2011 has been a great year for Indian startup ecosystem, but 2012 will clearly be the year that will bring out the men in boys and will surely drive a lot of new business categories. But before we get into (*yawn*) 2012 prediction, lets get back to an important ritual of new year – i.e. new year resolutions.

It’s the time of the year when you come up with new year resolution – sometimes under a peer pressure and sometimes when you really want to make that change. But once things settle in and life gets back to normal (post Jan 3rd?), you still would need to find a mechanism to keep up your new year resolution.

Here are a few tips that will help you (we shared some of these last year too).

Decide your mode of managing task

To those who use smartphones and try out 10 different applications to manage task, decide what do you want to stick to – A diary? or Outlook Task? Or Mail Calendar service? OR an app? The more you use different systems to manage task, the more excuse you are building for not managing tasks.

Set Goals

Resolutions work when they are goal driven. You can ‘get healthy this year’, but ‘20 minutes jogging every day’ is what makes ‘being healthy’ a viable resolution. Do not use statements like ‘I will improve my self-esteem’, instead use ‘I will join ToastMasters Club on January 29th’ (i.e. actionable and measurable).

Set Incremental/Attainable Goals.

Even if you want to quit smoking by 2012, you should set incremental goals (bring down the count to 2 packs/day by February, half by April).

Now take out your expensive diary and write these goals against the dates you have decided.

Though, there are online tools (43Things), but nothing comes closer to writing it down. So Just do it.

Do Not Have More than 5 Goals

Lets accept it. You can’t focus on new year resolutions beyond a certain point. The key to keeping up your new year resolutions is to keep it simple and at the same time, ensure that you aren’t running after too many high impact goals.

Do not go beyond 5 high-impact goals. Ideally, you shouldn’t be running after more than 2 high impacting goals at the same time. Keep it sequential, if possible.

Incentivize

Keep incremental goals and keep incentivizing yourself. It’s like a bribe, just that it works. So once you have brought down the daily cigarette count from 20 to 10, give yourself a bash.

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Got more suggestions? Share them in the comment section.

Again, wishing you and your family a happy new year 2012.

- Team Pluggd.in

SuperHappyDevHouse is a celebration of Hacker Culture. It is an opportunity to show off interesting projects you’ve been working on,  hear about new ideas, get collaborators, learn new things, watch tech talks or hacker movies, read science fiction, and generally hang out with other smart interesting people in the startup / software subculture here in Bangalore.

We’ll have several zones for you to get your geek on:

The Hacker Lounge with tables and power strips for people to work on projects.

Geek Theater where we can line up tech talks, tutorials, and hacker movies

Gaia cafe sit, sip coffee or tea, nibble on snacks and look like the hipster hacker you are.

The Soap Box Auditorium where people can give short lightening talks about their projects, ideas or startups. Talks will be limited to 6 minutes each and then a couple minutes for questions. For people who would like to give a longer barcamp style talk, please introduce your topic with a lightening talk and then bring everyone interested to another spot for a deeper discussion.

SuperHappyDevHouse will start at 1pm and run until 10pm. Currently the GOAP plan to hang out with us from 3pm to 7pm. For the time that they are here we want to use the lightening talks to show them what real innovative startups in Bangalore are doing.

By comfort zone, I just don’t mean the audience etc. (we have a damn good readership across the country), but of handling operations/managing vendors/partners in a remote location. Given that we are a super lean/thin organization, doing a full-fledged event meant putting up a lot of things at stake.e

But then, thanks to all our supporters/partners – UnPluggd has upped the bar for everybody. Though not a direct indicator, but the event (which didn’t even have a wifi at the venue) was trending in India and all thanks to great stuff that came out of speakers/demo companies.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all our partners/supporters who believed in us and helped in making UnPluggd a GRAND success.

UnPluggd: Sponsors

We’d like to thank our sponsors:

- Nexus Venture Partners

- Netmagic

- Snapdeal

- Zomato

UnPluggd: Supporters

- Freecharge.in

- WebMunky.co.in

- TiE Pune.

- UniRow

- Punetech Community, PuneStartups and PuneOCC.

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Pluggd.in Team: Pratyush Prasanna, Kunalkant and Naman.

Volunteers – Vivek Gupta, Vishwa (Founder of Eventnu), Ashutosh Mahajan and Jayanth Ramesh.

And to the audience that came from Pune, Mumbai, NCR, Nagpur, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and all over the country. It was a great experience having you at the event and we will soon share details of the companies presented/speaker videos etc. on the site.

Stay Pluggd.in!

Help spread the word. Please share the live streaming link (http://www.pluggd.in/live) with fellow entrepreneurs/geeks/friends.

Stay Pluggd.in!

At the upcoming edition (scheduled for Nov 19th/Pune), we have 5 amazing speakers who will share their entrepreneurial journey and how they built a business in spite of the challenges faced.

- For instance, Brewcrafts (Doolally’s parent company) couldn’t get the license to start a micro-brewery company in India. So what did the founders do? Cribbed and gave up? NO. They actually took Indian government officials to Singapore to help them understand what Micro-brewery is and eventually got a license to start microbrewing in India. Cofounder, Suketu will talk about the Doolally journey at UnPluggd.

- “You cannot build a global R&D center from India. The storage story is almost over”. These were the words from investors/industry pundits to Gluster Cofounder, Anand Babu Periasamy. And the team proved them wrong! Gluster was recently acquired by RedHat for $136mn.

Other speakers include

1. Vishwas Mahajan – Cofounder of CompuLink, one of the few product companies from India that achieved INR 100 crores in revenue within 10 years of existence.
2. Mukul Kumar, Pubmatic Co-founder will talk about the Pubmatic journey.
3. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, One97 founder will talk about the journey from a startup to a multi-million dollar company.

As far as startup demos are concerned, we have 10 demos+ 1 Hack demoing at the event – selected from a long list of companies that applied for the demo slot. The demoing companies represent various industries – right from LBS to Enterprise, Cloud infrastructure etc.

As far as attendees are concerned, they will follow the UnPluggd trend – i.e. a LOT (and we mean LOT) of entrepreneurs, geeks, angel investors and VCs, though in an informal setup.

UnPluggd Venue/FAQs

Venue : MES Auditorium, 131. Mayur colony, Near HDFC Bank, Near Karishma Chowk, Karve Road, Pune, India.

Date: November 19th, Pune.

Timing : 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM.

Contact Details: Kunalkant (+91 9241 00 9423). kunal@pluggd.in.

