The buzzing entrepreneurial spirit was palpable at the Startup Saturday Bangalore at the Microsoft campus on 12th May at the plush corporate community of Embassy Golf Links, a.k.a. EGL.
This being my first such event attendance in India, I doubted its content and intent. It turned out surprises in bursts; similar to Internet speed in India.
I had known that there is a buzzing entrepreneurial community in Tech Valley Bangalore and was probably waiting to see its spirit through this event.
Saturday morning in Bangalore is just a normal day as it reverberates the buzzing and hissing sounds of servers and server farms across the globe, like a continuous undercurrent. Rather than a general good sleep, people talk about ‘taking calls from bed’ and doing the ‘surya namaskar just after the client call’ from a sleeping-geography, and handing over to awake-geography.
This was organized in association with Open Coffee Club Bangalore (http://occbangalore.org/) and AppNotch (http://appnotch.com/)
AppNotch (by SECLabs): This helps build native mobile apps using AppNotch – Mobile App builder on cloud. Following statement of its Founder is worthy of mention here, “Indian IT guys are better in project management than any in product management / development”. It is 100% pure cloud based end to end framework for Android and iPhone apps. Its demo was hit as ease of use development. Mobile App development in cloud could bring in lesser mortal developers. They were accompanied by their development and deployment partner TECHCATER (http://www.techcater.com/) .
Microsoft Bangalore campus, on the doors of which it is written ‘Inaugurated by Bill Gates’, was reverberating with startup sneezes and speeches. I felt good for Bill, as the man who was listed as the richest man for a decade or so, has so well utilized his hordes of money to form the powerful ‘The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’. Money put to good use of larger causes.
Microsoft BizSpark (http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/) was introduced to the crowd. Its offerings to the startups simply brought the Vow! factor visible to the crowd-of-creators.
“Rentoys (http://www.rentoys.in/)” - – India’s first exclusive toy rental company, brought home the point – No Play, No Learning. Their talk was based on child parent interaction in the context of NO(w), WHY(not) and WHAT(if). It touched a sensitive nerve with entrepreneur parents and challenging questions were lofted.
“Beedio (http://www.beedio.com/)” – This startup builds on the flipside of TV viewing.
“ZiggZog (http://www.ziggzog.com/)” – good startup effort to tap questions of children. This received lot of questions from the entrepreneurial crowd with free consultations and killer features.
“Shopperson (shopperson.com/)” – this startup showcases smarter, easier way to save. Missed Call signup is a catchy feature.
“KOSA ENDORSEMENTS” – This startup talked about branding using advertising. Their business card reads – ‘A dynamic advertising firm responsible for molding your ideas and creative content on cups in an effective and efficient manner”
All the best to the buzzing entrepreneurial spirit of Bangalore! Now I do believe what one of my former boss told me that if one has an internet connection then there is no difference between working from Boston or Bangalore / Chicago or Chennai / Detroit or Delhi / Miami or Mumbai.
Wondering is it too US oriented; it is. Is some entrepreneur listening?
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