Sukshma

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.

Boundless energy and enthusiasm are part of the Entrepreneurial profile. Of all the faces in the Pune OCC, of the founders pairing up to start, you just can’t tell which company is going to be the next big one out of India.

The newer Pune OCC members have been asking if the OCC was working with a blueprint or a plan. It does not. Just like the other OCC’s (especially Chennai), the Pune OCC was started to accelerate networking and so far it has worked incredibly well.

Our real-world regular meetups help build trust and familiarity between the attendees and guests. This in turn serves as a foundation for more meaningful interaction down the line. There are other organizations, like the recently resurrected TiE Pune that will provide the structure, discipline and other necessary characteristics for the rest of the startup eco-system to work.

Thank you Navin for covering the details of the event on PuneTech.

~ Santosh

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Ken Banks devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world, and has spent the last 15 years working on projects in Africa.

In his essay, Mobiles in Africa: A Travellers Perspective, Ken Banks describes the entrepreneurial spirit thriving in Africa around the mobile industry,

“..Mobile phones are attached to bikes (two and three wheelers), and even boats, and taken to where the business is. In Uganda these bikes, known locally as boda boda’s, are hooked up with spare batteries and desktop mobile devices to create what are affectionately known as Bodafones”.

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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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I happened to come across this relevant post on on the value of business ideas.

Quote for the day: The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.

“Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

Explanation:

AWFUL IDEA = -1
WEAK IDEA = 1
SO-SO IDEA = 5
GOOD IDEA = 10
GREAT IDEA = 15
BRILLIANT IDEA = 20

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The exploding job market over the last 4 years has made many believe that the “resume-view” of their careers is the view that matters.

The resume-view has clear breaks with one paragraph dedicated to each employer and a defined period attached to each. The more employers on the resume, the longer it will be. The more skills on the resume, the longer the skills section will be. And, the greater the brand value of the employer, the better the resume.

Frankly, I’m not surprised why the resume dominates career thinking. (more…)

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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