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Open Coffee 2nd Meet: What the attendants say?

Vaibhav Pandey — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:11:28 +0000

The second meet for Open Coffee Club’s Bangalore chapter happened on 2nd September 2007, Sunday. The meet took place at BrewHaha, Koramangala.

This time the focus of the meet was Marketing and close to 40 people attended the event. Unlike the last meet, this time the meet was more focussed with regards to the agenda. Primary Speakers for the meet were Ranjith from Kapston, Prateek Dayal from Muziboo and Swaroop from Ion. Interestingly, this time the participants came from diversified industry verticals like Legal, HR, Marketing.

Below I am trying to consolidate all the posts in one post by presenting the links to you. Go around and get a hang of what the participants are talking about. The links below carry the blog posts about Open Coffee meet held on 2nd September at BrewHaha.

Also note: This list will keep evolving with the links.

Himanshu’s Blog ( This is one of the most precise and crystal clear coverage of the event): http://thoughtsprevail.blogspot.com/2007/09/open-coffee-club-september-22007.html

Hari’s Blog ( Was the first one to blog about the event. Clear, crisp and well articulated post): http://harisays.blogspot.com/2007/09/occ-meet-on-2-sep-07.html

Swaroop’s Blog ( Swaroop from Ion, was also a key speaker at the event. He shares his views on OCC at his blog): http://www.swaroopch.com/archives/2007/09/03/opencoffeeclub-2/

Cheers,

Vaibhav

Open Coffee Club Bangalore: Meetup on 2nd September

Vaibhav Pandey — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:00:13 +0000

It’s again time to notify you all of Open Coffee Club’s second meet which is scheduled to happen on 2nd September 2007 from 11AM – 1PM. The first meet was a grand success with 60 people participating.

Read:OCC gets a Thumbs Up in Bangalore

The venue and the timings for the second meet have also been kept the same as the first one. The meet however this time is planned to be more focussed on issues like Marketing 2.0 and Sales as proposed by Ramjee Ganti.

For those of you planning to attend the event can mark the attendance at UpComing (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/240840 ) .

For directions map of the venue, check the map on Brewhaha Site or on Google Maps.

Also, there is a Google Group for OCC Bangalore available at http://groups.google.com/group/opencoffeeclubatbangalore

In case you are new to the Open coffee club concept check out my previous posts on the same at

Open Coffee Club Bangalore : First debut meetup planned

Open Coffee Club Meet @Bangalore: Updates

Cheers,

Vaibhav

OCC gets a Thumbs Up in Bangalore

Vaibhav Pandey — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:54:20 +0000

It should be called an Amazing start. Around 60 ppl gathered at BrewHaha,Koramangala in Bangalore. The event was scheduled to start at 11 AM and it did start by then.
With around 60 ppl turning up in the event, the event definitely got a big thumbs up.

One of the early reachers for the meet was Jace

Jace happens to be one of the organisers for BCB and there is always a great learning involved when such people are around.
I am trying to put up the list of some of the people present for the event.( Thanks to Himanshu for having consolidated this information for us )

When me ( Vaibhav) and Ramjee first met on 12th August at Woody’s restaurent in Jayanagar for dinner, we never thought that 60 ppl will turn up for the event. Our estimates ( even on the day of the event) were around 35. Its really amazing to see and experience the kind of energy people bring with them at such events.

Below piece of info is taken from Himanshu’s blog
Crowd present at the OCC:
[Attendees who haven't provided information about their blogs are tagged with their email id's. Also,if I have missed out your name,kindly add it in the comment section...]

