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Event Report: Startup Saturday Pune on Technology in Education

(This report of the Feb 2011 Startup Saturday Pune, by Vishwa Vivek Garg, first appeared on eventNU, and is republished here with permission)

For the Feb 2011 Startup Saturday Pune on Technology in Education, we got speakers from IndicThreads, Millenium School/ myEshala, NextLeap, Synthesis Solutions & kPoint.

IndicThreads – Harshad Oak

It started with Harshad Oak of IndicThreads.

IndicThreads organizes tech conferences such as java, cloud computing, mobile computing, etc. As of now it is only within Pune but in long run they want to spread all across India. These conferences are paid and the overall response is good. Harshad used to work for Cognizant before he started (along with his wife) IndicThreads. He is basically a Java guy and got some renowned certifications. He also authored a Java book. While sharing his entrepreneurial journey, he mentioned that writing a book on Java helped him a lot starting his venture.

So do something & participate in various things so that people start recognizing you.

Millenium School – Nikhil Karkare

2nd presentation was from Nikhil Karkare of Millenium School. He talked about the concept of ‘no school bags’ for children of Millenium School. It is a day boarding, state board school where kid gets almost everything within the school campus. Kids don’t take any school bags to school. They give books/ copies within the school and kids practice it.

He mentioned that since the concept of no school bag was new, initially they faced some difficulty convincing the crowd.

A related query arised, “how do parents know what their kids are doing in the school?”. They daily send sheets of whatever their kids have done during the day.

He also talked about their learning tool called myEshala where they provide video CD to parents for the syllabus and child can practice it at home as well.

NextLeap – Suruchi Wagh

3rd presentation was from Suruchi Wagh of NextLeap.

NextLeap is a recommendation engine for students seeking admission in American universities. They work on freemium model where they suggest 3 universities free of cost. They have 2 other accounts called economy & advanced where they suggest more universities and support on phone as well.

They have 3 guys on advisory board and Alok Kejriwal of Games2Win/ Mobile2Win/ Contest2Win is one of them.

Synthesis Solutions – Swapnil Patil

4th presentation was from Swapnil Patil of Synthesis Solutions.

Swapnil talked about his new venture in education field called GetAdmission.in

kPoint – Avijit

Last presentation was from Avijit of kPoint.

kPoint is a product of GSLab (a soft. dev. comp.). It is a cloud-based solution for multimedia learning and sharing in fast moving organizations. kPoint enables easy capture of expert knowledge into multimedia kapsules, which provide searchable video and flexible navigation of content for informal learning. kPoint effectively overcomes the barrier for creating and sharing content.

With that we came to an end of the event and then participants networked with each other over cold-drink and snacks. It was a successful event with around 80-90 participants.

Next meet will focus on how to take your idea/ product into the market.

About the Author – Vishwa Vivek Garg

Vishwa has 11 yrs. of rich web development experience in which he has worked at various levels from software engineer to project manager. He has worked with startups as well as well-established software companies. He loves the startup culture and tries to help the ecosystem. He has managed startup meets in Pune, India for more than a year through Startup Saturday Pune Chapter.

Vishwa co-founded eventNu.com as a hobby project and it helps him understand various aspects of running a business. He is very hopeful that this will help him in his journey towards entrepreneurship.

He consults with startups on development and business strategy.

Startup Saturday Pune “Mobile Startups”

Pune has a burgeoning number of mobile application developer
community. Some of them have been caught the eye of the top people in
the industry in India and abroad. The 13th Nov. 2010 edition of
Startup Saturday Pune is focused on celebrating their success.

3:00 – 3:15 Over view by Jignesh Jain (www.xercestechnologies.com)
3:15 – 3:30 Samir Khadepaun (www.mobikontech.com)
3:30 – 3:45 Sachin Murgunde (www.savvyinfocenter.com)
3:45 – 4:00 Sagar Bedmutha (www.optinno.com)
4:00 – 4:15 Shardul Mohite (www.weboniselab.com)
4:15 – 4:30 Surojit Nandy (www.incucapital.com)
4:30 – 5:00 Samir Patel from iPIN (world’s first open scalable mobile
payments platform)
5:00 onwards … Networking

Please register and Mark your calendars for:

Date: 13th Nov. 2010, 3:00 – 6:00 pm. See you at:
Venue: Centre for Management Research & Development (CMRD), Near
Patrakar Nagar, Off Senapati Bapat Road, Map

For more information, contact Arpit (99207 20764) or Vishwa (9766-243-789)

This event is free for all to attend. Register at:
http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/event.php?eid=68

Startup Saturday Pune featuring Clean Tech entrepreneurs & investors – April 10

What: Startup Saturday Pune, focusing on clean tech
When: Saturday, April 10th, 3pm-6pm
Where: Centre for Management Research & Development (CMRD), Near Patrakar Nagar, Off Senapati Bapat Road, Map
Registration & Fees: This event is free for all. No registration required.

