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Pune based crowdsourced organic T-shirts startup @SheepStop covered by ET

Pune-based SheepStop, which sells organic T-shirts whose designs are crowdsourced has been covered in an Economic Times article. Excerpts: The Dixits put in a seed capital of Rs 3 lakh and launched Sheep-Stop in September 2009. The money also helped … Continue reading

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Pune’s MindTickle in Business Today’s “15 Coolest Startups” Cover Story

Pune’s MindTickle, a startup working on “gamification” of enterprise employee engagement, has been covered in in Business Today’s Cover Story “India’s Coolest Startups”. Excerpts: Poorvi Agarwal’s first day at work was a lot of fun. The sales executive at travel … Continue reading

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Startups Note: NSTEDB Seed Fund for funding from Rs 2L to 50L open

Venture Center, the entrepreneur development center that is housed in NCL has recently received approval under the scheme “Seed Support System for Start-ups in Incubators” of the National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science & Technology … Continue reading

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Startups please note: Rahul Chowdhri from HelionVC is visting Pune on Jan 11

Rahul Chowdhri, from Helion VC is visiting Pune on 11th Jan. He has time in the morning and wishes to meet local startups. If you’re a startup and wish to meet Rahul, please get in touch with Vishal Pai Vernekar … Continue reading

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LiveBlog: Companies Presenting at TiE Pune Nurture Program Graduation Event

In the last 6 months, TiE Pune had an initiative called Nurture where they selected 6 startups who were provided with 6 months of mentorship by TiE Pune. Today, these companies “graduated” from Nurture, and TiE Pune had an event … Continue reading

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Pune Startup WiC selected by TLABS – ToI’s Accelerator Program

Arun Purohit, Founder of WiC, writes: WiC has made it to TLABS of Times Internet . http://tlabs.indiatimes.com/wic.html We showcased our ‘Made in Pune’ proudct at IIT Bombay E summit on 28th and 29th Jan . http://ecell.in/esummit/startup-expo/#Simplibuy

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Pune Startup Programr featured on TheNextWeb; crosses 25k Facebook Fans

Rajesh Moorjani, Founder of Programr writes: I’m glad to share that our startup Programr just got featured on TheNextWeb , one of the US’s top Technology News sites. You can read our article here: http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/01/03/programr-the-code-school-with-a-hands-on-community-based-approach/ Last week we have also … Continue reading

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iWeekend Pune Covered on ET Now’s Starting Up

iWeekend Pune was held earlier this month and is described as: iWeekend is an intensive and innovative experience that brings together talented entrepreneurs and professionals of different profiles to select 3 ideas and bring these ideas to reality by collaboratively … Continue reading

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Entries invited for TiE Pune Business Plan Competition

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

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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