Editor’s note: Salute to Omee’s effort in compiling our 4th guest newsletter. May your weekend totally rock! asha@rodinhood.com
My Dear Fellow Rodinhooders,
I have been listening to the saying: “Unity is strength” since childhood, but its only in this community, did I actually get to experience it first hand.
Being an IT freelancer for almost all my life, I have experienced and shared most of my ups and downs with few dear ones. This platform, this group gives me great energy and positive vibes to not only march on but also, most importantly the feeling that “I am not alone”. And that is why I want to share the ‘Samgachadwam’ mantra and its meaning with you.
We have a heavy weight newsletter for you this week !
Right from Graduation in Entrepreneurship to FIFA, 2G VOIP App, Social Enterprise & NGO Funding, PR, Secrets of App business, Speed Dating, failure lessons, to music, dance and business of Bollywood…. and so much more!
5th July – Startup Grind Delhi NCR Hosts Ambarish Gupta (Knowlarity)
Ambarish is the CEO and Founder of Gurgaon-based cloud telephony startup Knowlarity Communications (funded by Sequoia Capital).
Discount coupons especially for Rodinhooders & they are giving a free Uber ride for upto Rs. 500 each way to come and go back from our event. The coupon code for the rides are on our event page.
9th July – Digital Personalization – 1:1 Conversations with Millions (webinar)
In this webinar, the speaker will demonstrate how one can use simple open source tools and some web services to create a website which adapts to the user through explicit targeting and artificial intelligence that listens to them and gives them what they are actually looking for.
Speaker : Jacob Singh (Country Head, Acquia – India)
13th July – HeadStart Higher – Mumbai
Headstart’s Speed Dating event for Startup founders and rockstar Candidates
If you are looking to recruit rock star talent in Mumbai or around, go on this date !
Today (4th) is the last date for the extended booking !
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19 July – TheRodinhoods Mumbai Open House
Location: NSE – National Stock Exchange, Ground Floor, Exchange Plaza, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai
Do remember to RSVP for the Open House and mark your calendars!
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| Plugged-in @TRHOH – jamming with Shawn & Samarth |
The Business of Bollywood – and we’re NOT talking about Movies! #inspiring
KeyChat Session with Alok & Rohit Sobti (Vice President – Licensing & Merchandising Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd.)
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| Boot-tapping with Indie Yogi #sharing
He will share his amazing story and sweep you off your feet as well!
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I HAVE TECH but need business
Matching- Making @TRHOH: Presentations by Rodinhooders #networking
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| Rajat Das – The incredible power of crowdfunding #inspiring
Rajat, one of the co-founders of TheHotStart is coming all the way from Delhi to talk to you on how crowdfunding can assist Rodinhooders in raising funds for your next innovative project.
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CAS – Create a Startup! #learning
Theme: Apps, not Games!
Alok will lead-in and then everyone from the audience will pitch ideas and we will build a LIVE PPT involving the FIVE W’s right there on stage!! This is a unique session – a learning exercise on the whole “think-through” process of starting up, conceived by Alok and is EXHILARATING!
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Here is the Lesson Plan:
Lesson 1 – What kind of Business do you want to start?
There is a great deal of content just in this one post!
Quickly begin your Graduation in Entrepreneurship!
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Mentoring and Support for Early Stage / Ideation Phase Start Up
Is your startup in the ‘ideation’ phase or is it an early start up?
Say hello to Ravdeep Singh and his partners, they want to help you with:
small seed capital and guidance!
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When to incorporate your Start-up?
Which stage is your start-up in?
Know the difference between a product, a start-up, and a company and thus find out what NOT to focus on!
Find the fastest way to revenue!
How does one solve all known problems?
Find out answers with Kiran Kumar
This post has been awarded “The RodinStar Post” of this week!
Congratulations Kiran!
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Ye Public Relation Hai, Sab Jaante hain!
Experience of the Rodinhooders of Delhi Meetup and few very interesting PR stories shared here.
What works in PR, if PR has any connection with Ayurveda, and people’s perception!