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As far as event tickets are concerned, you can buy them online or simply come over to the venue and register on-the-spot.

- Those traveling from Mumbai to Pune can avail 10% discount on cab ticket, thanks to our friends at Olacabs. Use this link to avail this offer (the discount is built-in).

For more info, please join the UnPluggd Facebook group.

Event Agenda

But before we share the FAQs, we would like to share that those who are coming from Mumbai to Pune have a reason to rejoice. Our friends at Olacabs have created a special page: http://www.olacabs.com/unpluggd for attendees to book cabs – either a full cab or shared cabs. And most importantly, the system has an inbuilt 10% discount on cab price! So plan your trip and do a bit of pre-networking before the event (also use the UnPluggd Facebook group for finding partners)

And now the FAQs

Qn: Spot Registration? Can I pay at the venue?

Answer: Yes. Spot Registration is possible, please share your details here (otherwise, do come over directly to the venue and hop to the ‘Payment’ counter).

QN: The most frequently asked question is ‘Who from Investor world are attending the event?”

Answer: Well. Pretty much all the names you hear in the circuit . And importantly, a LOT of angel investors. Having said that, one thing we’d like to stress is that meeting investors shouldn’t be the ONLY reason to attend UnPluGGd. Attend UnPluGGd for some serious talk on building a technology business, to meet fellow entrepreneurs and open up new partnership channels.

QN: I have a discount coupon (for the ticket). Can I use it at the venue?

Answer: No. If at all you have a discount coupon, it can only be availed from our ticketing partner website (link: doattend, ayojak). At the venue, you will have to pay the normal price, i.e. Rs. 700/.

QN: What’s the agenda/speaker list?

Answer: Do check out the details here (also embedded towards the end of this article).

Qn:  Event Venue/Date?

Venue : MES Auditorium, 131. Mayur colony, Near HDFC Bank, Near Karishma Chowk, Karve Road, Pune, India.

Date: November 19th, Pune.

Timing : 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM.

Contact Details: Kunalkant (+91 9241 00 9423). kunal@pluggd.in.

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UnPluggd Agenda

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Next Steps? Well, make a choice (now!):

CouchConf Bangalore is a one-day event for anyone interested in learning more about the latest advancements in distributed/cloud databases. This one-day event is for any developer who wants to take a deeper dive into Couchbase NoSQL technology, learn where it’s headed and build really cool stuff.

The early bird ticket (priced at $25) includes:

• Education and updates on NoSQL, provided by Couchbase experts.

• Sessions on best practices for developing with Couchbase and deploying into production.

• The Couchbase Lounge – hands-on support for your Couch questions and a relaxed place to network.

• Panel discussion with Zynga engineers on their use of NoSQL.

• An after party for mingling and networking.

Do check out event agenda/avail early bird discounts/get to know more details at CouchConf Bangalore site.

Event Venue: Zynga Office, Ground Floor, #206, MG Road, Bangalore – 560001

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CouchConf Speakers

Matt Ingenthron
Matt heads up the Developer Solutions group for Couchbase and is an experienced web architect with a software development background. At Couchbase, Matt leads the team developing client libraries, samples and docs developers interact with.  In recent years, he has been a core developer on Membase and Couchbase, a contributor to the memcached project. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences including JavaOne 2011, MySQL 2011, MySQL 2010, OSCON 2010, Erlang Factory, Cloud Camp San Francisco, Silicon Valley Code Camp, and many others.

Dale Harvey
Dale is an Engineer at Couchbase and a long time enthusiast of Erlang, Javascript, Open Source and the Open Web. Dale previously founded the online spreadsheet company Hypernumbers before moving to Couchbase where he works on Couchbase core + Mobile Couchbase.

Frank Weigel
Frank is director of product management at Couchbase. He is responsible for the company’s core NoSQL database products and works with customers and users around the world to understand emerging requirements for low-latency, scalable data stores. He started his career 10 years ago in software engineering, primarily focused on dynamic binary translators, before crossing to the dark side and telling others what their code should do.

Dustin Sallings
Dustin is a chief architect at Couchbase and author of spymemcached. He is a core contributor to Membase and Memcached projects. He has well over 100 open source projects on github and other places. Dustin’s motivation is to make things better to make people’s lives better, help people understand things, and just generally to make the world a better place within the realm of things in which he is most interested.

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» UnPluggd attendees will get a special discount code – so one more reason to be @UnPluggd.

Broadly speaking, speakers range from different industry categories to different stage of their startup journey – right from 5 year old brewery to entepreneurs building a global business from India. The only thing common across these speakers is the practical/actionable insights and experience they will share with the audience.

- As far as startup demos are concerned, we have an exciting list of startups who will demo/launch their product at the event (across different categories/sectors).

- A general FAQ has been around investor participation – well, there will be VCs/Angels attending the event, but UnPluggd’s focus is on entrepreneurs, the center of startup ecosystem. So meet a lot of entrepreneurs/form business partnership and be open to meet VCs/Angels.

And now, the agenda:

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Next Steps? Well, make a choice (now!):

Simply tweet  why you are attending Unpluggd and win the passes.

Example:
I am attending #Unpluggd4 because its the most sought after startup event. http://j.mp/Unpluggd

or

I am attending #Unpluggd4 because ……. http://j.mp/Unpluggd

Start Date: 14Nov
End Date: 17th NOV
Event Venue: MES Auditorium, Karve Road, Pune
Event Date: 19th November

Rules:

• Winners will be announced on 17th November, 6 PM.
• Winners will be informed through reply to the tweet and complete list will be published at Pluggd.in
• You have to arrange for your own accommodation & travel.
• All right reserved with Pluggd.in team

The interactive session with Deep Nashar will be moderated by Ashish Sinha (Pluggd.in founder) and will mainly focus on the product/UX learnings from Linkedin. The session will mainly focus on understanding the UX process followed at LinkedIn and lessons startups can learn from the company.

If you are a product/UX person, you should be attending the event.

Details: Nov 15th, Bangalore.
Venue: LinkedIn India, Ground Floor, Tridib Building, Bagmane Tech Park, CV Raman Nagar, Bengaluru.
Pricing: Free. Limited seats – so please register at the earliest (use the below form).

Registration Form

Update: The registration has been closed.

To start off, let me introduce to you, Anand Babu Periasamy  – the cofounder of Gluster.

