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Entrepreneurship storytelling with Nasscom’s Friday 2.0 sessions

friday_2_0.gif If you are a technology entrepreneur and based out of Delhi, you should book your date with NASSCOM’s Friday 2.0 sessions. These experience sharing talks are organised on the 2nd Friday of every month at the NASSCOM office in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. The idea is to get people from emerging companies to share their best practices in the areas of technology, marketing, business strategy, entrepreneurship etc., so that others could learn from them without having to reinvent the wheel. These talks are free to attend (unlike the talks that TiE organises) and are open to members & non-members of NASSCOM alike. NASSCOM wants more and more people (startups & emerging companies) to be benefit from these talks, hence they have been kept free of any attendance fees. The sessions are archived on the NASSCOM Emerge blog, and lately, they have also started shooting videos and sharing them on one of the video sharing sites for others to follow remotely.

These talks are not new- in fact, they have been organised for a couple of years now, but given that 2.0 is the ruling flavor these days and symbolises maturation, growth, repositioning, re-orientation etc., they decided to christen the sessions NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0.

Check out this page for details about previous sessions.

TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008 announced!

2.jpgCanaan Partners (in association with TiE) has rolled out the second edition of the TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge, a national level business plan competition for early stage entrepreneurs in India. The business plans entered in the contest will be evaluated by a selection panel. Eight entries will be short-listed for mentoring before the final presentation to the jury. The top three winners will be announced in mid June. A bunch of goodies awaits the winners –

– Post event mentoring for 3 months by NASSCOM, Canaan Partners & members of the Jury.
– Direct participation in the Deal Flow Session at TiEcon Delhi 2008
– Coverage in print & electronic media, enabling them to build awareness about their companies & products

All the eight shortlisted entries will have access to investors from TiE, Indian Angel Network & other early stage investors during the final event.

The challenge is open to early stage Indian entrepreneurs who have already incorporated their companies in the areas of Technology or Services (i.e. IT, internet, software, telecom, mobile, education, BPO, KPO etc). This is where you can download the business plan template and this is where it needs to be uploaded for submission into the contest.

The previous edition of this contest was held in 2006 (which make this a bi-annual event) and its winners included Infozech Software, Vegayan & 6 Dee.