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		<title>HeadStart in a Nutshell &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a very busy and Entrepreneurial Friday as well as weekend !!!.There was an interesting Entrepreneurship event at &#8216;Indian Institute Of Science,Bangalore&#8216; namely HeadStart. Though the dates of HeadStart and Proto overlapped with each other, there was quite a decent crowd and a great Panel [which included Entrepreneurs as well as VCs].Hats of to the [...]]]></description>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_45R1xOye4y4/R5TdfSV7BcI/AAAAAAAAAqM/Rc2DAaApdL8/s1600-h/HeadStartLogo.png" rel="lightbox[1858]"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_45R1xOye4y4/R5TdfSV7BcI/AAAAAAAAAqM/Rc2DAaApdL8/s320/HeadStartLogo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157991002815530434" border="2" /></a>Had a very busy and Entrepreneurial Friday as well as weekend !!!.There was an interesting Entrepreneurship event at &#8216;<a href="http://www.iisc.ernet.in/">Indian Institute Of Science,Bangalore</a>&#8216; namely <a href="http://www.headstart.in/">HeadStart</a>.</p>
<p>Though the dates of <a href="http://www.headstart.in/">HeadStart</a> and <a href="http://www.proto.in/">Proto</a> overlapped with each other, there was quite a decent crowd and a great Panel [which included Entrepreneurs as well as VCs].Hats of to the organizers of the event !!!</p>
<p>Though, I could not blog the event live, there were certain very interesting topics , some of which I have recorded on my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player">PMP</a> <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" /> and are given below:</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Ram Shriram , Founder of Sherpalo Ventures</u>:</span><br /><span><a href="http://www.sherpalo.com/about/meet_ram.php">Ram Shriram</a> expressed his views on <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Internet and the changing scene of Internet</span>. He also touched upon Mobile v/s internet and why the mobile market is so hot in India </span><img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" /></p>
<p><span>He was on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcast">webcast</a> from his Menlo Park office and it was a great privilege to listen to this initial investor in Google&#8230;</span></p>
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<p></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Srini Vudayagiri , MD of LightSpeed Ventures</u>:</span><br /><a href="http://www.lightspeedvp.com/TeamMember.aspx?m=38"><span>Srini Vudayagiri</span></a> gave a very interesting presentation on <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Identifying  and validating business opportunities</span>. His presentation covered on all aspects of Opportunity, right from Ideation to Delivery. It also gave a lot of insight into how VC&#8217;s fund, how they are <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" /> and some of the other aspects of VC funding !!!</p>
<p>The most interesting question that he asked the audience was <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">&#8220;Which is the largest VC firm in the world&#8221;&#8230;..and guess what, the answer is </span><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bseindia.com/">Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)</a></p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ganapathy Subramanium, Ex VC &amp; founder of MyDuniya</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/gansub">Ganapathy Subramanium</a>, founder of startup <a href="http://www.digitalstrait.com/">MyDuniya</a> and an ex VC with <a href="http://www.iciciventure.com/">ICICI ventures</a> and <a href="http://www.jumpstartup.net/ourpeople.html">JumpStartup</a>, gave an interesting session on <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Startup Funding</span>.The most interesting statement which he made during his entire session was : &#8220;<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">There are 3 kinds of people who would fund your business at a very early stage namely 3F&#8217;s [Friends , Family, Fools]</span>&#8221; &#8230;. So, is he referring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_investor">Angel Investors</a>/<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2002/07/22/focus4.html">Seed Investors</a> as Fools </span><img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_wink.gif" alt="wink" title="wink" height="15" width="15" /> Enjoy the complete session below&#8230;</p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><u>Note</u></span>:<br />a. There might be some disturbance in certain , part of the audio so please bear for the same.But definitely these sessions are worth listening !!!<br />b. <a href="http://harisays.wordpress.com/">Harinath Pudipeddi</a> has blogged the event live and is an excellent reference of the entire event.You can refer to Day 2 sessions <a href="http://harisays.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/headstart-day-2-morning-session/">here</a> &amp; <a href="http://harisays.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/headstart-day-2-afternoon-session/">here</a> and Day 3 sessions <a href="http://harisays.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/headstart-day-3-morning-session/">here</a> &amp; <a href="http://harisays.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/headstart-day-3-afternoon-session/">here</a>.</div>
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