Gluster was recently acquired by RedHat for $136 million (all cash deal) and Anand will share the Gluster journey with the audience. What’s important about the journey is that a bunch of VCs told Gluster team that

• Storage is a dead business
• You cannot build a global R&D (+product) from India.

That is, the regular stuff you get to hear regarding the Indian startup ecosystem. But the Gluster team proved them wrong and built a global business.

At UnPluggd, Anand will share the journey in the typical UnPluggd style!

Block your seat: Grab your tickets online or Pay at Venue.

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Details here: www.pluggd.in/unpluggd
Date: Nov 19th,
Venue: MES Auditorium, 131. Mayur colony, Near HDFC Bank, Near Karishma chowk, Karve road, Pune.
Contact Details: Kunalkant (+91 9241 00 9423)

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For those who have already filled up the nomination form, they will start hearing from us today (late) evening onwards.

If you are wondering why nominate, here are a few testimonials from some of the startups who demoed at the previous UnPluggd event(s ).

“Presenting at UnPluggd increased our visibility in the start-up eco-system. Infact, couple of our hires have been readers of Pluggdin who found about us through the blog post on UnPluggd.” – Suruchi Wagh, COO, Next Leap

“Unpluggd gave us more visibility and credibility in the Indian market. It also connected us with the right people in terms of technology investing and mentorship.” – Raj, Recruiterbox

“After the event couple of users started developing on the platform, one of them developed across multiple platform and rated us the best as per his evaluation” – Atul, Kookoo.

“Unpluggd was a great experience. I was able to make rapid progress both in anticipation of presenting at UnPluggd and to deliver to the promises made. Close to 150 new users signed up for updates and many participants mailed me with valuable feedback. I was also approached by few entrepreneurs and VCs” – Harsh (Appcanvas)

Date: November 19th, Pune.

Venue: MES Auditorium, 131. Mayur colony, Near HDFC Bank (Karishma Chowk),Karve Road, Pune , India.

Block your seat: http://unpluggd4.ayojak.com or http://unpluggd.doattend.com

Nomination Form

In fact, when we were ideating on hackathon, a startup founder (+ good friend) suggested us not to worry so much about the Indian startup API (as per him, “developers will still prefer a white skin API vs. Indian – call it racist, but that’s the hard reality. There isn’t so much of respect for Indian companies API ”).

And we took a bet. We brought 2 very good API platforms  (Zomato and Kookoo) to the event and the result was phenomenal. We also experimented with ‘sponsored projects’ – AngelPrime sponsored few tickets and the hack by Swaroop is a testimonial of the bet we took. It won’t be wrong to say that the event has set standards for others to follow.

And now, coming to the hacks, here are the hacks created by 49 hackers that attended the event

Hacks:

Zomato team promised an iPad for the best hack made using the Zomato API and the winner was Akshay Surve, a hacker from Mumbai who created an awesome ‘magazine’ styled experience (Zwingmo.com) using the APIs.

Special Thanks

To all our sponsors:

• Zomato.com
• Kookoo.in
• Mobstac
• Capillary.co.in

Venue partner, Jaaga.in for helping us manage the entire operations and mentors for providing inputs to hackers.

- Sponsored Projects: AngelPrime team (for sponsoring 2 projects) and Kuliza team for sponsoring 4 tickets.
- Of course, Pluggd.in team (especially Pratyush and Kunal) did an awesome job.

Special thanks goes out to dear friend Arjun for buying beer for hackers. That was super cool gesture!!

To cut the long story short, all we can say is “hum to akele hi chale the, log milte gaye karvaan banta gaya”.

What next? Stay Pluggd.in!

Well, we started a bit late (sincere apologies), but it was quite a challenge to fight the rain gods.  In fact, some of the hackers called up on Friday and asked us if we plan to postpone the event owing to heavy rains.

Well, if you are a serious hacker, you cannot let such stuff come your way. We started the event a bit late, but the amazing part about the hackers was that most of them were very clear on the idea and what they plan to achieve during the 2 days.
Apart from talks by Zomato and Kookoo team regarding their APIs, we also had a great session by Ravi Pratap, cofounder of Mobstac. Ravi walked us through his geeky days to starting Mobstac.

Soundbytes from several attendees are that they have attended several hackathons and most of such events had ‘wannabes’ at the event (i.e. wannabe hackers, wannabe entrepreneurs) and hence the discussion ended up with ‘how do I raise fund?’ etc. But the Pluggd.in Hackathon has a LARGE chunk of entrepreneurs, founders, geeks working for startups – i.e. a much evolved audience who just wanted to do 1 thing – i.e. hack. Importantly, hackers have mostly used APIs from India companies – a feat that we are certainly proud of and have set a trend for others to follow.

Hackathon: Teams/Ideas

All in all, a total of 19 teams have been formed with ideas ranging from creating a Ziri (watchout Siri) to creating personal cloud, creating DealRadio et al. Here are some of the interesting projects (selected randomly):

• Hackodex: Create a video chat app for hackers (help them build teams/connect with other hackers).
• Sudo-code: Zomato comparator + mine user choices to rank restaurants better
• iMote: Creating a remote controller using a mobile phone
• DealRadio: Deal Radio using APIs from Offergrid, Zomato and Kookoo (+latlong).
• HotBuild: Continuous Integration – testing on cloud as a serivce (RoR)
• FrigateBird: Parsing SMS and emails – and actions on content
• PersonalCloud: Cloud for individuals which will automate the communication between devices or servers on the cloud
• Ziri: The Ziri for India.

Pictures from the Day 1

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Stay Pluggd.in for more updates.

Rohan Dey

Who am I?
I’m Rohan 19yr. old entrepreneur and php/node dev. My Hobbies are traveling,music,sports,exploring NBT ideas and coding late at night!

What I  would like to do/solve at Pluggd.in’s Hackathon?
I would like to build a social utility which would allow people to discover like minded peers having common interests and chat with them.

Skills set/expertise/person i am looking for the idea?
I am looking for a designer who is passionate about creating magical user experience.

Gaurav Lochan

Who Am I?

A techie, having earned my stripes at Microsoft and VMware and Akimbi (a startup that was acquired by VMware). Now working on a startup idea of my own, doing some android dev these days and wearing non-techie hats too.

What I would like to do/solve at Pluggd.in’s Hackathon.
I have a simple idea around capturing personal medical records using a smartphone. Often, when the doctor asks me for a previous prescription/diagnosis, i don’t have it handy. But I’m not tied to this idea only – Looking to build something cool, and meet good folks.

