Networking your startup in India
Over the last one year or so , I started connecting with the startup ecosystem in India or whatever existed of it. 2008 has definitely seen a mushrooming of atleast one part of the ecosystem - "the regular networking opportunity". I get mails every week about this club or that , doing its bit to bring together entrepreneurs, industry folks , speakers and time pass junta looking for a meal and pepsi. I have written a concise algo to find such a
1) Take the set S with following words { "National" , "Open" , "Club" , "Startup" , "Entrepreneur" "Network" }
2) Create a subset of S and do a union with set I where I: {"India"} . Call the resultant set G
3) Search for G in google minus the double quotes.
4) You get an idea of what i am talking about. It might take you a few passes to get what you are looking for.
I know a few of them listed below :
1) Open Coffee Club ( Bangalore , Delhi and maybe one or two places)
2) Startup Sunday ( or is it Monday , frankly who cares)
3) TieCon ( any entrepreneur who spends 10k to attend a networking opportunity does not understand risk. Or maybe he doesn't know the cost of Jack Daniels)
4) Proto.in ( this won't show up as my algo's result)
5) venturewoods ( this is only a blog i reckon but pretty useful gathering of brains)
6) NEN ( National Entrepreneurship Network)
I have not been to too many of them but I think its good in a way things are atleast moving in the Indian startup world. Will write more about them soon.
