Announcing the first Startup Morning event in Chandigarh. The event is being organized by Xtreme Startups – a Non-Profit initiative to support / promote entrepreneurship. Xtreme Startups is supported by Chitkara University , Morpheus Venture Partners (MVP) and Startupnews.in

Event Details:

“Start-up Morning/Evening” events are organized with the support and help from a lot of friends in the startup community. Previous editions of the event have been held Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune. In all events we were more than houseful on the capacity, participation was intense and interesting discussions took place. Read coverage here.

Xtreme Startups team is excited to announce the first “Startup Morning” in Chandigarh Tri-City:

What will you gain from the event?

• Opportunity to interact with others in the startup ecosystem
• Share and learn from each others experiences in running businesses
• Potential to meet a business partner, investor, employee, etc.
• Opportunity to build a strong startup community in the Chandigarh Tri-City region

See you on Sunday! (for invites write to sameer AT morpheusventure DOT com)

Tags: chandigarh startups, chitkara, Chitkara University, morpheus venture partners, MVP, startup evening, Startup event, startup morning, Xtreme Startups

Well – we did a media interaction yesterday in Chandigarh in collaboration with TiE to spread the world on entrepreneurship in the region and guess what? All three major newspaper have carried the article today

• Hindustan Times: Let’s Talk Business
• The Tribune: Recession override (Scroll down to find the article)
• The IndianExpress: What an Idea! (Link will be updated later. After looking for fifteen minutes I realized Indian express has not uploaded the today’s news paper on its website – now that’s an Idea which does not make sense to me)

Tags: Chandigarh, entrepreneurship, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, madhouse media, morpheus venture partners, MVP, nandini hirianniah, Punjab, sameer guglani, TiE, Tribune

The MVP team will be conducting a full day event on entrepreneurship  @ Lovely Professional University , on 2 April 2009, in collaboration with LPU & TIE. Details below. I am very excited about the event and look forward to interacting with the students.

LPU has built a state of the art campus near Jalandhar with around 30k students already attending various courses.Aadhaar Invite

Tags: Business Plan, entrepreneurship, LPU, MVP, startup eco system, Startup event, TiE

(This post got deleted as part of some migration – putting it up again)

The MVP team will be doing an interaction about entrepreneurship and sharing the entrepreneurial journey with the audience at the “TiE Luminaries session” on Thursday 26 March 2009.

Mr J S Bedi, Chairman Gian Jyoti Institute of Management and Technology has coordinated with TiE Chandigarh to have the session at their campus:

Address: Gian Jyoti Institute of Management & Technology,
Phase-2, S.A.S Nagar (Mohali)

The session will start at 3 PM. In case you are planning to attend, we request all of you to be there on time.

Looking forward to meeting some interesting folks.

Tags: Chandigarh, Mohali, MVP, nandini hirianniah, sameer guglani, startup talk, TiE, TiE Luminaries

Techcrunch reports the news about 2 million investment in YC from Sequoia and prominent angel investors (Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit and Aydin Senku) . They also report that YC will now be doing 60 companies / year, up from 40 / year.

This is another big validation for the business accelerator model pioneered by YC and adopted by folks like techstars, seedforum and MVP. The premise of model is that the cost of doing business has gone down significantly. With the right support, guidance and capital of around 15-20K USD it is very much possible for team of Young, Talented , Focused and Passionate entrepreneurs to build a business with significant value. Which means businesses with good user traction, evolved products and business processes, revenues, break-even and more.

These initiatives are obviously good for the VC industry, and its good to see it officially recognized. The specialized and organized support for the super early startups is resulting in stronger startups, which means returns on the investments of the VC firms will be higher and more number of VC investments will lead to creation of successful companies.

Another important aspect of this model is the special focus and availability of active support from founders of companies working alongside in the same batch as well the alumni founders. All of these folks have experienced creating real companies and have unique capabilities, contacts and experience which proves useful for other folks part of the program at YC  / Techstars / Seedforun / MVP.

Read my previous about “First time entrepreneurs (FTEs) – Building businesses in India“.

Tags: Angel investor, MVP, Paul Buchheit, Ron Conway, Seedforum, Techstars, Venture capital, Y combinator

Tags: MVP, startup evening, startup evenings

The MVP gang is launching “Start-up Evenings” with the support of a few firms who are involved with start-ups and a lot of friends in the community.

The First edition of Start-up Evenings will take place on 20 Jan-09, Tuesday in Mumbai.

Concept

The idea behind “Start-up Evenings” is to facilitate “close interaction” between founders of young companies and experienced folks, allowing the founders to learn from the champions (the tricks and hiccups of the trade), and to network.

The event will be monthly, with one edition each in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.

We did some sessions as part of our founders meet and saw that it was extremely useful for the founders and hence by popular demand decided to conduct regular “Start-up Evenings“.

Format

• Event will be attended by 10-15 founders of start-ups from the MVP portfolio, partners portfolios and other founders
• There will be one guest of the evening who will share his / her experiences and interact with the start-ups in an informal manner
  
• The guest will typically be an experienced entrepreneur / investor / a person from the start-up ecosystem
• There is no fee for attending but participation will be only by invitation
• No more than 15 participants will be allowed to keep the focus of the event
• Typical timings: 0700 pm – 0900 pm

This is a non-profit initiative and we would love to hear from you if you would like to collaborate on it. There is no requirement of any sponsorship for these events, since we are going to keep them quite bootstrapped. Some of things which can be help would be:

• A conference room / venue at your office for these events once a month (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore)
• Arranging / suggesting speakers
• Spreading the word amongst start-up founders
• Anything else

Feel free to share your thoughts / feedback on the initiative. If you are interested in helping / contributing in any way, write to nandini AT morpheusventure DOT com

Tags: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, founder, investors, MVP, startup, startup evenings, Startups, VCS

If you are a genuine online citizen, a online job seeker, or an individual looking for a partner online. You may have been looking for a way to showcase / highlight the trustworthiness of your profile and claim advantage over the fake / fraud online profiles. Your wish has come true.

After successful introduction in US, an MVP portfolio company, Crederity is launching its consumer services in India.

• You can create a FREE account here.
• Add your credentials (address, education, experience and more) and have Crederity verify them for you.
• You will get a “Crederity Card” which you can proudly display on your site, blog,  online or offline resume, social networks, online matrimonial profile or anywhere else you want.
• It instantly highlights the “trustworthiness” of your profile and markets your profile to help you stand out and improve your prospects.

The team has worked hard to create a seamless service experience for both businesses and individuals. Any feedback from you will help to improve further. Go ahead, give it a spin and share your views.

Tags: Crederity, identity verfication, MVP, online jobs, online matrimony, online verification

Check out the post with comments and photos from the founder’s meet

Making It Natural: First MVP Founder’s Meet

Tags: founders meet, MVP, MVP founders Meet