Skills looking for:
- Designer – would really like to get a good designer to collaborate with here.
- Web developer – can use any of the frameworks (ruby / django-python / php / java)
- I can do the android stuff, but can also use help from other devs if they’re interested. And we could try doing it on other platforms.

Akshay Surve

Who am I?

I’m a Serial Social Innovator by the day – initiator of SocialSync.org, Ads4Good.org and OpenCivic.in; and a Code Warrior by night – Ruby on Rails, NoSQL and Node.js is part of my current artillery. In essence I am a ‘Startup Jockey‘. Apart from writing code, I enjoy running, hiking and meeting interesting people.

What I would like to do/solve at Pluggd.in’s Hackathon.

I would be _cooking_ *delicious* Publisher Widgets for Zomato using the Zomato API.

Rationale:

1. I seriously want to promote Indian startups who have released their APIs in the open; I definitely want to promote more devs to use these APIs creatively.
2. Easily embeddable widgets are a game winner for any local listing startup. I was really surprised seeing very few of the Zomato competitors have any widgets of their own; Zomato has one on their website. I really feel this is a game winner for Zomato – to gain scalable traction and visibility.

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Who are the other hackers? Take a look at some of them:

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Wanna Hack @Hackathon?

We have closed the online registration, but you can come over to the venue and grab your seat.

Venue: Jaaga, No 68, KH Double Road Opp. Coporation Bank, Next to the K H Road Bus Stand, Bangalore.

Contact Number: +91 9241 00 9423 [Kunal].

Agenda/Mentor details here.

Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/unpluggd/

Partners/Sponsors

We’d like to thank our awesome sponsors/partners:

1. Zomato: The guys at Zomato are giving away free iPad to the best app created using Zomato API. The team is coming over from Delhi to Banglore to mingle with hackers.

2. Kookoo: The Hyderabad based Kookoo team will give CPBX account for 3 months, free accounts + 4GB pen drive to all hackers that create “stuff” using their API.

3. Capillary:  Capillary provides Next Generation Customer Engagement Solutions to retailers and consumer facing businesses – with a focus on high quality data capture, actionable analytics, instant cross-sell solutions to generate a far higher ROI on customer engagement for retailers – all delivered through its patent pending cloud + mobile platform.

4. Mobstac : The awesome team @Mobstac will mingle with Hackers and importantly, Mobstac cofounder Ravi Pratap will share the Mobstac Story with hackers. We seriously recommend you to attend this.

4. Jaaga: Jaaga is an awesome location and we partnered with them for our first hackathon. The location is probably the most geek-friendly location we have come across in the recent times.

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PiHackathon Mentors:

Sameer Shisodia: Sameer dons the Product management hat, and runs his own hospitality business (he was earlier cofounder of a mobile startup).  At PiHackathon, he will ask you tough questions, give you a real life version of the problem statement and more.

Siddhartha Banerjee: Adman turned app-developer – well, he will bring the marketing perspective to technology problem you are solving.

Amit Pande: Amit is Director of Experience Studio at Hewlett Packard. He will attend the Hackathon on Sunday and will “grill” on the UX decisions you made regarding the hackathon.

We will also have Ravi Pratap of Mobstac sharing the Mobstac Story. And on Sunday, we will have an informal session with Arjun Narayan of Catmaran Fund.

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Date/Venue

Date: November 4th (3 PM onwards), 5th & 6th
Venue: Jaaga, Bangalore, No 68, KH Double Road, Opp. Coporation Bank, Next to the K H Road Bus Stand, Bangalore – 560027. INDIA  (address here)
Contact Details: Kunalkant: +91 9241 00 9423.

Agenda

Wanna Hack @Hackathon?

Quick Note: UnPluggd Nomination Form

For startups, who want to apply for UnPluggd demo slot, please fill up the nomination form here.

• For the winning team, we will give a CPBX account for 3 months for free with a startup plan  –http://cpbx.in . It is a virtual cloud based phone system which the team can use as a professional phone system for their business.
• All teams building on KooKoo will get a free account(silver egg) and phone number for the next two months.
• All teams building on KooKoo will also get a 4 GB Pen drive.
• One team selected by us ,out of the teams building on KooKoo , will get 5 Golden Eggs for a period of 3 months.

What is KooKoo?

KooKoo is an interface between your web application and the caller. It takes phone commands from you and executes them on your behalf to the caller.The best way to think of KooKoo is as just another web page in your application. Only difference is, the web page is accessible from the phone rather than the browser. So KooKoo is the fastest way to make your data available on the phone channel.

How does Kookoo work?

1. Caller calls the KooKoo number.

2. KooKoo informs your application.

3. You tell KooKoo what to do (Play some text, collect input, send sms, record etc).

4. KooKoo performs the action on your behalf.

5. KooKoo sends you the result of the action to your application.

What are the tags available?

• response: This is the root tag
• playtext: Play some text to your callers
• playaudio: Play some audio to your callers
• collectdtmf: Collect user input from your callers
• record: Record caller conversation
• conference: Conference multiple callers
• hangup: Disconnect current caller
• dial: Make an outbound call

More info about the tags can be found at http://www.kookoo.in/index.php/kookoo-docs

What can you create using the KooKoo API?

Almost anything related to Phones . KooKoo is specifically useful to create mashups. Take an API, mix it with KooKoo and you have a phone mashup.

1. For example, take Zomato’s API, mix it with KooKoo API and you can have call to review mashup, or call to get reviews mashup etc.

2. Take Twitter API, mix it with KooKoo and have a call to tweet mashup(http://blog.kookoo.in/2010/12/add-voice-to-your-twitter-account-using.html).

3. Take Google places API, mix it with KooKoo and create a Justdial (http://blog.kookoo.in/2011/06/build-local-search-on-phone-using.html).

Also, KooKoo can be used to build business stuff like PBX systems, IVR systems etc by maybe hacking OpenVBX(http://www.openvbx.org/).

To get more ideas that can be built using KooKoo, you can have a look at the 314 mashups on Twilio available on programmable web at http://www.programmableweb.com/api/twilio/mashups

Check out the blog(http://blog.kookoo.in) for more interesting ideas.

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Hackathon Agenda

• Get together the evening of 4th November and find a team (or get yours)
• Get your business idea sounded with mentors, PI team, others [Hint: This is your pitch session].
• Get together on 5th morning.
• Start coding.
• Go Home (after 7/8 PM or so).
• Get together on 6th morning. Start coding.
• 6th Nov – evening 4 pm – have a prototype ready.
• Demo to mentors, investors, audience, others from 6 pm to 9 pm.
• Sleep.

