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

What: FREE online round-table by Sramana Mitra through her 1M/1M initiativeWhere: 1A Big conference room.Persistent Systems LimitedBhageerath, Senapati BapatWhen: Thursday, Dec 9 2010 from 8.30 PM to 10.30 PMWhy: 1Mby1M is a great platform to for Pune startups to connect with people globally and get involved with global startups. A lot of people through POCC and PuneTech have attended these roundtables and asked me questions about it. A lot of others would like to pitch but in a private…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

The Pune Open Coffee Club for startups and entrepreneurs meets regularly, first Saturday of every month.4pm to 6pm: Networking with Open Coffee Club members and discussion on how we can use http://punestartups.org for the benefit of the Startup eco-system.I would like to invite you to come down to Grubshup, Law College Road for our September Pune Open Cofffee Club meetup. This meetup will be focused on networking and on discussing on how you would like to see the…See More

The Pune OpenCoffee Club meets regularly on the first Saturday of every month.4pm to 5pm: Cloud apps for your startup5pm to 5.45pm: Introductions to various Pune-based Cloud startups5.45pm to 6pm: An introduction to Grow VC by Satish Kataria.6pm to 7pm: General Networking for attendeesCloud Apps discussion panel* Markus Hegi, Colayer* Basant, Barnali, Colama.net* Anand Agarwal, Nitin Bhide,…See More

Attending Counsels:Kaushik Kute http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kaushik-kute/8/b26/1bbAre the following significant problem areas for your startup?* Non-payment from clients who have already taken delivery (ITES, other domains)* Intellectual Property (trademark violations, copyright enforcement)* Industry Ethics, price cutting by competitors (who then don't deliver quality)Our next meetup is focused on how…See More

USA is still the largest market in the world for IT products. Our next meeting will cover practical advice and challenges around selling in the US.Read PuneTech's coverage of the event.4pm - 5pm: Pune-based tech startups Onion.tv and Dubzer recently presented at the top emerging…See More

We will be having a presentation by Jayesh Baheti covering the following points:.Concept of equity market.Costs and attributes of equity.How equity is relevant for my enterprise?The plan is to give everyone an idea of the basics, so that when we have to deal with these issues [which we all have to do at some point] we at least have an idea about what it is, what it affects and where to go from there.There will also be a Q&A session after the presentation, where Jayesh will be able to answer…See More

"Design is too important to be left to designers " -- Bruce NussbaumDesign thinking is more than just the art of designing a usable interface. Think of it as a skill that can help mold technology in to an agent of change.To help stimulate design thinking a mix of celebrated as well as young design entrepreneurs will share their award winning designs and thinking models with POCC.Satish Gokhale, was recently in the…See More