Conference for Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneurs - Special Startup Saturday on a Sunday!

Kickstart.in is organizing a full day conference for entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs on Sunday, the 15th of June ‘08 at IIM Bangeluru.

KickStart is a not-for-profit initiative aimed at promoting entrepreneurship. Driven by the popularity and success of Barcamps and Mobile Mondays in Bangeluru where some of the founding members of KickStart have been involved with, KickStart has been founded to support entrepreneurs and promote entrepreneurship.

A lot of entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs want to learn from others who have been there and done that. This conference is called “Special Startup Saturday”, after “Startup Saturday”, a monthly event for entrepreneurs held on the second Saturday of every month.

Special Startup Saturday has been designed with an array of talks and workshops on specific topics which entrepreneurs want to learn about. A number of seasoned entrepreneurs and experts on entrepreneurship have come forward to address these issues. The conference also features an interactive session on writing a business plan.

A list of talks and schedule for the event follows:
Session 1 - Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship
Session 2 - Idea Validation
Session 3 - Business Plan - Basics
Session 4 - Technology and IPR
Session 5 - Product Management and Marketing
Session 6 - Legal aspects of setting up your own company
Session 7 - Selling + How to talk to a VC
Session 8 - Panel Discussion

For further details, please contact-

1. Amit Singh, Kickstart.in - +91 98863 14456 email : amit@kickstart.in
2. Tarun Bansal, Kickstart.in +91 93410 41776 email : tarun.tarunbansal@gmail.com
3. Anand Prakash Jangid +91 98454 67835 email : anandjangid@gmail.com
4. Kunalkant Sen + 91 92410 09423 email : kunalkantsen@gmail.com
5. Rajeev Kumar +91 98861 94776 email : raja.rajeevkumar@gmail.com

There is no Registration Fee. The schedule, agenda and registration details can be found at www.startupsaturday.in

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So many cool products are built in Bangalore and gets rolled out in global markets. Surely you want to meet management of those startups, see their product and learn about new technologies they use.

The SmartTechie is organizing Startup City on Saturday May 24, 2008 at Nimhans Convention Center in Bangalore. This is a technology showcase event wherein cool startups demo the products they are building. There will be over 60 startup companies.

- Watch live product demonstrations
- Get a peek into cutting edge technologies
- Lay hands on the best-of-breed solutions
- Meet young, energetic, passionate geeks
- Experience the culture of innovation
- Learn new technologies

Some of the companies at the Startupcity include:
MetricStream, Sloka Telecom, Sonic Wall, mobisy, Pramati, Yodlee, Netmagic Solutions, SOA Matrix, NetWeb Technologies,Druvaa, Soliton, Axiom DA.
Many more companies will be there.

FEATURING
Visionary Keynotes
In-depth Panel Discussions
Happy Hours
Bird-of-a-Feather Gathering

Some of the speakers include:
Ajit Balakrishnan, founder & CEO, Rediff.com
Sharad Sharma, CEO, Yahoo! India
Paul Murphy, Director of Innovation, Microsoft India
Suresh Vedula, Head - Business Mobility, Nokia India
Rajendra Mishra, Change India Movement
Ashish Gupta, Managing Director, Helion Ventures

There will be exciting sessions on:
From Concept to Success:: Milestones for startups
Where VCs Are Investing? When and How to Raise Money?
Consumers and Business Marketing in High Technology
Startup Essentials
The Social Media Revolution: What’s Ahead

CEO CONCLAVE
Alongside the Startup City exhibition and seminars, we are holding a close-door CEO roundtable, which will be attended by CEOs and Managing Directors of over 150 startups. The roundtable will facilitate an informal discussion amongst the senior management about the best practices of managing a startup in India, what works, what doesn’t work, potential pitfalls and other challenges.

Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Nokia, Amazon & Yahoo! are sponsoring this event.

REGISTER FREE:
http://www.thesmarttechie.com/startupcity

Startups are always a nice place to work in. If you are working in a startup or want to join a startup or launch your own startup, this is an event you shouldn’t be missing.

Are you still using Windows? Time to migrate now! Linux installation fest is happening this weekend in Bangalore. You can cring a blank CD/DVD & take your favorite Linux Distro! It’s not piracy, Linux is a open source free operating system which even you are free to distribute. Linux distros like Ubuntu comes with graphical user interface (GUI) which are very easy to use. Few of graphical effects which are implemented on Windows Vista were there on linux long back!

Here is what happening at fest:

Help you install GNU/Linux on your Laptop/Desktop.

We will show you how to type in Kannada and configure, optimize your system for Kannada.

If you bring an empty CD, we’ll copy your favourite distribution on it for you*. (And this won’t be piracy! You’re also free to distribute those.)

We will answer all your questions related to Kannada on GNU/Linux to the best of our knowledge.

So rush to any stationary shop nearby to get the blank CD/DVDs. Before that register yourself for the event at Habba.in

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Compute & Headstart are twin events organized by ACM Bangalore (kickstart.in) at Bangalore on Jan 18th to 20th, 2008. Compute 2008 focusses on computing in service oriented, autonomic computing in dynamic, high performance environments & HeadStart 2008 is a technology showcase and networking event focussing on consumer services, mobility, enterprise applications and embedded systems.

Info provided by headstart team:

Compute and Headstart are twin events organized by ACM Bangalore/Kickstart.in at Bangalore on Jan 18-20th 2008 at the JN Tata complex, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. This is the first time that such an event is being organized that brings together academia, entrepreneurs and industry under one roof. The 3-day event will feature presentations of new products and research; technology tutorials; panel discussions on segments such as consumer services, mobility, enterprise applications and embedded systems; workshops on how to identify business opportunities, raise money, build products and effectively sell them in the marketplace. You don’t want to miss this event if your passion is to see the latest and most exciting technology coming from various research labs in India, or you are looking to hang up your boots and start a new company.

Compute and HeadStart keynotes include Ram Shriram, one of the first investors in Google; Dr Peter Hofstee, a distinguished research from IBM Research and Dr Umeshwar Dayal from the Intelligent Enterprise Lab, HP Labs, USA. Our panels in each segment includes a number of well-known international researchers, industry leaders and venture capitalists. The workshops will be led by well-known VCs and entrepreneurs and will provide you a chance to interact with them. There are also a set of tutorials on the state-of-art technology covering things like Software services, High performance systems, Search engines, etc.

For more information you can visit: http://www.headstart.in and http://compute.acmbangalore.org

Update:

Event was successful, entire event is covered by Harinath Pudipeddi on his blog Hari Says.