Got Questions?

Ask here (in the comment section) or @Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/unpluggd/

How to block your seat?

Make a choice:

Also see:

• Free iPad from Zomato Team/API details.
• #PiHackathon–5 Tickets Sponsored By AngelPrime Team. Come And Hack
• Hackathon Event Details

The problem with formal interview is that people come prepared to sell themselves. Both the buyer and seller are prepared for it. The preparedness isn’t the problematic part but the fact that the other party knows that you have come prepared specifically to sell to him is the problem. Both parties go into a defensive mode and things take longer than required to materialize.

Networking at events are meant to remove the anticipation of preparedness of the other party. Industry events are a great place for initiating casual conversations and then converting it into business. Everybody is moving around looking to strike a conversation. No one is pitching to any one. A business deal comes out of a conversation. There is no “buyer” or “seller” sitting across a table until a deal has already happened.

Specially for shy people like us, who have a lot of apprehension about picking up the phone and making that cold call, events provide a great ice-breaker. There are lot of people around, just tap anyone on the shoulder and start a conversation. Start with easy questions like name, company etc. which is just too dumb to ask on a cold call but not as much in an industry event. Whether you will close a deal during that conversation is not luck but a trick.

The trick of closing deals at events is in coming prepared. At an event of 500 people, there are 499 opportunities waiting to mate with your preparedness and conceive a “lucky deal” for you. Just like babies are not conceived by chance (no they are not, no matter what your grandmother says), luck is also never by chance. You always create your luck. You come prepared with one half of the ingredients and then look around for the right other half. When you find them, your preparedness is tested and then deals happen.

It’s just like walking into a night club with the right perfume, the perfect shoes, practiced dance moves and then casting out the perfect pick up line, waiting for her to react. Yes, it’s not easy, the thought of it would make non-sales people like us nervous. But think of the result, if the act works out, you won’t walk out of the club the way you walked in. Business events are no different, the preparedness required isn’t any lesser, nor is the prize worth any less. You should always know whether you want to walk out with a co-founder, a new hire, a new job, a new client, a better vendor or a potential investor. If you are not prepared you won’t even realize when the beautiful blonde would step on your shoes and walk to the stud on the other side of the dance floor. An opportunity will be missed.

When you know what you are looking for, come prepared.

People who come prepared always walk out with more than just hangover (read inspiration) for the same ticket price. If you want inspiration, you can always follow the tweets and watch the event’s web casting live, in the same way that you can get a hangover even when you drink alone at home. But that’s not what night clubs are meant for, and that’s not what events are meant for. The kick from the drink is only meant for setting the mood right. The loud music isn’t meant to sooth your ears but to cut the noise from the adjacent table. You go to any business event and you will find these ingredients. The Casanovas of the business world always know that these are not the end but means to an end.

Unpluggd is happening again, this November, on the 19th, in Pune. Come prepared and get hitched!

The organizers have made it easier for you this time. Join the unpluggd group on Facebook to know who all will be there. Zero in your targets, come prepared and catch them unguarded.

If you are going to decide on the last day to show up and then expect magic to happen, well then you need to come out of your Bollywood mode where babies happen just by thinking about it.

A wise networker once said, ” ‘A man walks into a bar…’ is not even a complete joke by itself, how do you expect ‘An entrepreneur attends an event…’ to be any better, unless you know what happens next.”

Happy networking! Happy mating!

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[Naman is a startup enthusiast and has worked with couple of Indian startups as Product Manager. He writes at The Inspire Blog]

Well, we now have startups asking for the next Hackathon date (they are now working on exposing their APIs) to partners coming along with ideas and concepts for the Hackathon.
Today, we are glad to share that our partner, AngelPrime team is sponsoring 5 tickets for the upcoming Hackathon (scheduled for this weekend).

AngelPrime is an incubator launched by Sanjay Swamy (ex-mChek) and Snapfish Cofounders, Bala and Shripati and the team has couple of ideas for all ye hackers and designers.

Details: 5 Tickets Sponsored By AngelPrime Team

In their own words:

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We’d like to invite great people to take up the challenge to design and implement prototypes for the following – ONLY us

ing open-source stacks:

• A great transaction browser
  Goodbye to the boring spreadsheet/table/database look – that’s passe’. How would you change how we view banking and other transactions online? Show us your best – allow consumers to tag transactions, add comments, create categories on the fly, post to Facebook/Twitter etc.
• A great SMS and email parser that makes sense of SMS’s and emails
  Keywords are passe’ – we can make sense from SMS’s without requiring keywords by doing a textual search and tag. Build us a great SMS parser that uses open-source tools.

For those who do address these problems and work on delivering us great solutions, we will be happy to reimburse their cost of attending the Pluggd.In hackathon (costs INR 1,800).

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Do fill up the form (embedded towards the end of this article), if you are game (the deadline to apply for this is November 2^nd). We will connect you with AngelPrime team for further queries.

Other goodies:

- Win an iPad (thanks to Zomato, our Hackathon partner).

- FAQ:  FAQ: Hackathon ["I do not have an Idea. Can I Participate?"]

- Ticketing Link: http://event.ayojak.com/event/pluggd-in-hackathon

- More details: http://www.pluggd.in/hackathon

Got more questions? Feel free to ask at the Facebook group.

Hackathon Agenda/Venue Details

Date: November 4th (3 PM onwards), 5th & 6th

Venue: Jaaga, Bangalore, No 68, KH Double Road, Opp. Coporation Bank, Next to the K H Road Bus Stand, Bangalore – 560027. INDIA  (address here)

Agenda:

• Get together the evening of 4th November and find a team (or get yours)
• Get your business idea sounded with mentors, PI team, others.
• Get together on 5th morning.
• Start coding.
• Go Home (after 7/8 PM or so).
• Get together on 6th morning. Start coding.
• 6th Nov – evening 4 pm – have a prototype ready.
• Demo to mentors, investors, audience, others from 6 pm to 9 pm.
• Sleep.

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For startups, who want to apply for UnPluggd demo slot, please fill up the nomination form here.

–Hackathon Form–

* - “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” : quote by Lao Tzu.

Hackathon is a 2.5 day Hackathon-cum-workshop-cum-get-your-product-started event. We aim to connect you to some hands-on experts in each field of the product development during the 3 days.

