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  • Workshop For Startups – Mr. B.V. Jagadeesh

    Startup Saturday Ahmedabad is organizing a Workshop for Startups on Saturday Jul 28, 2012.

    Workshop For Startups By Mr. B.V. Jagadeesh

    Date: 28th July 2012
    Time – 3.00 – 7.00
    Venue : CIIE, IIMA Campus
    Registration Fee – Rs. 100

    Workshop Details:
    1. Entrepreneurs Register For The Event Online [ Registrations Closed For Pitches ]
    2. Top 3 Startups Get To Pitch To A Large Audience
    3. Workshop By Mr. Jagadeesh On The Art Of Pitching And The Nuances Of Running A Business, Using Live Case Studies
    4. Mr. Jagadeesh Will Also Take One On One Questions To Help You Find Solutions To Your Business Challenges

    Workshop Will Cover:

    Peer To Peer / Role-Play
    Audience Introduction And Deep Dive Into Ideas Of Those Who Are Looking To Startup Or Have Just Started Up
    Listening Skills For An Entrepreneur
    ·         Listening To The Customer (Pre Sales, After Sales)
    ·         Co-Creating A Product, Opportunity Recognition And Leveraging One’s Experience, Need For Research And Prototypes
    ·         Testing The Venture Idea In The Market And With Target Customers
    The Art Of Pitching
    ·         Angel Funding / Vc Firm Funding / Institution Funding
    ·         Market Valuation – When To Do? What Is Its Goal?
    ·         Elevator Pitch
    Marketing
    ·         Product Management
    ·         Needs And Wants Of Customers
    Sales
    ·         Building Sales Team
    ·         Geographical Expansion
    ·         Sales Compensation
    ·         Retaining Your Customers / Get Repeat Orders
    Building Executive Teams
     
    Company Case Study
    Current Scenario
    O   Two Directions
             Product Model
              Service Model
    O   Enterprise And Consumer
      Different Models
    ·         Saas
    ·         B2B
    ·         B2C

  • RIP Rajesh Khanna

    Alvida Rajesh Khanna Sir. True Superstar. Remembering The Famous Dialogue From Anand. Respect. Salaam. RIP

    The Following Clip Seems Apt Today !

  • MockingBird – Quick Wireframe Tool

    MockingBird – Quick Wireframe Tool

    Distributed Teams are a reality. The quick and best ways to drive the vision are always welcome ! One of them is MockingBird !

    MockingBird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.

    It helps to create quick and cool mockups. It is a web-based tool and allows you to share mockups via PDF or PNG formats. Check it out !

  • July 7 2012 – 116 Years Of First Indian Movie Screening

    July 7, 1896 – The First Movie Screening In India Happened On This Day ! An advertisement appeared in the Times of India on July 7, 1896, inviting people to witness “the wonder of the world”. Lumiere Brothers’ showcased the six soundless short films at Bombay’s Watson Hotel on July 7, 1896. Unlike in the West, no one in the Indian audience ran out at the image of the train speeding towards them – the Indian viewers took the new experience as something already familiar to them.

    Then the film industry grew like there was no tomorrow ! Of course, the Indian Film Industry’s first home made production release of full-length indigenous silent feature film was Raja Harishchandra n 1913.

  • InfoStretch Named Among Top 75 Workplaces in the Silicon Valley

    InfoStretch, a leading provider of enterprise QA and mobile solutions is named among the top 75 workplaces in the Silicon Valley by the Bay Area News Group. It ranks #27 in the mid-sized company category. Previously, InfoStretch has been recognized among the hottest companies in Silicon Valley by 411, was among top 20 fastest growing companies by Silicon Valley Fast Private, and was named as top 1000 in the Inc. 500|5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies.

