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Indian Angel Network announces India’s largest and first-ever multi-city start-up bootcamp.
This event would give an opportunity to both budding as well as established entrepreneurs to gain access to IAN angel members as well as certain power-packed panel discussions on various fund-raising challenges.
Further, to inspire entrepreneurism beyond the niche social circles – the event would also involve certain innovative formats such as an element of mass online voting to help selecting the short-list of winning start-ups and ideas. It would also host ‘Ideas Marketplace’ at every centre : wherein selected ideas would be given an opportunity to convince the participants of their ideas in 3 minutes and gain ‘proxy investments’ from them. The winning ideas would then also be given an opportunity to get incubated by IAN Incubator.
You are requested to please login on http://www.boot-camp.in for further details or send a mail to us info@boot-camp.in for any further details.
The submissions open from March 2, 2011 and will close on different dates at various centres. Kindly check the site for more information.
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Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets – primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people – to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.
Startup Weekend is coming to India for the first time starting in Delhi from 4th to 6th March at the American Center. Entrepreneurs, developers, designers, hackers, pr/marketing/biz dev people are invited to come pitch their ideas and go from ideation to prototype in a weekend and pitch to investors on Sunday evening.
Check out http://delhi.startupweekend.org and http://bangalore.startupweekend.org for more details!
Discounted Registration is only Rs. 2,000 and discount codes are available through our partners.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Pankaj
For?
Entrepreneurs and Yatris interested in Climate Trading/Finance and
starting from scratch!
What?
Spend 3 days [Feb 17 – 19] at the India Habitat Center in New Delhi
attending a cutting edge residential certification program in
Environmental Finance, Clean Development and Climate/Carbon Trading
and Finance organised and delivered by leading experts from Multi
Commodity Exchange (MCX), TERI, IIT Kanpur, WRL and FT Knowledge
Management. Earn a leading Industry Certificate in this area. Get
equipped. Start a venture.
Why?
Environmental Risk Management has assumed importance in the present
scenario of looming climate change risk and its adverse long-term
repercussion. Global concern on energy efficiency and environmental
management has given rise to new financial instruments in the form of
carbon credits and energy and weather derivatives. This Programme
equips you on the latest developments in carbon trading and the
weather/clean development market.
Learn:
– How can a energy project utilize carbon credits to finance green
projects?
– Which are the most remunerative green projects?
– What are the costs and How can these be financed?
– Hedging/Insuring resource risk such as minimum sunshine hours or
wind velocity through weather/climate derivatives/insurance
– Links with financiers, technology providers and experts.
– Operational Kit to start work immediately once the project manager
returns to his/her base.
CONTACT
sonu.agrawal@weather-risk.com with CODE:VW in the subject line for special discounts for VW readers.
The students of NIT Durgapur, India have come up with an interesting concept. The GNU/Linux Users’ Group there has been running an online judge for programming contests name “CodeCracker†for sometime now. Having enjoyed a substantial amount of success in the number of participants over the years they decided to start looking for sponsors for the event. Nothing special there.
What is different though is that they want to bring start-ups and potential employees face-2-face. It is very difficult to find good people for start-ups and this might be a way to solve that problem. Go ahead and read the details on the CodeCracker sponsors’ page. They will be happy with any small amount for sponsorship.
Link: http://codecracker.in/sponsor.php
About us: CoolJunk is a DIY Kits maker and supplier company. We also host didactic practical training in physics and electronics for school students on our kits. We currently have presence in 8 schools covering more than 300 students and sold over 350 Kits (made decent revenues).
Website: http://www.cooljunk.in
Blog: blog.cooljunk.in
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/worldofelectrons/
Intent: CoolJunk is looking to raise an angel investment of Rs. 25,00,000-30,00,000. We are looking forward to expand the team, reach more schools and improve the product.
As an investor, if you have interest in Education Sector, please contact us asap at info@cooljunk.in.