Importantly, we do not want some potential hackers to be left out of this event because of the cost of entry. Hence we have a contest for you.

So what do you need to do to win a free entry to Hackathon? Tell us about the pain-point you want to solve.

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You need to tweet <what you want to solve around you> followed by #PiHackathon http://bit.ly/pihackathon.

Eg. – Building a twitter app for job classifieds at #Pihackathon. I have the tech. skills, looking for a designer http://bit.ly/pihackathon

OR

There is a need for a parking spot flagging app based on google maps. Wanna join me? #PiHackathon http://bit.ly/pihackathon
OR

<fill this up> #PiHackathon http://bit.ly/pihackathon

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Contest Start Date: 28th OCT

End Date: 1st NOV

Event Venue: Jaaga, Bangalore.
Event Date: 4th, 5th & 6th NOV

Hackathon Rules:

• Winner will be announced on 2nd November.
• Open only for geeks, designers & developers.
• Winner will be announced through reply to his/her tweet and complete list will published on Pluggd.in.
• You have to arrange for your own accommodation & travel.
• Participate if you are thinking to hack/solve problem at Hackathon.
• All rights reserved with Pluggd.in team.

Hackathon Agenda:

• Get together the evening of 4th November and find a team (or get yours)
• Get your business idea sounded with mentors, PI team, others.
• Get together on 5th morning.
• Start coding.
• Go Home (after 7/8 PM or so).
• Get together on 6th morning. Start coding.
• 6th Nov – evening 4 pm – have a prototype ready.
• Demo to mentors, investors, audience, others from 6 pm to 9 pm.
• Sleep.

Hackathon Freebie?

An iPad! Build interesting hacks on top of Zomato APIs and the best hack will win an iPad! (details here).

So what are you waiting for? Hack!

Update[3/11/11]: And the winners are:

1. @rahul8590
2. @jay_vijay
3. @rohan_rockz

That is?

Features: P1>P2>P3..?

Many a times (actually most of the times), you end up deprioritizing some features who lose out to other important ones. They end up becoming a P2 feature – and eventually the list of P2s pile up and is generally lost in the entire (product) development cycle.

Bring back the list and ask yourself – which ones were really important? There are a certain P3/P4 requirements (like change the logo in company’s Facebook page, messaging changes etc.) which are generally lost in the ‘big scheme of things’.

Can one of those P3/P4 features make the product look more appealing? If yes, then do it.

Features: P3<P2<P1<Lean And Thin

This Diwali, remove junk from your existing feature set.  There are features that exist in your product which nobody knows of! Can you get rid of that junk?

Fire up your Google Analytics, track pages and cleanup the mess. The baggage of junk features, sometimes gets in the way of scaling and use Diwali as an excuse to cut the flab.

The Dog Food

Of course, the dog has to eat the dogfood and Pluggd.in will share the cleanup drive we are conducting on the site. There are few sections which were full of ‘junk’ and we have decided to cull them off. We are also coming up with improved UX in the coming days – so stay Pluggd.in!

And meanwhile, Pluggd.in team wishes Happy Diwali to all! Enjoy the firecrackers! Have a good time with your family.

And do tell us what mess are you cleaning today?

Happy Diwali from Pluggd.in Team

Like we said earlier, the Hackathon has a much BIGGER agenda than stated.

1. 2 winning entries get to demo their hack at UnPluggd, India’s largest startup event.

2. For the first time ever, Indian homegrown companies will be able to market their APIs at any Hackathon platform (read: Pluggd.in’s Hackathon: The What, When And Why Of It!). In short, we dare to try stuff which others haven’t even thought about.

And today, we are glad to announce our first Hackathon partner – Zomato.

Zomato APIs @Hackathon = Fun + iPad

Zomato is a NCR based startup that offers listings of restaurants/foodie joints/lifestyle places in 10 cities. The company has 17,800 listed restaurants and served 1,425,634 foodies alone in the month of September, 2011.

Zomato launched its API few days back and at Hackathon, you get to play with the API and create cool stuff around it (API link: http://www.zomato.com/api)

The API lets you search in our 18,000 restaurants, covering 10 major cities in India, based on various criteria. Details of all the features provided by our API is provided in the documentation, along with example code. Further, we have also provided an API Sandbox, where you can test your requests. Zomato’s mobile applications use the same API – you can also refer to them for ideas and potential uses of the API.

Now coming to the main point – i.e the most delicious part about the Hackathon! Create damn cool stuff using Zomato API and you get to win an iPad!

The iPad goes out to the most creative app/best use case of Zomato’s API and for the others who work on Zomato API, they also stand to win some very cool stuff.

Need more convincing :- ) Just come over. And Hack.

Hackathon Agenda/Ticketing Details

- Ticketing link

Date: November 4th (3 PM onwards), 5th & 6th (entire day) – i.e. 2.5 days event.

Venue: Jaaga, Bangalore. (address here)

Agenda:

• Get together the evening of 4th November and find a team (or get yours)
• Get your business idea sounded with mentors, PI team, others.
• Get together on 5th morning.
• Start coding.
• Go Home (after 7/8 PM or so).
• Get together on 6th morning. Start coding.
• 6th Nov – evening 4 pm – have a prototype ready.
• Demo to mentors, investors, audience, others from 6 pm to 9 pm.
• Sleep.

Got more questions? Feel free to ask at the Facebook group.

PS: If you are a student, please connect with us (before buying the tickets).

UnPluggd Details

• Event Date: November 19th, Pune.
• Demo Slot Nomination for Startups: Form link (Deadline: November 6th, 2011).
• Ticketing site link: Ayojak or DoAttend.

While the Pluggd.in team is working hard to create an immensely great experience for hackers, here are a common FAQs that will help you understand more about the event:

Qn: I do not have a  team. Can I Participate?

Answer: YES. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.(Lao-tzu)”. So come over.

Qn: Frankly, I do not have an idea. Can I still participate?

Answer: YES.

Come over. There will be a lot of people who will have amazing ideas. Talk to them and you will soon find yourself hacking along.

Qn: Is it that I am expected to ONLY use the APIs from Indian companies?

Answer: NOT at all. Come up with your own stuff, your own creation and as you see-fit, use APIs from homegrown companies (this ain’t mandatory though).

Qn: The winning entries get to demo at UnPluggd (in Pune). Who arranges for the travel? cost etc?

Answer: You. We are giving you a BIG platform to launch your product. Like any other participant, you are expected to arrange for your travel etc.

