Fwd: Reminder - SS Kolkata on 11th! Also, consider taking our survey!

[Mitesh Ashar]

FYI!

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From: Startup Saturday Kolkata <kol...@headstart.in>
Date: Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Subject: Reminder - SS Kolkata on 11th! Also, consider taking our survey!
To: mit...@headstart.in

Hi! We invite your peresence at the latest Startup Saturday tomorrow, more information about which you can find on the event page at http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/event/53/. At HeadStart Network's Startup Saturday Kolkata, we are committed to run a platform to serve you & create business value for you! Hence, we are constantly questioning ourselves about how we can keep transforming the platform to keep generating value for the community! We invite you to support us in the same by taking a short survey, which should ideally take up only 4-5 minutes of your valuable time. We value your feedback & seek your support to evaluate your needs from the platform. You can reach the survey at http://bit.ly/sskolsurvey Hope to collect some great & valuable feedback from you! See you tomorrow! Regards, Mitesh Ashar Co-Founder HeadStart Network Foundation
Startup Saturday - under the umbrella of the Headstart Foundation - is a monthly networking hub for entrepreneurs across six cities. Startup Saturday kickstarted in Bangalore in March 2008 and subsequently the concept spread to Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune. The rationale behind a Startup Saturday is to provide a monthly platform where local entrepreneurs, professionals and students can get together around engaging talks from veterans in the startup industry. Each event has a loose theme and relevant speakers from the chosen theme. The audience plays an active role in shaping the discussions and brain storming is to be found aplenty.
"Startup Saturday, I think is the best thing, which has happened to Indian entrepreneurs, because it gives you a lot of open opportunities to discuss your ideas with a lot of experienced people as well as people who are getting into entrepreneurship now, the companies who are transiting from a basic state of business to a successful company!! I hope it soon grows bigger from the 5-6 cities they have already started, to around 40-50 cities." Vikram Kumar, Founder - DataResolve Showcased his business at SS Kolkata in November 2009 "I think Startup Saturday is a great forum for budding entrepreneurs & a platform for budding & current entrepreneurs. It's a great way to connect, network, form partnerships & get feedback" Arundhati Dutta, Founder - Juice Station Took the Reality Test at SS Kolkata in November 2009	"I found the environment at Startup Saturday to be quite informal (which is very good) and I found a different level of energy among members, which is very important to make entrepreneurship happen in Kolkata. We were conceptualizing Seeders and crowdsourced the name (i.e. Seeders) and the tag line (i.e. We Seed, you Grow) from the OCC Kolkata community within few minutes. We felt obliged and decided to do our launch at a Startup Saturday event. We got very encouraging response and a fantastic event was put together where Dr. G.D. Gautama kindly came and launched Seeders. The event was a thorough success and the audience was just right. On behalf of Seeders, I am thankful to HeadStart for creating this platform and I am confident we will work together on several projects in time to come." Abhishek Rungta Co-founder - Seeders Inc. Founder, Indus Net Technologies Launched Seeders and was a speaker at SS Kolkata, September edition