Wanted to get a sense of the audience – which ecosystem initiative do you find most useful. Is it the TiE mentoring, or nasscom emerge blog? or pluggdin events? or yourstory showcase? or medianama analysis?
And what are the gaps – specific ones? What specific service would prompt you to take 2 hours out and go attend?
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Alok,
Having associated with most of the following, here is in brief about each event
UnPluggd – Startup Showcase-experience sharing-demo, in this yr they added Hackathon
StartupWeekend – 54 hrs non-stop and it has huge fan followings
iWeekend – Similar to SW
YourStory.in – Various events, including Big event e-Sparks.
Nasscom Emerge – various events, yearly Big event Product Conclave
TiE mentoring – various events
I think the gap is : The events needs to have 1) an assessment session by investors, 2) session to meet prospective mentors. This would mean a lot to Startup-entrepreneurs-wannabe in terms of completing the ecosystem.
Disclosure : I run http://www.ayojak.com and we serve all of above except nasscom & TiE.
Dear Alok,
With you permission, I would like to add the Startup Leadership Program to the list above as I am one of the SLP Fellow with the Delhi Chapter for 2011-12 and it has been really helpful and a wonderful experience till now.
It is here last week that I had the opportunity to get in person view regarding the start-up ecosystem in India and funding etc from you directly and that really helped in getting a grasp on the things all entrepreneurs in India should know.
I would anyday take out the full day to attend a SLP event and look forward to have you there at one of the future sessions too.
All the other platforms mentioned by you above are also doing a great job of helping the startup scene in India and I regularly follow them too.
Regards,
Raj Arora
Founder/CEO
SchoolAdmissions.in
Startup Saturday : startupsaturday.in
I will take my 8 hours of life to attend UnPluggd event (and Pluggd.in site, which I visit everyday).
The UnPluggd event brings the focus on content – amazing stuff, if you look at the lack of content on most of the other events you mentioned (do people even recall what others spoke at nasscom or other event?), you will appreciate pluggdin events.
As far as analysis is concerned, medianama is doing a good job.
others – i am just not sure of. I mean, its ‘not there’.
You can also include events like startupweekend.