SIPACON 2008 - Free tickets and discount codes

October 17, 2008 · Posted in events · 7 Comments 

The Silicon Valley Indian Professionals Association (SIPA) is organizing their annual event, SIPACON 2008, on November 8th at the HP Auditorium in Palo Alto. The theme of this year’s event is “Social Media & the Enterprise“.

Speakers include:

Ravi Belani (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Justin (Founders Fund), Ross Mayfield (President and co-founder at Socialtext), Andras Boross (CTO, Mobile Clarity), Ramneek Bhasin (CEO, Mobio), Mohan Giridhardas (Senior Partner (Director) at Mckinsey) - full roster can be viewed on their website.

I have two free tickets to give away for the event (regular cost is $39). Leave a comment with your name and the email id (first come first serve basis). Others can avail the tickets at a discounted price of $29, by registering on SIPA’s website and use SIPALIANZ as the promo code.

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Symbiosis Institute B-plan competition “Endeavour”

October 3, 2008 · Posted in events · 4 Comments 

Pune based Symbiosis Institute of Business Management is organizing their B-plan competiton (”Pitch Perfect”) as part of their entrepreneurship event, “Endeavor”.

Agenda of the event is:

  • Registration opens and Invite Business Pitch Presentations:   10th September - 22nd October 2008
  • Announcement of Shortlist -12 Business Pitch Presentations: 7th November 2008
  • 480 seconds presentations by the selected teams at SIBM Campus: 15th November 2008

The top 2 teams will get an opportunity to compete for funding of Rs. 50 million and 30 mins to present before the core team of Seed Fund in Mumbai.
Other VC’s attending the event are NEA-IndoUS Ventures, IndiaCo Ventures Ltd.

Additional info can be found at their website: www.sibm.edu/endeavour08

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Entrepreneurship event - Eureka! 08 at IITB

September 23, 2008 · Posted in Entrepreneurship, events · Comment 

The submission date for IITB’s business plan competition - Eureka ! is fast approaching.

If you are a startup looking for mentoring, incubation and access to funding, I suggest you submit your application to the competition. Total prize money is about Rs 20 lacs, not to mention the other benefits.

Check out their website here.

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Event update: BarCamp Delhi, Startup Fair - IIM K

September 13, 2008 · Posted in events · Comment 

Some events coming up:

BarCamp Delhi:

BarCamp Delhi being held on October 11th and 12th at IIT Delhi, please visit http://wiki.barcampdelhi.com or http://blog.barcampdelhi.com for additional details.

Startup Fair at IIM K:

E-Cell at IIM Kozhikode fosters entrepreneurship and encourages students to build on their original ideas and business-plans. In the same spirit, IIMK E-cell organizes its first ever ‘Startup Fair’ scheduled to be held at the picturesque IIM Kozhikode campus on  October 4 and 5, 2008.

For details, please visit http://sites.google.com/site/iimkstartupfair/

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