Let us explore PR more with Anamika Joshi
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Abhinav Sahai says there are no right or wrong answers, there are only perspectives.
And he is curious to know your perspective,
what you would do when you come across an honest business person who accepts loss to keep his word.
Would you ridicule this business person?
Would you respect and appreciate him?
Read this interesting story and express your thoughts here.
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Journey of a boy from a middle-class, traditional family in Kolkata,
who takes the entrepreneurial leap, disaster, meeting with mentor & lessons learned.
Let’s hear it from Saikat Sengupta.
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Don’t Let A TechCrunch Article Spoil Your App Party
If you’re a budding app entrepreneur, it’s easy to fall prey to articles & reports.
Don’t !
Rahul Varshneya suggests some important things you should focus on instead.
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He wants to create a crowd-funding platform for all the under-privileged children
who are suffering from cancer and other dreaded diseases.
Check out the story & plan here and do share your feedback and suggestions!
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4 Gutsy Trade Secrets to Increase App Downloads
Building your app is just 30% of the entire life-cycle of your start-up.
Remaining is: getting customers to use your app consistently.
Rahul Varshneya shares 4 strategies to boost your app downloads.
Do check the comments for a bonus (Super Secret) strategy shared by Kirti Prakash.
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| Whatsapp lets us send text, images and videos
but when it comes to live voice calls most calling apps,
including Skype and Viber work only on really fast internet connections
and consume very high bandwidth.
Jitesh Lalwani and his team has made this telephony app for 2G network.
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We have some interesting questions in our ‘ASK’ section
Mohankumar Swaminathan is asking :
When should a start-up be launched? and how?
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Caroline Fernandes wants to start Women’s Empowerment Cell (NGO)
to comprehensively empower women to be leaders and entrepreneurs.
How can she generate funding for it?
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Kindly do share your wisdom and experience here.
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Vishal Saha is looking for a Center Manager in Delhi
Rahul Sharma is looking for a Copy Writer for a client in Bangalore
Rajaram Pittala is looking for a Creative Head / Graphic Designer
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THERODINHOODS INTERVIEWS
Did you know that you can request to get interviewed by a fellow Rodinhooder!?
And you can be the one who interviews a fellow Rodinhooder!
Check out some cool interviews here!
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JUST FOR FUN STUFF
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| THERODINHOODS SHOWCASE |
Adam’s Genetics Launches First DNA based Diet and Fitness test.
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I thank each one of you from my heart, for being part of this community, for sharing this beautiful journey, sharing the ups & downs and most importantly for being YOU! 🙂
I am convinced that, without you this community would not be the same.
Gratitude and Joy,
@omkar facebook.com/omkar.nisal
PS: All external images have been hyper-linked to the source page
PPS: If you happen to be in the list of people below then please read this post! And if you happen to talk to any of these people, then kindly tell him/her/them that we are waiting for their guest newsletter!! Their photos are linked to their profile for you to MAKE it happen! 😉
Even if you may NOT know them, its an excellent opportunity to make new friends!
asha chaudhry
thank you omee! i was shaken and stirred when i went through this!! i can’t even imagine how much time & effort you put into this!!
unfortunately the message broadcast has a 50k character limit. and despite pasting from HTML mode to HTML mode there were formatting issues 🙁
will sort out with my tech knights once i’m in mumbai next!
see you on the 19th – keep rocking!!
Abhik Prasad
wow…that is indeed some serious effort Omkar …seems like a mini magazine – we have indeed come a long way from the simple text newsletters of the initial days.
Was also pleasantly surprised to see my and fellow rodinhooders pics at the end of the newsletter…interesting twist to the newsletter 🙂
Darshan Bhambiru
Nothing else but WOWsome!!! Omkar!
This goes way beyond the (Very Rough) Newsletter Guideline 🙂 Cheers!!!
Honoured to see my Name and Picture mentioned in the Exclusive List of Suggested friends ! Thank You to include me, appreciate it.
Rishi
awesome work! 🙂