spoke pretty good things in wicamp at Wipro pune.

I am in for this; lets go ahead and plan it ASAP.

I fully agree with you we need a ecosystem like silicon valley; that will fasten the process for getting started................as it takes pretty long to find right set of people and getting started and if we can have such a ecosystem in place that will definitely boost it up.

Lets go ahead guys :)

Regards,
Vishwajeet

Permalink Reply by Vishwajeet Singh on June 3, 2008 at 12:48pm

Hi Navin,

Thats really a good idea and I am in with you.............from my side you can go ahead with your plans....................but still as you say lets wait for couple of days.

Good initiative.

Regards,
Vishwajeet Singh

Permalink Reply by freeman murray on June 5, 2008 at 10:49am

Hey Guys,

I'd love to come.
I'll be in Pune from June 12th to 15th tho the 13th im busy.
As Navin mentioned I'm a mentor in the iaccelerator - ciieindia.org
which is based on the ycombinator(.com).

Looking forward .

Freeman

Permalink Reply by Ashish Ghate on June 5, 2008 at 8:42am

Freeman Murray sounds interesting. Mentoring is a very important activity and i am sure many would benefit from this discussion. It could even attract those who are in the process of starting something on their own.

Permalink Reply by theoutlander on June 3, 2008 at 9:59pm

I'm up for this event!!

I've attended StartupSchool this year and am very active on YCombinator. I have friends that are part of the program (iJigg). I'm also working with Beanstockd which is part of the DreamIT Ventures.

My partner and I are thinking about moving to Pune and really love this initiative for Silicon Valley culture!

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