I am looking forward to participating in the First Edition of MVP Founder’s meet. Its a full day event being held at Fortune Select JP Cosmos, Bengaluru (Off cunnigham road) on 17 December, 2008.
Participants include our portfolio founders from Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, a couple of other startup friends of MVP and a few well known folks like:
- Subrata Mitra from Accel . A very active and succesful early and growth stage VC firm working with startups in India, USA, China and London
- Sharda balaji from Novojuris – a legal firm with special focus on working with Startups
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Indus Kaitan, Chief Plumbr of Sezwho. Indus has spent 10+ years in building startups in silicon valley . SezWho is a universal profile service for the social web – a popular startup in Silicom valley.
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Harish Gandhi Alok Mittal from Cannan. A leading VC Firm working with startups in India, US and Isarael. (Update: Harish came in place of Alok and we had a great session with him)
- Ananya Majoomdar from Times Private Treaties
Agenda:
- Internal Sessions with MVP companies
- Duration: 30-40 minutes each
- Format : Interactive sessions
- Goal:
- Give the presenting company founders LIVE access to brains, thoughts and ideas of 10-15 peers.
- They can gather a lot of fodder for thoughts and get inputs on some key business problems
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Part 1 : Presenting company talks about their Business (5-8 minutes)
- Whats the product
- Whats the market
- Whats the team
- Present status
- Plans going forward
- Key Challenges / important business problems they are working on
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Part 2: Other company founders will provide (25-30 minutes)
- feedback
- ideas
- views
- potential solution to the mentioned business problems
- ask questions
- point out risks etc
- External Sessions with Investors / Entrepreneurs etc
- Format: Informal interaction, Q & A, discussions, know each other etc
- Number: 2-3 Sessions
- Duration : 60 minutes each