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[edit] About Startups Collective

A collective for all people interested in startups, people working for startups, people interested in starting startups and people interested in helping startups start up.

[edit] Collective Coordinators

If you would like to help this collective, Add your name here. And coordinate.

• Pradeep B V, My startup, pradeep [at] mapunity [dot] in, Bangalore, 9449823772
• VibhashBlog, invincible[dot]vib[at]gmail[dot]com, Bangalore, Accenture, AJAX+Web 2.0+ Startups, 9886331496
• Ashish Sinha pluggd.in, ashish[at]pluggd.in, Bangalore, Y!, Product Management
• Promod George [pramod_george@hotmail.com, 98450 52235]
• Siddharth GoyalMy startup [ business.at.timevisioninfo.dot.com, We are a web development firm who specially cater to space of working entrepreneurs. As the name says, there is a section of people who have web related business ideas but are not willing to jump into it full time. So Time Vision Infotech makes it possible for them to become entrepreneurs while working. All you need to do is offload all development, maintenance, data entry, collation work on us. Now, you only need to take care of the business. Rest all the technological side ( web related ) as well as its operational hassles is taken care by us.]

If you would like to help add your name here:

[edit] Suggestions to Collective Co-ordinator

If you have any suggestions you can either directly email him or add them to the following list:

[edit] Topics to be covered

Add the list of topics you like to be discussed upon.

1. How to transition from employee to employer -- experiences of leaving job and starting up.
2. Opportunities for social entrepreneurship
3. How to write a great business plan.
4. When to start looking for investors & how much money to take(based on Indian startups)
5. How to present to investors.
6. How to get funding (right from approaching to the investors & VC's especially when you are not new to startups & unknown to media )
7. When & how to form a company for small web startups.
8. Where to host your startup(having VPS, Dedicated Servers or Cluster based servers, or putting up your own cluster based servers in India), and how much its going to cost based on specific requirements.
9. VC scenario in India. General overview.
10. What are the prospects of a startup aiming indian market?
11. General tips, possible resource pointers
12. Your personal experience , challenges you faced and overcame, good decisions/mistakes and lessons.
13. Full-time day job, Part-time initiatives - Challenges, Ideas & Opinions.
14. Value-based Consulting
15. Working from home
16. Long term financial education to an entrepreneur - to stay focussed on the business.
17. when you are still a student and want to start a startup.
18. Startup Valuation, Shares, ESOPs, VC Stake
19. Angels vs VCs

[edit] Proposed Sessions

If you want to share your knowledge and experience or even your ideas on how your startup is, how you went about starting it up or how startups usually start/succeed/fail this is the right place. Add your name under the right category or create a new category.

[edit] I have an idea. Can I start off on it?

1. Madhav Shivpuri, madhavshivpuri@gmail.com, Living in Tokyo, on vacation in Bangalore. My passion-developing internet businesses.

[edit] I started startup(s). I would like to share my experience

Please add your session here

1. Sujai Karampuri, Co-founder & CEO, "Sloka Telecom" , How to start technology-product companies in Bangalore- Experiences.
2. Ashwin Mahesh "Mapunity" , "Breaking many rules is easier than breaking just one! - unfunded startups!"
3. Shuchi Grover "educatorslog.in", "Creating a (web 2.0) community space for educators in India - Experiences"

[edit] I have funded/invested in/advised/helped/incubated startups. I would like to share my thoughts

Please add your session here

[edit] Gyan on funding (Angel, Seed, Early stage, Expansion stage, Growth stage, IPO's)

Please add your session here

[edit] Startups the legal angle (Registration, formation of the company, IP, Startup Valuation, Shares, ESOPs, VC Stake, Equity, IPO, Investors, NDA's)

Please add your session here

[edit] Registrations

Add your name as per your schedule & availability.

PLEASE NOTE:

While adding names, Please enter details in following format. Name, blog{if any},email,location, company{optional}, passions.

e.g Registrant1,Blog,registrant1@example.com, Your city, Your company, Your passion

Please also register at http://barcampbangalorestartups.ning.com/ to get to know each other better.

Registrations have been closed and you if you have registered you can find your name here

Others who wish to attend this collective please go to the homepage and add your name on the waiting list! We hope you will get lucky by saturday!

[edit] Schedule

Coming soon

[edit] Resources Required

One room depending upon number of registrations, Projector, whiteboard with marker, mike.