    InfoStretch has seen some phenomenal growth in the last couple of years, both in terms of new client acquisition and organic growth within the current customer base. Very recently, InfoStretch signed up its 100th customer, a milestone which came out of dedicated efforts from various teams and company’s vision and leadership. “We are on the path to take InfoStretch to the next level, and getting this award is good recognition for our strategy,” says Rutesh Shah, President and CEO at InfoStretch Corporation. “I firmly believe that happy employees bring growth and success for the company and our goal at InfoStretch is to ensure that all our employees are happy,” he added.

    InfoStretch’s HR and recruitment team has been instrumental in achieving this goal. “Our job here is to recruit top talent and to give the best to our employees, so that they thrive,” says Rhonda Wallace, HR Manager at InfoStretch. “Whether it is better benefits and attractive retirement plans, or community services and family picnics, we make sure to cover all bases to create a positive company culture,” she added.

    Visit InfoStretch awards page to learn about our success, our careers page to see the current job openings, and our clients page to see what they’re saying about us.

    About InfoStretch Corporation

    InfoStretch is a leading provider of mobile and enterprise QA services and solutions. Our offerings range from enterprise QA, mobile application development, testing, and automation to certification and sustenance. We’ve been providing expert solutions and services to various large and strategic players in the mobile ecosystem including enterprises, carriers, app stores, VAS, and ISV’s to actualize their mobile and QA strategy very successfully.

    We offer the most cost effective, secure, and scalable models to service our clients across various verticals such as banking, healthcare, education, and entertainment to name a few. Our innovations have allowed us to provide an SLA of 24hours and the ability to scale and test over 2,000 apps a day.

  • Evolution And Adoption Of Enterprise Mobility

    NASSCOM Enterprise Mobility initiative conducts first webinar on “Evolution & Adoption of Enterprise Mobility”

    With advent of high speed communication protocols and enabled devices, the paradigm has changed in 21st century. The enterprises are now becoming more ‘customer focused’ and are driven to be on Field, on Foot and MOBILE. Tracking this adoption trend, National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) today announced the NASSCOM Enterprise Mobility initiative (N-EMi), aimed at creating awareness and broad base understanding of emerging technologies, facilitate knowledge sharing, create a community of technocrats and highlight local products.

    NASSCOM also conducted its first webinar under N-Emi on “Evolution & Adoption of Enterprise Mobility” focusing on the journey of Enterprise Mobility trends and future adoption forecasts and will cover the Enterprise class Mobile Applications on platforms like iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry. This Webinar was aimed at aggregating the best practices, capture data trends, share knowledge and acknowledge innovation in Mobile market space.

    Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Rajiv Vaishnav, VP, NASSCOM, said, “Transitioning to a mobile environment asks for more agility and complexity digestion beyond imagination. However, nothing has been more evolutionary in recent times, than ‘MOBILE’, in terms of Customer reach, Customer convenience and Customer retention. Enterprises have tremendously adopted and adapted to this new channel and are continuously evolving marketing campaigns specific to this new genre. This initiative from NASSCOM will lead this emerging wave and will hatch it into platform to project Indian Industry’s cutting edge competitiveness and innovation driven differentiation.”

    The rate of introduction of new technology is much faster now and will continue to grow at an even more rapid pace. The year – past and present – is the year of mobile adoption, and this mobile revolution has come about through consumer apps and enterprise apps. Indian IT organizations are investing in building platforms to drive future growth opportunities. Clearly, the future of technology services industry is beyond services – it will be a combination of services, solutions and platforms.

    “We are excited to be an integral part of NASSCOM’s Special Interest Group. InfoStretch Team will contribute in all possible manner to achieve objectives set out by NASSCOM. Our panel expert Ashok Karania, Head – Enterprise Mobility Sales & Strategy, will share market insights and emerging mobility trends. He is a thought leader in Enterprise Mobility domain and has worked with leading enterprises to develop and implement a long term comprehensive mobility roadmap for business transformation and competitive advantage.” said Palvinder Singh, InfoStretch.

  • NASSCOM Enterprise Mobility Initiative (NEMi)

    NASSCOM, the leading Global Trade Organization, announces the launch of Nasscom Enterprise Mobility Initiative.

