Hi Everyone,
Compared to how things were a few years back, the Startup Community has come together in such a fabulous way. We have OpenCoffee Club meets, Startup Lunches, Startup Saturdays, Mobile Mondays, Barcamps, Ideacamps etc, etc, and the plethora of other activities that organizations such as TiE, NEN, NASSCOM, etc are providing to benefit this [...]

In the two days that make up for the Proto.in fun, the first day is essentially the Fastrack Startup School Sessions that make up for most of the excitement – while the presenters for the second day run their final rehearsals on stage and are getting torn into bits and pieces by mentors who are [...]

From an event planning perspective, the first and foremost major milestones are the dates and the venue. We’ve just about finalized them. We had played a bit of a gamble announcing the dates first and then looking for the venue, but as luck should have it, we’ve managed within the same timelines and have tentatively [...]

1. Startup Lunch Chennai.
After being all around the country, Delhi – Pune – Bangalore, Startup Lunch Chennai is happening this weekend. We have about nine startups and 31 people registered so far, and it does seem promising. I am looking forward to see how it spans out. I am hearing news from bangalore that this [...]

Often we hear talk about the right ecosystem needed for entrepreneurs to thrive and build businesses of the future. However, rarely we ever find any effort made in this regard. In the recent past, only the TiE association has been instrumental in providing a global platform for SMEs to showcase themselves. Thankfully there is a [...]

A set of core team members will be in Delhi on the weekend of the 19th (Saturday) to meet with the group in Delhi, and finalize on the venue and work out the logistics of the upcoming edition of Proto.in.
It’s usually a lot of fun having that first meet, since thats when dreams and aspirations [...]

There is a lot of flurried activity going on within the team as we are fiestily debating the format that we are going to use for the next edition of Proto.in – which is going to be quite an evolved version over what we’ve been doing for the last three editions, and are quite eagerly [...]

Hi Everyone,
Well, as you must be aware, a few weeks ago we announced that we are going to put some of the internet servers to good use to enable real-time communications among those in the startup community. There was a very valid point raised with enough questions flooding my mailbox as to what ‘IRC’ meant [...]