RSS FeedThanks Everyone For Making It To The VC Circle Forum In Bangalore
Sat, 12/01/2007 - 07:31 — Sahad P VWe were taking a bit easy from posting on Friday since we had to manage our first event. Yes, VC Circle Forum at Le Meridien in Bangalore on Friday had a great turnout despite scores of other events and seminars in the city, and we trust everyone who attended the event went back home happy. The panel discussions were terrific, thanks to a great lineup of speakers. We thank everyone (about 120 attendees) who took time off to attend the forum and made it a success. We had a good mix of investors, entrepreneurs, companies and service providers attending the event. We had to limit our capacity because of hotel constraints, and apologies to all who could not be accommodated because of space limitations.
We will post some pictures over the weekend, and also a snapshot on what the panelists spoke. Your suggestions are welcome on how to do events even better next time. Finally, we want to thank our sponsors UTI Ventures (Principal Sponsor), o3 Capital Advisors (Lead Associate Sponsor) and Blend Financial Services (Supporting Sponsor) for making this event possible.
Update: Click on the photo below to see the whole set of pics (VC Circle Forum, Nov 30, Bangalore).
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I still wiah a program CD is made available to the one`s who missed it out.please consider,
Dear Sahad,
Thats a pleasant surprise with me on your homepage..cheers!
Great event & thank you again for organising it.
Rgds
sarfraz!
Thanks Sahad for organizing such a wonderful event.
The second panel was really useful to understand where the early stage money is going and what is the investor's perception.
Hope to see more such events soon
Siva
Excellent forum and great job, Sahad - thanks a ton!
Both panels were fantastic - the first, a growth capital panel, consisted exclusively of those that had invested in either public or going-to-IPO companies, and as you might have imagine, have been very successful over the last seven years.
The second, a VC forum, revealed that VCs aren't averse to sub $1 million investments, though their sweet spot may be higher. Quite interestingly, you might have wanted to be there if you wanted a career as a VC - the dark side of that life was discussed as well.
Look forward to more events like this - the key being "small" and "focussed", take away either of the two and you may lose it all.
hey,
a webcast or a presentation or a writeup ...please share anything you have..
Congratulations on the success of the event at Bangalore.
I would like to know, if you have any plans to organise such an event in Mumbai. I would be keen to be part of such an event.
cheers
Sahad, Is there a webcast available for the same event. I would definitely like to know more about the agenda and discussions. Congrats again for organizing wonderful events.
Dear Sahad,
It was an extremely well organized event . Served as a good platform to gain better insight into the industry and couldnt be a better way but through the Stalwarts of the industry : Sudhir Sethi, Raja Kumar, Hetal and Mohanjit Jolly.