Techcircle Startup 2012
At Techcircle, your favourite tech startup news website, we are extremely excited to announce the launch of Techcircle Startup 2012, a startup jamboree. This is going to be an annual event for startups, by startups, with several successful startup founders sharing their journey and learning. It is going to be a one-day MBA in starting up, building a team, pivoting, raising capital and finally building a sustainable business.
We are holding the full-day event on December 11 at Le Meridien in Delhi.
Speakers from highly innovative and disruptive tech companies across hot segments like e-commerce, software, mobile, cloud and consumer services will join the startup summit for meaningful conversations based on hands-onexperience, instead of run-of-the-mill company presentations. We will also have a smattering of investors, starting from angel to venture capital, who are looking to spot the next big thing in the Indian startup ecosystem.
At Techcircle Startup 2012, all our speakers will be taking questions you have on their journey, experiences and business strategy. Direct your questions to register@vccircle.com
8:00am - 8:45am
Tea & Registration
8:45am - 9:00am
Introduction Note
9:00am - 9:30am
Entrepreneurship 101: Is Parallel Entrepreneurship For Everyone? What Works And What Doesn't
Harish Bahl - Founder & CEO, Smile Group
Shrija Agrawal - Associate Editor, Techcircle & VCCircle (Interviewer)
9:30am - 10:00am
Entrepreneurship 101: From Classifieds To A Marketplace: What Made Sulekha Pivot
Satya Prabhakar - President and CEO, Sulekha.com
Anupama Arya, Co-founder, The Hatch (Interviewer)
10:00am - 10:30am
Entrepreneurship 101: Starting Up In A Large Company Environment: The Positives And Negatives
Satyan Gajwani - CEO, Times Internet Ltd
Hitesh Oberoi - MD & CEO, Info Edge India Limited (Interviewer)
10:30am - 11:00am
Entrepreneurship 101: How To Build A Global Product Out Of India: The Key Lessons Learned From Building Komli & Pubmatic
Amar Goel - Founder & Chairman, Komli Media & Pubmatic
Vijay Shekhar Sharma - Founder & MD, One97 Communications (Interviewer)
11:00am - 11:15am
Tea & Networking
11:15am - 11:55am
Entrepreneurship 101: Technologies Change But Why The Fundamentals of Business Don't Change
Vishwas Patel - Founder & CEO, Avenues India Private Limited
Alok Mittal - MD, Canaan Partners (Moderator)
11:55am - 12:25pm
Keynote Session: How Internet Entrepreneurship Has Evolved From The 1990s To Now: The Key Learnings
Sanjeev Bikhchandani - Founder, Info Edge Ltd. (Naukri.com)
Sahad P.V. - Founder & Editor, Techcircle & VCCircle (Interviewer)
12:25pm - 1:25pm
Techcircle Showcase
This is a platform for India's 10 most promising tech startups to showcase their products, business plans and key innovations. These are startups with highly innovative technologies or beta products, have some market traction (such as a big customer or two) and have a small team. To apply, click here (Nomination Closed)
1:25pm - 2:25pm
Lunch & Networking
2:25pm - 2:55pm
Entrepreneurship 101: Five Mistakes Startups Make & How To Avoid Them
Vijay Shekhar Sharma - Founder & MD, One97 Communications
2:55pm - 3:15pm
Special Session: Building The Right Web Infrastructure For Your Startup As You Scale
Parimal Pandya - Director, Emerging Customer's Group, Akamai Technologies
3:15pm - 3:35pm
Inner Piece - Deciphering Intellectual Property as a startup
Dr. Anu Vaidyanathan-Founder, PatNMarks
3:35pm - 3:50pm
Tea & Networking
3:50pm - 4:20pm
Entrepreneurship 101: It's Not Just The Slow & Steady That Wins The Race: The Key Rules Of Execution For A Startup's Success
Praveen Sinha - Co-Founder & MD, Jabong
4:20pm - 4:50pm
Angel Investor Insights: How I work With My Startup Entrepreneurs & The Lessons Learned
Sharad Sharma - Ex-CEO, Yahoo! India R&D & active angel investor
4:50pm - 5:20pm
Entrepreneurship 101: What Is It That Is Wrong With India's Seed Investing & Venture Capital Ecosystem
Aloke Bajpai - CEO, Ixigo
4:50pm - 5:45pm (parallel session)
Techcircle Co-Founder Dating
If you are thinking of starting up and looking for co-founders, we can probably help you find other like-minded individuals in a one-to-one interaction format. To apply, click here (Nomination Closed)
5:20pm - 5:40pm
Entrepreneurship 101: Building A World Class Team: How To Attract & Retain The Best Talent For Your Startup
Srinivasu M.N (Vasu) - Co-Founder & Director, Billdesk
Bejul Somaia-Managing Director, Lightspeed Advisory Services India
5:45pm-5:50pm
Concluding Remarks
5:50pm onwards
Techcircle Unwind
Cocktail & Networking
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PatNMarks provides consulting, filing and prosecution services in the area of Intellectual Property including Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Designs. Started as a products company in 2001, we have evolved into handling early-stage identification of Intellectual Property portfolios and managing these portfolios through to grant and renewal at the Indian IP offices. PatNMarks is also recognized world-wide as the first company to build a product for prior-art search in India. Our mission is to enable inventors in India realize the potential of leveraging these rights as a competitive advantage over a product or company’s life-cycle. One of our core ethics is to tailor our advice to suit a wide variety of customers including individual inventors, small and medium companies and large corporations as a one size fits all philosophy often does not scale. We have worked alongside several award-winning startups and serial inventors and believe in constantly updating our own knowledge through sustained academic and industry presence.
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VCC Events opens up the avenues for participation. Join hands to be a part of India’s largest gathering of alternative investments leaders, industry stakeholders and Asia’s influential limited partners, general partners and marquee advisors. Your chance to actively participate and augment yourself as thought leaders.
Le Meridien, New Delhi
Le Meridien, New Delhi
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