Pune Barcamp5

This is my 2nd barcamp @ SICSR, Pune (earlier being BC3). Weather on Saturday was just like pre-monsoon season, more suitable for enjoying long drives than attending tech sessions :-)

Well about BC5... it wasn't as interesting as BC3 barring a couple of sessions. Recession seems to have an impact on BC5 too ..., NO sponsors, NO free T-shirt, NO free lunch ....

Some notes from interesting sessions I have attended

Startups and Venture Capital

• Startups should consider approaching good VCs to seek seed fund, guidance, direction, and industry connections
• VCs generally look for good idea, its scope and market size, motivation of the team, domain expertise, leadership and execution skills in startups

Its advantageous for startups if their idea is backed with patents and has scope for fallback if required (part of the idea may be marketed to serve another purpose or another set of users).

Typically the process of meeting, convincing and successfully seeking funds from VCs last anywhere between 4 - 6 months. On the average, VCs stay invested in startups for about 7 years with typical investment size of $1 to $10 million.

This talk was given by people from headstart...

Guy Kawasaki may have different thoughts on this topic though ....






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Theme: Security is an integral part of IT hence none should take it for granted

Group of enthusiastic people have come together to spread cyber security awareness. The plan is to have regular get-together and share knowledge pertaining to cyber security.


Why you should use Twitter


This is an interesting session. Till I attended this session, I never appreciated twitter and treated it like just another social networkish time waster (of course it is unless one really makes use of what it has to offer as a good communication platform).

The best part of twitter is

• Short messages would do, don't need to worry about composing big post (but at the same time blogs helps improving writing skills :-) )
• Messages can be posted / received through various means to twitter (mobile SMS, messenger, web, standalone apps such as TweetDeck)
• With good network, useful information flows in
• Keep up to date on topics of interest by creating filters? (ex: #bcp5 to get updates related to Pune Barcamp5)
  
• Helping hand can come from any corner of the network, even if you are not connected to them

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