In our next Open Coffee Club we're meeting to discuss getting started essentials, laws that impact startups and working with the Pune Open Coffee Club. Essentials for Starting up - Amod Bapat.Amod will walk you through what you need to get going on your venture. The session will be highly interactive with real life business experiences .Amod is a Chartered Accountant from India and also a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) from U.S.A. He has worked in the Audit and Consulting Divisions of…See More

June Software Pvt. Ltd. - a Pune based product startup into making games for children was selected for the Summer 2012 batch of Y Combinator - one of the most prestigious startup incubators in the world.June Software was only the second Indian startup to make the cut to Y Combinator and first startup ever to be selected to the YCombinator & ImagineK12 Program (an highly respected startup incubator for education startups) simultaneously.This event on Saturday includes their Y Combinator and…See More

"POCC Meet: WTF is going on with SMS - Panel Discussion & Product Pitches" In the last few years, SMS was emerging as one of the most important "technologies" in the Indian tech and startup space. With 10x the number of users compared to the internet, SMS was the preferred choice for many startups and businesses to communicate with their customers. However, with the recent TRAI anti-spam regulations, things are looking very murky. Most businesses are not allowed to send SMS via gateways.…See More

"No one told the young guys it couldn’t be done, so they went ahead and did it anyway." Rohan is an entrepreneur and Founder, CEO at Social Web Factory for over 3 years now. I met Rohan first in 2007 when he had just turned 22 years of age. It was impossible to miss the entrepreneurial spark in him. Rohan's journey is a mix of perseverance, patience and hard work. He started Social Web Factory during a time when "Social" was…See More

Local POCC meet at Kothrud.

Just a few startup folks and a little running (not a marathon) on the beautiful lawns at the University. Simple. Take out your running / walking shoes and be there on Sunday.Location: From the main gate, take the first road slightly turning towards the left side. On your right would be the Jogging trek. See you there.See More

Local POCC meet at Kothrud. Agenda: 1. Introductions2. Talk from Sokrati3. Open round / Networking4. Ideas for next meetup See More

Nexus Venture Partners and Pune Open Coffee Club invite you to “Know Your Term Sheet” event in Pune on Dec. 18th, 2010 For most entrepreneurs, once they get a Term sheet from a Venture Fund, analyzing and understanding it often seems challenging. They often are afraid of hidden and complex terms and most of the time do not know whom to talk to. Meet Manoj Gupta, Principal, Nexus Venture Partners, a leading venture capital fund based in Mumbai and Abinash Tripathy, Founder of Infinitely Beta in…See More

Persistent Systems is privileged to host a talk by Sanjay Subhedar at the Dewang Mehta Auditorium on 8th November, 2010. Sanjay Subhedar is the Managing Director and founder of Storm Ventures, a tier-1 venture capital firm in the San Francisco Bay Area for the last 10 years. Before that Sanjay was COO and CFO at E-Tek Dynamics which was acquired by JDS Uniphase in July 2000.Prior to that, Sanjay was the CFO at Stratacom from its inception in January 1986 to July 1996 when it was acquired by…See More

Do you believe that your product startup spends a lot of time and energy in R&D of your product, but very little time on marketing and selling it? If yes, then this session is definitely for you.We are putting together a mentoring session with experts who have "been there, done that" to come and talk to product startups about marketing strategies in the Indian scenario - either B2B or B2C or otherwise. Questions such as:- What are the best ways to market your product, theoretically as well…See More

Do you believe that your product startup spends a lot of time and energy in R&D of your product, but very little time on marketing and selling it? If yes, then this session is definitely for you.We are putting together a mentoring session with experts who have "been there, done that" to come and talk to product startups about marketing strategies in the Indian scenario - either B2B or B2C or otherwise. Questions such as:- What are the best ways to market your product, theoretically as well…See More

Do you believe that your product startup spends a lot of time and energy in R&D of your product, but very little time on marketing and selling it? If yes, then this session is definitely for you.We are putting together a mentoring session with experts who have "been there, done that" to come and talk to product startups about marketing strategies in the Indian scenario - either B2B or B2C or otherwise. Questions such as:- What are the best ways to market your product, theoretically as well…See More