Written by navin on August 12th, 2010 in Featured, Miscellaneous 1 Comment
Tags: cleantech, entrepreneurs, government, innovation, startups, stppune
Do you have some cool new technology that you would like to showcase? In that case, now is your chance to show it for free at the India International Trade Fair 2010 that’s happening in Delhi starting on 14th November, 2010.
Basically, Maharashtra has been allocated 11000 sq. ft. at this trade fair to show the [...]
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Written by navin on August 11th, 2010 in In Depth, Miscellaneous No Comments
Tags: entrepreneurs, guest-post, India, startups, venturecenter
Kaushik Gala points out that tech entrepreneurs need to think beyond hi-tech. Innovative business models based on adoption of existing technology and sheer imitation offer much larger opportunities.
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Written by navin on August 9th, 2010 in In Depth, Miscellaneous 1 Comment
Tags: entrepreneurs, startups
(Recently, Shirish Deodhar, a well-known figure in the Pune technology and startup community, published a book, From Entreprenurs to Leaders, which makes the point that while the last 10 years saw the rise of several billion dollar software services companies in India, the next 10 years will see the rise of billion dollar software product [...]
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Written by navin on July 30th, 2010 in In Depth, Miscellaneous 5 Comments
Tags: education, engineering, students
Parag Shah talks about how you can get for free the same education that a student of a Masters degree in the US could get. He is planning on going through it himself, and hopes you will join him.
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Written by navin on June 29th, 2010 in Miscellaneous, Technology No Comments
Tags: education, students, systems, web
For the last few years, Pune startup KQ Infotech has been running Mentor India, an year-long, free, internship program for technology students, aimed at giving students a very strong base in systems programming, web development, or web design and animation.
The next batch of Mentor India is starting in July, and the entrance exam is on [...]
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Written by amit on March 31st, 2010 in Featured, Miscellaneous No Comments
Tags: cleantech, energy, Technology
(This article was posted by Amit Paranjape on his blog, and is reproduced here with permission.)
Call it by whatever name: Green Energy /Sustainable Solutions /Cleantech /Alternative Energy /etc. The quest for environment friendly, cheap and renewable energy is probably the most important technology problems of the 21st century.
Various options are being under development for a few [...]
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Written by navin on March 22nd, 2010 in In Depth, Miscellaneous 7 Comments
Tags: copyrights, Intellectual property, patents
Last year, we had run a quiz on copyrights and patents, consisting of a number of day-to-day examples where copyright or patent issues were involved. These were examples of the kind that an average PuneTech reader might run into. Interestingly, a very large fraction of those who took the quiz, got lots of answers wrong. [...]
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Written by navin on March 17th, 2010 in Featured, Miscellaneous 3 Comments
Tags: community, ecosystem, pune
Persistent Systems, one of Pune’s most well known companies, is finally going public. This is an occasion which many Punekars have been waiting for, and it makes the ’success’ of Persistent official.
However, Persistent Systems, and its CEO Anand Deshpande, mean much more to the tech community. In the last 10 years, they have been a [...]
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Written by navin on March 16th, 2010 in Featured, Miscellaneous 4 Comments
Tags: acts, c-dac, education, free, social causes, students
To increase the opportunities available to poor minority students the Ministry of Minority Affairs of the Government of India has started a new initiative to offer job oriented training programmes through various institutes throughout India. Pune’s C-DAC, one of the premiere Government institutes for R&D in the information technology sector, will provide this training via [...]
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Written by navin on February 25th, 2010 in Events, Featured, Miscellaneous 7 Comments
Tags: community, TEDx
Update: At this meeting (which is now over), it was decided to form various sub-committees that will work on different aspects of TEDxPune. If you’re interested,
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