Startup Saturday Pune is a once a month meeting where startups pitch to a panel of experts and investors. Anybody can attend these meetings. Click on the logo to see info about previous Startup Saturday meets
Startup Saturday Pune is a once a month meeting where startups pitch to a panel of experts and investors. Anybody can attend these meetings. Click on the logo to see info about previous Startup Saturday meets

Details

Clean tech has been favorite sector for VC investments for the last couple of years, by far bypassing mobile, web 2.0 and health care. Why. Because ventures succeed if it can solve a customer pain point. And environment, energy, water waste and public transport has been a major pain in the neck of Government, large corporates and public at large in all countries. Just to explain in brief, below are a few keywords.

  1. Environment – Global warming, Deforestation, Ozone layer and
    Natural disasters
  2. Energy – from fossil fuels, solar, hydro, wind, nuclear, tidal,
    geothermal and bio material
  3. Water – Harvesting, usage, recycling, desalination and drinking water
  4. Waste – Electronic, household, plastic, industrial, batteries,
    hazardous and toxic waste
  5. Public Transport – vehicles on batteries, solar, hydrogen, hybrid
    engines, mass rapid transport

Clean tech promises to solve these pain points. We are convinced, if
you are looking for business opportunities, clean tech is really a
fertile ground. To explain this further, we have investors, experts,
business and startups from Clean Tech.

  • 3:00 – 3:30 PM : Anil Paranjape, investor in clean tech
  • 3:30 – 4:00 PM : Pushkar Kale, Waste Management Business
  • 4:00 – 4:30 PM : Padmakar Kelkar, Bright Star Electronics
  • 4:30 – 5:00 PM : Girish Narasimhan, Investor
  • 5:00 – 6:00 PM : Networking, Tea and Snacks.

Startup Saturday Pune: Mobile & VAS – 9th Jan

What: Startup Saturday Pune featuring Pune’s mobile startups pitching to a Panel of Experts
When: Saturday, 9th January, 3pm-5:30pm
Where: Pravara Centre for Management Research & Development, Off Senapati Bapat Road, Near Patrakar Nagar
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. Register here.

Details

Click on the logo to see all PuneTech posts about Startup Saturday
Click on the logo to see all PuneTech posts about Startup Saturday

Startup Saturday Pune 3 is dedicated to Mobile vas and apps. We have selected companies building products for the mobile space, sms, value added services, voice recognition, apps for iphone and android.

The startups that are presenting are

  1. Mobikon Technologies (Samir Khadepaun)
  2. SMSONE (Ravi Ghate)

And we are discussing with a few interesting startups in the same
space. Nominations and suggestions are welcome.

These startups will make 5 minute lightening pitches followed by questions, suggestions, feedback, ideas and encouragement from our expert panel. Our panel of experts will include people from telecom, mobile handset companies, investors, IT companies, media and marketing experts. As said earlier, nominations, suggestions are welcome.

Send your nominations, suggestions, feedback to sandeep@actonbiotech.com. +91 98900 42670.

Startup Saturday Pune: 12 December

What: Startup Saturday Pune featuring a panel discussion and 3 startup pitches
When: Saturday, 12 December, 3pm-5:30pm
Where: Venture Center, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road. Map: http://bit.ly/VenCen (To reach Venture Center, go past NCL towards Pashan, pass the cricket ground adjacent to NCL and then you’ll find NCL Innovation Park / Venture Center on the right hand side.)
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. Register at: http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/event.php?eid=11

Details

Click on the logo to see all PuneTech posts about Startup Saturday
Click on the logo to see all PuneTech posts about Startup Saturday

This time there is a little change in the format. The speakers make a short business plan presentation (read elevator pitch), followed by questions, suggestions, feedback and constructive criticism by the advisory panel. Then its open to the audience for a short time. For every startup, we will have one person from the same industry.

For this session the panel includes

  1. Vasu Ramanujam, Director, http://www.entercoms.com
  2. Girish Narasimhan, http://www.cfaw.in
  3. A VC from Bangalore
  4. Rahul Chandawarkar, Freelance Photojournalist
  5. Sunil Nambiar, Managing Director, http://www.indiasoft.co.in

And ventures taking the hot seat are

  1. Gautam Jayaraman http://www.uniken.com talking about TranSafe, a security product for banks
  2. Basant K Gupta http://www.zeusnumerix.com talking about CAD CAM etc.
  3. Kanhaiya Kale from http://www.indictranstech.com

And we have a startup showcase by Riyaaz Sheikh http://www.xtechindia.com talking about SMS platform.

Register at http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/event.php?eid=6. Call Sandeep at 98900 42670 or Vishwa at 99236 00353 for more details.

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