Qn: I am working for <a big (MNC) company>. Can I still participate?

Answer: YES.

Qn: We are a startup and would like to send our team to develop stuff that we have been planning for quite some time (and never got the time to). Shall we?

Answer: YES. Use this opportunity. You will be amazed to see the results.

Qn: I am a student. Can I participate?

Answer: YES. We have students coming from B-schools to participate in the event. Do connect with us (for a special discount meant only for students)

Qn: Is it necessary for winning entries to demo @UnPluggd?

Answer: NOT at all. It’s your choice and will be a function of your seriousness towards going full-time with the product.

Qn: I am not a geek, but a marketer/sales guy/girl. Should I participate?

Anwer: Why not? Building a product requires multiple hats – but ensure that you are willing to learn (new stuff), unlearn and open to news ideas. That is, if you are enterprising by nature, you should be present at Hackathon

Qn: Is there a winning prize also?

Answer; Yeah baby! Wait for Monday and we will announce that (and trust us, you will love it!)

Qn: Can I pay at the venue?

Answer: Yes. But we recommend that you buy tickets online (helps us plan the operations).

Qn: Who are the mentors?

Answer: Details will be announced next week.

Qn. Do I have to buy both Hackathon and UnPluggd tickets?

Answer: Not at all. Buy tickets individually (link: http://unpluggd4.ayojak.com OR http://unpluggd.doattend.com). There is no association between the two events as far as ticketing is concerned.

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Hackathon Details

• Date: November 4th (3 PM onwards), 5th & 6th (entire day) – i.e. 2.5 days event.
• Venue: Jaaga, Bangalore. (address here)
• Ticket: Rs. 1800/. Early bird discount: Rs. 1400/ (use the code: HACKBUDDY, extended till today). The ticket price includes lunch/coffee/snacks etc. during 2.5 days of the event

Recommended Read: Pluggd.in’s Hackathon: The What, When And Why Of It!

Hackathon : Agenda

• Get together the evening of 4th November and find a team (or get yours)
• Get your business idea sounded with mentors, PI team, others.
• Get together on 5th morning.
• Start coding.
• Go Home (after 7/8 PM or so).
• Get together on 6th morning. Start coding.
• 6th Nov – evening 4 pm – have a prototype ready.
• Demo to mentors, investors, audience, others from 6 pm to 9 pm.
• Sleep.

Got more questions? Feel free to ask at the Facebook group,

This is a quick reminder that early bird offer for UnPluggd and Hackathon ends today, i.e. October 20th.

Key Dates

Pluggd.in’s Hackathon

• Date: November 4th (3 PM onwards), 5th & 6th (entire day) – i.e. 2.5 days event.
• Venue: Jaaga, Bangalore. (address here)
• Ticket: Rs. 1800/. Early bird discount: Rs. 1400/ (use the code: HACKBUDDY). The ticket price includes lunch/coffee/snacks etc. during 2.5 days of the event.
• Ticketing site link: Ayojak or DoAttend (use the discount code: HACKBUDDY, valid only till Oct 20th).

Recommended Read: Pluggd.in’s Hackathon: The What, When And Why Of It!

UnPluggd Details

• Event Date: November 19th, Pune.
• Demo Slot Nomination for Startups: Form link (Deadline: November 6th, 2011).
• Ticketing site link: Ayojak or DoAttend (use the discount code: PIBUDDY, valid only till Oct 20th).

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Hackathon Agenda

• Get together the evening of 4th November and find a team (or get yours)
• Get together on 5th morning.
• Get your business idea sounded with mentors, PI team, others.
• Start coding.
• Don’t’ Sleep.
• Don’t Sleep.
• 6th Nov – evening 6 pm – have a prototype ready.
• Demo to mentors, investors, audience, others from 6 pm to 9 pm.
• Sleep.

For any query/suggestion, join our Facebook Group: http://facebook.com/groups/unpluggd/

Smartphones, social media, the latest app: mobile solutions are becoming more and more central to our lives and work. And each innovation seems to come faster than the last, capturing our imagination and revolutionising the way we communicate.

Have you also thought up a great IT idea that could shape the future? A digital business solution perhaps, a concept to make the mobile life of consumers or business people even more mobile? If you have, then we’d like to invite you to take part in an international innovation contest: CODE_n12.

CODE_n12 is about anything and everything new. The contest’s theme is “Shaping Mobile Life”, and its aim is to uncover the 50 best business ideas for digital mobile solutions. The winners will be showcased at the world’s leading technology show, CeBIT, which takes place in Hanover from 6 to 10 March 2012.

Whether your idea is an imaginative IT-based business concept, a new type of product or an innovative application, the CODE_n12 contest is a unique opportunity for all kinds of business start-ups, recently founded companies and high-flying IT experts to display their solution before an international audience – and become part of a global innovation network. Submissions can be innovative hardware or software, services or technology.

The CODE_n12 initiative was launched by GFT Technologies and is supported by renowned Strategic Partners: Ernst & Young, Fujitsu Technologies Solutions, Deutsche Messe, BITKOM and ZKM. A jury of leading IT experts, scientists and business specialists will judge all entries before selecting the 50 most promising concepts. To provide a suitable setting for the ideas at CeBIT 2012, internationally renowned artist Tobias Rehberger and the architect Jürgen Mayer H. have designed a spectacular innovation showroom, which will also be the meeting point for the avant-garde of IT.

The highlight of the entire competition will be the prize ceremony at CeBIT. One winner will be presented with the CODE_n12 Award together with a cash prize of €25,000 and two years’ free business mentoring from experienced managers from the initiative’s Strategic Partners.

Entries to the CODE_n12 Global Innovation Contest must be submitted by 30 November 2011. To apply, please complete the forms, available online here.

Cracked the code for a future innovation? Then tell the world and take part in our contest! If you have any questions regarding the contest, contact the CODE_n Team.

You can also follow us on

- Facebook: www.facebook.com/codeofthenew

- Twitter: www.twitter.com/code_n

- Blog: www.blog.code-n.org

[This is a sponsored article]

The nomination process for India’s largest startup event, UnPluggd has begun and starting today, we will accept the nomination from startups to demo at the event.

As with UnPluggd’s last editions, 10 startups will be selected to demo their products at the event and the selection process involves Pluggd.in team (Ashish & Pratyush to be precise) + Panel of Judges (we will be announcing the panel very soon).

Most importantly, we are conducting a Hackathon 2 weeks before the event and 2 winning entries from Hackathon will get a chance to demo their product at UnPluggd.

