Startup Saturday Pune December 11, 2010

Vishwa writes:

We are happy about the fact that Startup Saturday Pune has completed 1 year. The first startup saturday was organized
along with Bar Camp Pune at Symbiosys Campus, Hinjewadi on Nov 14th, 2009. The event was attended by around 50
people. Post that we have had events in NCL Innovation Center, CMRD and Yashada. We have done events around
companies offering web products, adventure, clean tech, animation, mobile. We have done one event around startups
offering grass root products like beer, laundry and security personal and another one focusing on innovative ways of
funding.

Some of these were well received, while others were dumped but speakers and audience. Like a typical startup, we
had our highs and lows. Today, we are happy with a few satisfied and repeat fellow entrepreneurs, a few fence sitters
and few who have decided they will never attend startup saturday as they have grown up and their startups are
doing well.

The next meet is broadly divided into 2 parts.

Part I :

The first part will be related to early stage financing .........

* Key concepts in customer Development: Minimal Viable Product and Product Market Fit
* Bootstrapping
* Role of revenue and sales pipeline: Sell it before you build it.
* Preparation for Angels and VC's
* Equity or Debt?
* Raise money from VCs or angels?
* How do I find a lead investor?

and will be taken by Samir Patel. He is a serial entrepreneur.

Samir founded SearchForce that helps manage search marketing campaigns in a burgeoning $6 billion yearly
online advertising market with its algorithmic trading platform. At iPIN, later acquired by Valista for $50+ million, he
designed the world’s first open scalable mobile payments platform.

Please visit his profile here ... http://www.linkedin.com/pub/samir-patel/0/964/a98

Part II :

We would like to give an opportunity to all our fellow entrepreneurs to speak. Speak about their ideas and startups,
about entrepreneurship and their experience with Startup Saturday. We are inviting people from the entire pune
startup ecosystem, namely PuneTech, POCC, TiE, NEN, Pune Angels, E cells of colleges, Angel Investors to give a
short talk. If you would like to give a short talk, just write a mail to us and we will be happy to give you the stage.

Please be there as per the following schedule:

Date/Day: 11 Dec 2010, Saturday
Venue: CMRD campus
Time: 3-5 pm.

Please contact Vishwa (9766-243-789) or Arpit (99207 20764) for directions or clarifications.

Regards,

SSPune Team

Official Website: http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/event.php?eid=86