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POCC meeting (Footprint Ventures and Google) report

I’m liveblogging the Pune OpenCoffee Club meeting organized by nFactorial. There are over 50 people and SEED Infotech’s classroom is overflowing. They are having to bring in more chairs for people who are still standing.
Neill Brownstein of Footprint Ventures is giving a pitch about his company

Footprint has created $30 billion in value over 35 years. [...]

Upcoming Event: POCC meetup - Footprint Ventures and Google M&A

What: Pune OpenCoffee Club get-together. Informal meeting with Footprint Ventures, and Google Corporate Development and M&A.
When: Thursday, 3rd July, 6pm.
Where: Seed Infotech’s office in Erandawana
Registration and Fees: This event is free for everyone. Register at upcoming.
Details:
Hemant Joshi, of nFactorial would like to invite POCC members to an informal get-together with special invitees: Footprint Ventures, and [...]

Upcoming Event: Footprint Venture entrepreneurs meeting

Update: See the updated post on the latest details (including venue, and Google M&A’s participation).
Hemant Joshi, co-founder of nFactorial Software, writes:
Footprint Venture will be visiting Pune in next week, 3rd July. They are an early stage venture capital fund, based out of India. (http://footprintventures.com/index.htm ). I am trying to arrange their meeting with POCC members [...]

Upcoming Event: Pune OpenCoffee Club Meeting

What: Meeting of the Pune OpenCoffee Club - theme: startup mentoring, incubating and collaborations
When: Saturday, 14th June, 5pm
Where: Barista, Law College Road, opposite IndSearch
This is the (loose) agenda:

Synergising startups through Service Provider - Client relationships or just good old Fashioned Business Collaboration.
Freeman Murray will lead a discussion about the possibility of Y!Combinator style startup incubation [...]

Upcoming Event: Talk by Jason Goldberg Founder+CEO social|median & ex-Founder+CEO Jobster

Serial entrepreneur, Jason Goldberg, who founded and headed Jobster, and who is now on to his next startup, social|median, a social news website, will share his past experiences as an entrepreneur and then Jason and Nishith Shah, CEO of True Sparrow Systems will talk about their experience in working on social|median development with Jason in [...]

Events: Pune OpenCoffee Club meeting & Startup “lunch” combined today

The Pune OpenCoffee Club and the Pune Startup “Lunch” events are being combined into one event to be held today (Friday, 4th April) at 5:30pm on the terraces of Bookeazy on BMCC road. (No, there will be no lunch at 5:30pm.)
The Pune OpenCoffee Club (POCC) is an informal club for people interested in the Pune [...]