Demoing at UnPluggd

Grab an opportunity to demo your product in front of India (and South East Asia)’s Entrepreneurial + Business & Investor audience – and gain that ‘extra edge’ over your competition. If you are a technology product startup and can fight your way to grab the demo slot (only 10) in front of India’s most active angel investors, VC and early adopter community, potential customers – grab your chance.

Send in your nomination right away (last date to apply is Nov 6th) – here is the link to nomination form(form also embedded at the end of this post).

Nomination FAQs

Qn: Who Can Apply?

Early stage technology product startups. Preference is given to startups who are launching at UnPluggd.

Qn: What is the Nomination Process like?
Once the nomination is closed (deadline is Nov 6th), 30 companies will be selected and these companies will be contacted via email. We (i.e. the panel) will schedule meetings/skype conference with the companies in order to understand their business in depth. Out of 30, the final list of presenting startups (10) will be selected.

Qn: Who sees my submission?
The Pluggd.in team (Ashish Sinha & Pratyush Prasanna). At a later stage, we will announce the panel and you can choose not to share details with a panel member, if you aren’t comfortable with the names (for competitive reasons).

If you are selected for further rounds, we will get in touch with you to discuss more details/process.

Qn: I want to launch my product at UnPluggd!

Nothing like launching your product at an event where you can derive maximum eye balls – right from angel investors to VCs, media and most importantly, early adopters. Send in your nomination right away.

Qn: Do presenting companies have to pay?
Nothing. Presenting companies DO NOT have to pay to showcase at the event. Having said that, you will have to bear your travel/stay/entry charges.

Qn: What about Nomination? Is it free?
Yes. Free as in, Free.

Qn: We are still developing the product and plan to launch it by Nov. Are we eligible?
In general, we don’t want to showcase just prototypes, but we suggest that you go ahead and nominate your startup. If you have a matured prototype (with thought-thru’ use cases), we would surely love to have you at the event.

Qn: I am a services company. Should I apply?
Pluggd.in has always been about product startups and that’s where we will focus this time too. Of course the event itself would be a great opportunity to meet potential customers, startups and cool people.

Qn: We haven’t yet started making money. Shall we nominate ourselves?
Well, it takes a while for product companies to monetize in India. We respect IP (Intellectual Properties) and would love to have your nomination.

Qn: Who are the VCs attending the event?

Pretty much all the known names. Apart from VC firms, a lot of angel investors will be present at India’s finest Startup event, UnPluggd.

Qn: I have more questions.
Do join our Facebook group (http://facebook.com/groups/unpluggd/) and ask the question there itself. Otherwise, you can ask here (in the comment section) or get in touch asap [email: ashish@pluggd.in]. Do mention “UnPluggd” in the subject line.

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Block Your Seat

You can block your seat (for Hackathon/UnPluggd) from either of the two ticketing sites: Ayojak or DoAttend.

Discount Code: PIBUDDY (for UnPluggd tickets) and HACKBUDDY (Hackathon).

Nomination Form

Dont miss India’s best and most relevant startup event!

UnPluggd will be preceded by a Hackathon where we will get the best and brightest among you, get them in a room and ask you to hack away and create a product.

At Hackathon, we will provide you with all the infrastructure necessary along with suitable mentors who will be with you throughout the full event. They will guide you, ping you, ask you tough questions, help you in design, help you get on to a cloud server setup fast, use APIs – the works. In short they will help your dream of a product become reality. And of course the food is free – you have to get your own beer.

2 Winning Entries Will Get A Chance To Demo Their Product At UnPluggd. And in these 2 weeks, our mentors, Pluggd.in team will help you sharpen your focus, sharpen your tools so that you can actually build a product/a working prototype in 2 weeks time and showcase that to the world

So go ahead, register here and see you at Hackathon and Unpluggd!

Hackathon: Agenda

Get together the evening of 4th November and find a team (or get yours)

Get together on 5th morning.

Get your business idea sounded with mentors, PI team, others.

Start coding.

Don’t’ Sleep.

Don’t Sleep.

6th Nov – evening 6 pm – have a prototype ready.

Demo to mentors, investors, audience, others from 6 pm to 9 pm.

Sleep.

Who can participate?

Anybody and everybody – you could be a designer, engineer, marketer.

Students are especially encouraged.

Why should you participate?

The largest journeys are often started with a single step. This is YOUR first step and what better avenuethan where seasoned professionals and startup guys are around to help you take that. Build your firstprototype and kick some ass.

Are outstation participants allowed?

Of course. You will be missing out on some cool stuff if you don’t travel for this. Especially peoplefrom in and around like Mangalore, Cochin, Chennai, Pune – actually all of India is a flight away from Bangalore. So just land up at 3 pm on the 4th of November.

What does it cost?

You can book your tickets here. There is an early bird discount for some time – so don’t be late. We have kept the pricing to be very affordable.

Discount code
For UnPluggd : PIBUDDY
For Hackathon : HACKBUDDY

The dates clash with another event or exams or my girlfriend’s birthday?

In the last case you can get your girlfriend along (no discount). In the other cases, life is short and prioritization is important – go wherever you think you can get most mileage out of.

We will be sharing more details soon – so stay Pluggd.in!

- For any queries, join the UnPluggd Facebook group and ask qns.

Pluggd.in team is super excited to announce the next edition of UnPluggd – #UnPluggd4 which is scheduled for November 19th in Pune.

Over the last three editions, UnPluggd has come out as the India’s largest platform for technology startups and we continue to outdo ourselves with a different format, candid speakers and importantly, great startup demos.

We will soon announce details of the event/startup demo slots, but if you are a startup who wants a BIG launch platform – you know when to launch your product.

This time, apart from Entrepreneurs, VCs/Angel investors, we are also bringing in media companies/partnerships and have them look at India’s top notch Indian technology startups. We will soon announce the details, but recommend that you block the date/finalize your travel schedule in advance.

UnPluggd4 – Details

Date: November 19th (Saturday)

Venue: MES Auditorium, 131. Mayur colony, Near HDFC Bank, Near Karishma chowk, Karve Road, Kothurd, Pune , India.

UnPluggd4 – You Decide

Like Pluggd.in, UnPluggd is all about the community and we’d like to understand your expectation/incorporate your suggestions regarding the event content/format. Do join our Facebook group and have your say in the next edition. Tell us what do you want from us.
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Snapshot from last UnPluggd event