Announcing..Announcing and Announcing..
Calling Bangalore startups – we are launching a startup event that focuses on…well, what else..startups.
Here is a small FAQ that will tell you why, what and how!
Why?
There are tons of events – so why another one?
Our exclusive focus is/will be on operational aspect of running a startup and ‘real life’ problems.
For instance, questions like
- How do I create sales collateral (also: what is sales collateral!) ? Sale strategy?
- How do I hire my first employee? He isn’t a cofounder, so what about designation?
- How do I structure salary?
- How do I price my product?
- I need to take my VAS product to operators. Can somebody give me inside dope?
…and lots of ‘How to”
Like I said earlier, these are day to day questions which are far more relevant once you start up! Let’s learn from each other.
What
Is it open to all? Yes and No.
Yes, if you are a startup and ready to share your side of the story. Each event will be built around real life case studies and issues startups actually want resolved.
No, if you aren’t ready to share your side of the story.
[Be assured that nothing from your stories/experience that you do not want shared will leave the room.]
This is a sort of closed-yet-open, a gated community where we want to ensure that every event is content focused. Every event has certain takeaways and only focused crowd attends that.
Is it only for startups?
Yes.
Is it Free?
To start off, yes. In future, maybe no.
We might charge a token fee to ensure that we weed out the ‘timepass’ crowd. Most importantly, you will pay for the quality of content (and that’s a test for us as well, i.e whether the content is good enough or not).
Event Format?
Moderator driven, but we assure you that it will be interactive (just the way pluGgd.in is)
How
Come over to the first event scheduled for this week.
Venue: TiE Bangalore Office, Divyasree Chambers, Bangalore (Thanks to TiE for providing a venue.]
Date: July 18th, 2009, Saturday (sorry for such a short notice)
Timing: 10 AM – 1 PM.
Topic for the first event
Top Myths that Product Startups Live with
The topic will cover basic set of myths/ass-umptions that startups live with (like ‘I am the end user’!)
The exact case study for this will be announced tomorrow.
Like pluGgd.in, the event will be less of gyaan, more of real-life situations.
I want to attend..how to?
We only have 30 seats for the first event. You can leave a comment here or mail me (ashish at pluGgd.in)
For more details, you can call me Nine 8 Four 52 06443.
About the author - Ashish Sinha is a Startup Mentor/Product Strategy Coach, and the founder/chief editor of pluGGd.in.
He has launched/managed couple of products (consumer as well as enterprise) in US and India, and now consults with startups/small businesses on their product/media strategy. He can be reached at: ashish (at) pluGGd.in [+91 98452 06443]
Any plans of similar event in delhi?
I am interested, what is the head count so far?
Not sure if I replied earlier or not..but we still have slots available.
So pls confirm
Hi Ashish,
I am staying in singapore and fan of pluggd.in. Your event sounds intresting but can’t attend… Can u pls put story on this event covering all major questions which were discussed, so that it can help readers like us who stays out of Bangalore? It’ll be great if you can….
Hey Anand
Will surely try to blog about the event
I am IN. I would like to share some of my experiences on the above.
Thanks.
Some more myths we could discuss:
Startup funding !(necessarily)= VC Investment
TC coverage != Cracked It!
Data Collection != Measurement
And, on a lighter note,
VC funding != Revenue
I’d like to attend as well.
Am particularly interested in the “Product Pricing” part.
Amit. From what I could see, the first event is not about Product Pricing. Ashish, correct me if I got that wrong, please.
Ya Sameer,
I got that. Realized it soon after reading the other post, which incidentally I had missed.
When in Delhi ??
Thanks for the info. Will be there. Could be please send me the exact address. GMaps can’t locate the TIE office
great initiative. We need many more formal and informal forums for the ecosystem to interact with each other.
Remember Barriers break when people talk!
Hi Ashish,
The discussion was fantastic. Its a great forum and its what we need to help the budding entreprenuers to break the entry barriers as well as the myths associated with entreprenuership. I believe the most important contribution will be to learn from the mistakes from the others. This forum will help entreprenuers to better understand market dynamics.
Finally, as I have already discussed with you, we have to be selective in giving membership into this forum. This will help the members to better focus on the core issues rather than getting diluted.
Great job well done.
Can you share the presentation with us?