    With advent of high speed communication protocols and enabled devices, the paradigm has changed in 21st century. Today, enterprises are highly networked and like to be more ‘Customer Focussed’. This tireless lunacy for Customer Connect is driving Enterprise to be on Field, on Foot and MOBILE.

    Transitioning to a mobile environment asks for more agility and complexity digestion than can be imagined. Security is yet another aspect which is getting higher on C-suite agenda with adoption of cloud. But nothing has been more evolutionary in recent times, than ‘MOBILE’, in terms of Customer reach, Customer convenience and Customer retention. Enterprises have tremendously adopted and adapted to this new channel and are continuously evolving marketing campaigns specific to this new genre.

    Tracking this adoption trend, NASSCOM is leading the wave front to aggregate the best practices, capture data trends, share knowledge and acknowledge innovation in Mobile market space. This high visibility initiative will be hatched into platform to project Indian Industry’s cutting edge competitiveness and innovation driven differentiation. A diverse and acumen group has been empanelled to drive the initiative forward.

    Objective of Enterprise Mobility initiative (EMi)
    • Create awareness and adoption of new breed Enterprise Mobility technologies.
    • Recognize service/product readiness of Indian intellect at global scale
    • Deliberate the industry and confluence solution providers
    • Promote innovation as roadmap for Mobility as focus area

    The Initiative will be transition into Industry Forum and will be driving research, debate and innovative practices.

  • The Power Of Idea – India’s Biggest Startup Search

    The Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), IIM Ahmedabad, our MoMo Ahmedabad Partner, proudly presents the 2012 edition of India’s largest start up search program- The Power of Ideas. The Economic Times, Department of Science and Technology and CIIE have once again partnered to continue the efforts of strengthening the Indian start up ecosystem.
     
    The program aspires to identify and support the most innovative idea and early stage enterprises and support them through mentoring, incubation support, cash awards and seed funding. This year the corpus of the program has been increased to a total of INR 6.2 crore with 4 crore marked for seed funding and INR 2.2 crore to be disbursed as cash awards.  The program is sector agnostic and hence wide variety of start ups (including non tech start ups) can benefit from it.

    To know more about the programme: www.ideas.economictimes.com
    To participate in the programme: www.ideas.economictimes.com/participate. 

    The deadline for submission of the Business Summary Format is June 25, 6pm.

    If you have a specific query/feedback about the programme, share it with us or contact:
    Economic Times: etideas@indiatimes.com
    CIIE : poi2012@ciieindia.org
     

  • 3 Idiots Online @ Yahoo Movieplex

    Watch All Movies of Vidhu Vinod Chopra @ Yahoo Movieplex – Free !

    http://in.video.yahoo.com/movieplex/

  • Enteprise Mobility Practices In Retail – MoMo Event

    Mobile Monday is back with a Business session on Enterprise Mobility practices in Retail Industry. Retail today has become one of the most lucrative & rapidly changing industries. On the one hand, the pace of change continues to ramp up and customer attention spans shorten. On the other hand the lines between old and new retail practices. Digital is bleeding into physical retail (and vice versa), the wallet is merging into the smartphone, global retailers are moving into local markets, manufacturers are becoming retailers (and retailers manufacturers)…and on it goes. The nice, neat dividing lines of times past have been obliterated forever. The result is a gloriously messy, but positively exciting retail landscape.

    Day & Time:
    Monday, June 11, 2012 from 6:30 PM to 8:30

    Venue:
    Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE),
    IIMA New Campus
    Vastrapur
    Ahmedabad
    India

    Registration : Click Here !

    About the Speaker:

    Mr. Vijay Shah
    Head of SAP Practices | Future Group

    Mr. Shah is an IT Professional with an experience of 23+ years as IT Strategy Leader. He has worked with the leading organizations like Reliance Communication, Essar, Aegis, and Bristlecone India. At Future group Mr. Shah is heading SAP, Packaged Applications, Retail Applications – POS, SCM -Development and Support.