In every Pune OpenCoffee Club meet, you can’t help but notice the energy that Entrepreneurs bring with them. It is exciting and infectious. However, the Pune OCC is proving to be more than just about youth and learning. On July 3rd, Neeraj Arora of Google’s Corporate M&A wing, Neill Brownstein and Anjana Kaul of Footprint Ventures spoke about their respective organizations and philosophies. Over 50 Pune OCC members turned up for the event. (more…)
Have Energy Unlimited
July 4, 2008 · No Comments
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Happy to see all the action on POCC!
June 25, 2008 · 1 Comment
When I started the Pune Open Coffee Club in March 2008 on the suggestion of a friend, Vijay Anand (Founder, Proto.in), little did I know that in a short span of three months, the Club would attract over 200 members.
Anjali and I used to brainstorm ways of marketing POCC, and one of the ideas that really helped was coinciding our first major POCC meeting with the VC Circle conference in Pune in April. Since the conference was filled with investment bankers, the VCs who wanted to meet entrepreneurs came to the POCC event 
It’s exciting for us to see new members joining the Club every week, especially with all the action they’re bringing with them.
Here are some of highlights of June and July in case you’ve missed something.
Entrepreneurial Judgment
April 10, 2008 · 2 Comments
Quote of the day on Entrepreneurial Judgment by Marc (pmarca),
You’d better not have a lot of doubts about what you are doing because everyone else will, and if you do too, you’ll probably give up.
Of course, an entrepreneur’s doubt avoidance is only a plus right up to the point where it becomes pigheaded stubbornness that interferes with her ability to see reality, particularly when a strategy is not working.
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Movers and shakers of Pune’s startup world visit BookEazy
April 7, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Pune OpenCoffee Club meetup was an unqualified success. Over 70 POCC members made it to the networking meet. Pune’s startup eco-system is undoubtedly buzzing with life.
Some of the startups that attended are 42, Aftek, ApnaBill, BookEazy, Business Gateway, Career Vidya, Desicrew, Dial-a-meal, Druvaa, GlobalLogic, GridLogic, Hover.in, ImageLogic, Komli, Lipikaar, Mobikon, Niyuj, Omni Bridge Systems, ProductDossier, Pringoo, SpringComputing, Sofomo, Tastykhana, TechZemplary, and Zmanda.
Our guest list included Niren Shah, MD Norwest Venture Partners (India), Mukul Singhal, Canaan Partners, Anand Deshpande, CEO Persistent Systems, Chetan Shah MD Synygy India, Hemant Joshi and Shirish Deodhar of nFactorial who took time off to make it to the event and interact with other entrepreneurs. (more…)
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Nurturing the Pune Startup Eco-System through Open Communities
March 19, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’ve been helping the Pune OpenCoffee Club bootstrap itself here in Pune. The community is designed to help Tech. Startup Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Advisors, Investors and everyone else.
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More quotes on rollercoasters and entrepreneurs
March 15, 2008 · No Comments
I had no idea Shakespeare said this,
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt!”.
The founder of Mint.com encourages you to stay on track.
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