HeadStart Foundation “Startup Saturdays”;an innovation platform

New Delhi, 11 December, 2008: The HeadStart Foundation, a not-for-profit organization run by volunteers and full time professionals to create and promote the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in India will conduct a multi-city event “Startup Saturday” this weekend on 13 December, 2008.

Startup Saturdays are monthly meet ups held across many Indian cities where entrepreneurs discuss ideas and market opportunities, demo products and take detailed feedback and listen to talks by investors, consultants and industry executives on various issues that are key to a startup’s success. The idea is to have continuous interaction in the entrepreneurial, professional and investment community to drive rapid evolution of the entire ecosystem in India.

On the coming weekend, Startup Saturdays will be held in four cities: Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi and Hyderabad with a different agenda for each of them.

In Bangalore,the meet at the Honeywell campus also includes a talk on next generation cloud computing by Vikram Murudeshwar of Akamai and a product demo by LifeMojo, an online healthcare startup.

The agenda for the Startup Saturday in Mumbai held at the SP Jain Institute of Management includes a product demo of Librarywala.com by Hiten Turakhia and of Adoroi by Mitesh Thakkar followed by a discussion on what startups should do in a slowdown involving Hemir Doshi of IDG Ventures, Mahesh Murthy of SeedFund, Gopal Krishnan who was CEO at Mobile2Win and Rohit Nalwade who was CEO of ConsumerVision.

The American Center is hosting the Startup Saturday in Delhi. The agenda includes a product demo by Eko which is in the mobile banking business and targets semi-urban India’s unbanked population. There is also a discussion on ‘The evolving business model for online consumer services in India’ that features Harish Bahl, Founder of the Smile Interactive Technology Group that is a promoter of Quasar Media and Tyroo Ad platform and Sanjay Sindhwani, VP, New Initiatives of IndiaTimes.

Startup Saturdays in Hyderabad are supported by IIIT Hyderabad just as the American Center, SP Jain Institute, IIM Bangalore and IIM Ahmedabad supports it in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad respectively. The Hyderabad meet up this weekend at the Taj Deccan involves product demos, an investor meet and technology talks by Microsoft, Google, Pramati, Progress Software and others who are presenting at the co-located HYSEA Technology Day.

So get ready to partake in the new rise of entrepreneurship and innovation revolution and make sure you attend the congregation of the best minds in the industry! Register today at by adding your name and details on the wiki page for your city. http://startupsaturday.in/index.php?title=Main_Page

About HeadStart Foundation

The HeadStart Foundation is a not-for-profit organization run by volunteers and full time professionals to create and promote the innovation ecosystem in India. The objective is to drive customer adoption of new products and technology in India, enable investments in startups by angels and venture capitalists and provide access to technology domain expertise to startups in partnership with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Bangalore. Mr. Kallol Borah is the founder and spokesperson. Kallol himself is an entrepreneur and thought leader in the innovation space.
Headquartered in Bangalore but carrying out activities in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Delhi (with Pune, Kolkata, Chennai to be included in 2009), the HeadStart Network is led by a team of 16 founders who are a mix of entrepreneurs, academics and industry professionals and is supported by corporates such as Hewlett Packard, Philips and Alcatel-Lucent.

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