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Power of the BITSAA Network for the BITSian Entrepreneur |
Alagu Periyannan, Jayan Ramankutty, Prem Jain, Punita Pandey, Raju Reddy, Vivek Paul |
Mar 19, 2006 |
Event Archives available here |
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Funding for startup:
How to raise your first round? |
Jayan Ramankutty Founder/CEO - Yume Networks |
Jun 25, 2006 |
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| 3 |
From idea to success: The Pinnacle Systems Story: From start to $350 million and a successful exit |
Ajay Chopra, Venture Consultant - Trinity Ventures
Founder - Pinnacle Systems |
Jul 15, 2006 |
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| 4 |
“Hot Areas for Startup" Series I: Mobile value-chain: Perspectives on enterprise mobility |
Sundeep Gupta, Director of Product Management & Marketing, Orative |
July 29, 2006 |
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| 5 |
Experiences of a first time entrepreneur - things to do and things not to do |
Manish Rathi, Co-founder/Director of Engineering - Retrevo Inc |
Aug 12, 2006 |
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| 6 |
Zeevo – A startup’s journey through ups and downs |
Vikram Gupta, Director of Engineering, Broadcom; Founder, Zeevo |
Aug 26, 2006 |
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| 7 |
Back from the dead – Redback & Blue Coat - valuable lessons for entrepreneurs from these turnarounds |
Shailesh Shukla, Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Juniper Networks; ex-Vice President of Strategy, Redback Networks & Alagu Periyannan, CTO BlueCoat Systems |
Sep 2006 |
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| 8 |
Is MBA important to be an Entrepreneur |
Sanjay Nath, Loxodrome Solutions |
Sept 2006 |
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| 9 |
Leveraging hungry MBA students at Haas for you next startup idea |
Sanjay Goil, MBA candidate, UC Berkeley Haas, to-be-soon entrepreneur (also Phalguni Nanda & Aanand Krishan) |
Oct 2006 |
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| 10 |
Corporate Executive to a startup CEO |
Vivek Pendharkar, CEO – Velogix |
Oct 2006 |
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| 11 |
Early stage offshore R&D: benefits and pitfalls – from entrepreneurs who have been there, done that. |
Raju Reddy, Founder/CEO – Sierra Atlantic & Amar Kapadia, Sr. Director Mkgt, Emulex; Founder Aarohi Communications. |
Nov 2006 |
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| 12 |
Importance of Sales, Marketing and Advertising |
Kamal Anand, VP, Marketing and International Sales – Meru Networks |
Nov 2006 |
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| 13 |
Opportunities in India |
TBD |
Dec 2006 |
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| 14 |
“Hot Areas for Startup” Series – II TBD |
Panels of various entrepreneurs and VCs |
Dec 2006 |
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