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Entries invited for TiE Pune Business Plan Competition

Posted on November 3, 2011 by navin

TiE Pune (the Pune chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs) has announced a business plan competition for management colleges, reports Sakaal Times to be held in December. Excerpts: The winners and runners-up of this competition will participate in the Asia level … Continue reading →

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Pitch your startup/product at Startup Saturday Pune

Posted on November 2, 2011 by navin

Mohit Bansal from Startup Saturday Pune writes: If you are interested to present your startup to the event audience for a brief 2-4 slot min called the Lightning Pitches, please mail with details to mohit {at} Lpad {dot} in. We … Continue reading →

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Getting a loan for your startup – SMSBlocker’s experience

Posted on October 19, 2011 by navin

Most startup founders are not aware that you can get a bank loan of up to a crore under the CGTMSE scheme, without requiring any collateral, just on the basis of the business plan. And those who have heard about … Continue reading →

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Pune Startup QualitiaSoft featured at Startup Event Unpluggd

Posted on July 11, 2011 by navin

Twitter user @sudhir_sgp points out that Qualitia, a Pune-based startup, was one of the startups featured at startup event UnPluggd (in addition to Next Leap which we talked about earlier). Qualitia has a software product to help you improve your … Continue reading →

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Pune entrepreneur develops cap with solar-powered fan to keep you cool

Posted on June 13, 2011 by navin

A Pune entrepreneur, Vivek Bhatia, has successfully started manufacturing a solar-powered mini-fan attached to a cap that can keep people cool on hot summer days, reports DNA India. The fan with plastic blades is fitted on the cap’s bill. A … Continue reading →

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Mobile video site Vuclip (by ex-Punekar Nickhil Jakatdar) get $8M funding

Posted on May 24, 2011 by navin

Vuclip, a browser based videos-on-the-fly service targeting mobile devices, has received $8 million in funding from NEA and Jafco Ventures. Vuclip is the 4th startup of successful serial entrepreneur Nickhil Jakatdar. Nickhil is a COEP alumnus, an angel investor who … Continue reading →

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Pune Startup SheepStop covered by YourStory.in

Posted on May 17, 2011 by navin

Pune’s SheepStop, a crowdsourcing T-shirt design company, has been covered by YourStory.in. There is a nice interview with Bhagyashri, the co-founder of SheepStop which gives a number of interesting tidbits of information about SheepStop, including: SheepStop is an eco-friendly company. … Continue reading →

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POCC Meet on Rohan Dighe’s story (SocialWebFactory / DealTadka) – May 7

Posted on April 21, 2011 by navin

Santosh Dawara writes: Rohan is an entrepreneur and Founder, CEO at Social Web Factory for over 3 years now. I met Rohan first in 2007 when he had just turned 22 years of age. It was impossible to miss the … Continue reading →

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Startup Garage – create a new startup in one weekend

Posted on April 12, 2011 by navin

Mohit Bansal of http://Lpad.in is organizing a Startup Garage in Pune in the last week of April. Full details are at http://garage.lpad.in. At Rs. 2000 per person, this becomes a “paid event” and hence not eligible for the PuneTech main … Continue reading →

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Interesting Person: Maneesh Bhandari

Posted on April 11, 2011 by navin

Maneesh Bhandari had his own security software company in the US, which he ran for 10 years, and sold a few years back. After this successful exit, he moved to Pune. Now he mentors other startups, invests in a few. … Continue reading →

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