Fwd: Announcing Startup Saturday Kolkata - February Edition

[Mitesh Ashar]

Register: http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/event/18/

About Startup Saturday Startup Saturday - under the umbrella of the Headstart Foundation - is a monthly networking hub for entrepreneurs across five cities. Startup Saturday kickstarted in Bangalore in March 2008 and subsequently the concept spread to Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata. 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. Who should attend? Entrepreneurs Technology & Business Researchers Startups Investors Service Providers Aspiring Entrepreneurs In fact, anyone who is interested!! All of you are welcome to our monthly Startup Saturdays and be a part of the growing Kolkata ecosystem. Also, however hard we may try to tell this, you will believe it only when you land up at one of the Startup Saturdays: We are not a forum that's focused only on `Technology`. We are thriving to have entrepreneurs from all sorts of businesses - both online and offline. Media coverages Headlines India - 8 December, 2009 CNBC TV18 - 27 November, 2009 The Telegraph - 7 October, 2009 Kolkata Mirror - 16 September, 2009 Headlines India - 13 September, 2009 ET! Now - 11 August, 2009 Questions If you have more questions, feel free to buzz, email or tweet us: Sumit Datta 9239562331 mail tweet Mitesh Ashar 9821622622 mail tweet   Social Media

Speakers' Speak "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