Pune OpenCoffee Club
From PuneTech
The Pune OpenCoffee Club is an attempt to establish recognized, open and regular meeting places where entrepreneurs can meet with investors, advisor's, (and anyone else) in a totally informal setting.
POCC is different from other organizations aimed at Entrepreneurs (like CSI Pune, SEAP, TiE Pune, NASSCOM Pune) mainly because of the informal format. In other words, anyone could announce and arrange a networking event at the cafe round the block. Thanks to the informal approach, the group allows wacky ideas like the startup lunch initiative to be popularized.
As of this writing (5th August 2008), POCC has 270 members - mostly people who have their own startups, or thinking of starting up, or interested in working for a startup. See the current list of members.
See POCC Planning for thoughts on events and activities that POCC is planning on starting.
[edit] Links
- Website: http://punestartups.ning.com
- Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/punestartups
[edit] Articles
- Pune Startups meet a success
- Have Energy Unlimited
- POCC meeting (Footprint Ventures and Google) report
[edit] People
POCC was started by Santosh Dawara and Anjali Gupta of Bookeazy. The full list of members is here. Nick Karnik created the mailing list.
There is no official structure to POCC. Anybody can call for a meeting, and anybody can suggest events to be held. Just start a discussion on the website forums or the mailing list and you are good to go.
