The May edition of Startup Saturday witnessed diverse themes, from entertainment to analytics
The fifth Headstart Startup Saturday was a three-city event held in the political capital Delhi, the financial capital Mumbai and the IT capital Bangalore.
The Delhi event was organized at the American Center and had a mixed attendance of entrepreneurs, professionals and aspirants adding up to more than 50. There were three speakers at the Delhi event—Ankit Maheshwari of Instablogs, Saurabh Bhatia of Vdopia.com and Sarabdeep Singh of Fachak, all of whom spoke about their online startups and their entrepreneurial journeys so far. This was followed by an Entrepreneurial SoapBox. This interesting event was on a first-come-first-served basis and five entrepreneurs were invited at random and were given two minutes to speak about their ventures. Then the floor was thrown open for discussion, wherein the participants shared their problems.
The Mumbai event was held at the S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, with entertainment as the theme. The first presenter was Sunil Nair of Nautanki.tv—a company that helps people find and enjoy premium video content whenever, wherever and however they want it. Next to speak were Rahesh and Rupesh from Bookmyshow.com. They traced their journey as entrepreneurs and shared the factors that enabled them to witness almost 40% growth from the past year. The next speaker was the much-awaited personality of the day—Gul Panag, one of the first stars from the Indian film industry to have a website. Post lunch, Dale Bhagwaga, a PR professional in the entertainment industry took the stage. He spoke about his own story, starting as a music reviewer for a local Nagpur newspaper, going on to becoming a journalist and chief sub-editor in Mumbai for Cineblitz and then starting his PR agency 12 years ago.
The Bangalore event was a house-full session held at the North Pergola, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. The event witnessed a turnout of almost 110 people. The theme being analytics, there was a mix of young and experienced people from a variety of fields. The talk began with Anunay, who spoke about Marketelligent.com, right from the time they were incubated at the NSRCEL, IIMB. This was followed by Partha from AnalyticsQuotient.com, who are primarily into the FMCG domain. he spoke about how to have a focused approach to basic situations in decision making and how a combination of scientific and an artistic approach leads you to business insights. The next to speak was Kallol Borah, one of the founding directors of Headstart.in. He highlighted the activities of Headstart and described the efforts of the volunteers in five cities of India. After the networking and coffee session, Nitin Godawat from Decidyn and Madan Pandit from Textualanalytics.com spoke about some basic and futuristic topics on analytics. A talk on the incubation facilities provided by the NSRCEL was the concluding event, where A. Suryanarayanan, COO of the center, guided the audience through the activities at the NSRCEL. The enthusiasm of the audience was visible from the fact that the hall was occupied well beyond an hour of the scheduled completion of the event.
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