a guide to the pune opencoffee club for startups

A Guide to the Pune OpenCoffee Club

Santosh Dawara.

Picture taken by LeCercle.http://www.flickr.com/photos/lecercle/

Who are we?

• A 100% community-driven and community-owned network.

• Since 2008!• Locations– http://punestartups.org,– punestartups@googlegroups.com,– LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=73451), – Twitter (http://twitter.com/punestartups).

Represent, strengthen the Startup eco-system in Pune through community

and real-world events.

Picture taken at “Financial Basics for Startups”, POCC 2012.

Activities

• Startup & Industry Connects.• Startup & Investor, Accelerator Connects.• Events for,– Startups show case their inventions.– Share and learn technology-centric innovation.– Learn the basics of creating a company.– Networking online and offline.– Hackathons.– Movies, Football, Fun!

Where do we Stand (2012)?

• 40 to 100 attendees for every event.• Adding 50 to 100 new free registrations across

online forums.• 8,000+ unique visitors per month to

punestartups.org.

• We’ve never been stronger and we’re growing well!

Where could we do better?

• We need to do a better job of engaging startups as they grow.– We’ve got new ideas on how we can do this and

need coordinators to take this forward.

• We don’t have 12 regular events in the year.– A single event coordinator cannot take on a

complete annual event calendar.

My Point …

We’re still missing YOU!

– NONE OF US IS AS STRONG AS ALL OF US.

– We’ve made it effortless for you to setup a startup meet and draw an audience.

Contribute

• Every year we raise money for the website.• Donate Rs. 500 / Rs. 1,000 towards the

website to help us in our efforts.

• To RSVP for the fundraiser, click here.• To wire the money electronically, email

santosh@tinkeron.com.