K. Aditya
Saurabh Singh
Kaushik Gala
Deepak Shenoy, founder of MoneYoga
Pooran Prasad, co-founder of Zealous Solutions
Vaibhav Pandey
Harish Kumar, founder of OneBigWeb
Sandeep C Senan
Kiran Jonnalagadda aka Jace
Manasi Baranwal
Shivakumar Ganesan
Prashant Acharya
Gunasekaran S
Sameerkanth , ConsultantNEN Bangalore
Venkat Ramana
Anand
Piyush Gupta, Co-founder of RouteGuru
R. Senthil
Kiran Kadekoppa
Parvez Ahmed
Ajit
Rohit Bansal
Prateek & Nithya Dayal, Co-founders of Muziboo
Karthik Jain, Co-founder of PicSquare
Satish TJ
Anshul Gupta
Meera K , Community & News media
Rajan, Co-founder of Motvik
PV Sundaram
Vipul Gupta
Bhasker Kode,Co-founder of “The Returnable Project”
Laura Parkin, Executive Director, NEN & Wadhwani Foundation
Yiting Shen
Saurabh
Paveen Kumar
Parineeth Reddy
Harinath Pudipeddi
Siva – now an Entrepreneur
Akshat Choudary, Co-founder ActivMobs
Amit Singh, Co-organizer of BCB4
Ashish Solanki, Co-founder Yulop
Puneeth Prasad

Although, people have been giving me and Ramjee a thumbsup for the efforts, personally i feel that its the community which makes such events possible and succesfull. My special thanks go to all those who attended and all those who guided us for this event. When it comes to the guidance part, i must thank Siddhi and Vijay.

A lot of things got discussed and a lot of action seems to be getting seeded. Hope to have great times together.

Do read more about the event action from fellow bloggers Ramjee Ganti and Himanshu.

The next Open Coffee Club meet in Bangalore is scheduled on 2nd September. Hoping to catch you all again.

In case you are new to the Open coffee club concept check out my previous posts on the same at

Open Coffee Club Bangalore : First debut meetup planned

Open Coffee Club Meet @Bangalore: Updates

Cheers,

Vaibhav

Open Coffee Club @Bangalore is now Twittering.

Vaibhav Pandey — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:35:58 +0000

News is that Open Coffee Club @ Bangalore is now twittering and you can follow the twitter updates posted at https://twitter.com/opencoffeebang.Also read: Open Coffee Club Meet @Bangalore: Updates

Open Coffee Club Bangalore : First debut meetup planned
Cheers,

Vaibhav

Open Coffee Club Meet @Bangalore: Updates

Vaibhav Pandey — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:32:20 +0000

Finally the Venue and Timings for the Open Coffee Club meet at Bangalore are fixed. The group plans to meet up at Brewhaha this Sunday( 19th August 2007) at 11am-1 pm.

There is no fees for the event and anyone interested can walk in at the mentioned venue. Better still, if you are interested, do register with the group bangalore opencoffee google group

To summarize my post:

Event: Open Coffee Bangalore meet

When: Sunday, 19th August 2007

Timings: 11AM – 1 PM

Where: BrewHaHa

Also read:

Want to know more about Open Coffee Club at Bangalore?

How to organize your own coffee club?

Cheers,

Vaibhav

Open Coffee Club Bangalore : First debut meetup planned

Vaibhav Pandey — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:26:59 +0000

Open Coffee Club at Bangalore is planning to host its first debut meeting this month ( time, date and venue still to be decided).

The OpenCoffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organise real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow.

According to Ramjee Ganti, a fellow blogger and organizer for Open Coffee Club in Bangalore ,”The concept is simple, events are arranged at a predefined venue and a predefined time where entrepreneurs and interested people come over to chat, discuss their ideas, and most important of all build relationships. It’s not just the entrepreneurs who come but also the VC’s (the people with power!!). This gives the entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their ideas and see if the VC’s might be interested in them. The best part, all of this happens informally, no boardrooms, no presentations.”

Open Coffee Club at Chennai holds there meetings on Sunday’s and Siddhi happens to be one of the members of Chennai Coffee Club. You can read more about Siddhi here

Interested people can subscribe to the google group created for this. The groups can be found here http://groups.google.com/group/opencoffeeclubatbangalore

If you would like to know more about Open Coffee Club, checkout http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/

I shall write more about the events that have been taking place in Chennai soon.

Please pass on the word to interested people.

Cheers,

Vaibhav

EventsInIndia.com

Vaibhav Pandey — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:43:54 +0000

I had always wanted to checkout ways for spending my weekends in a better way. Till date it was only the newspapers and some friends who used to come for rescue when it came to deciding the day, but, from now on, I can always checkout the site called EventsInIndia.com. EventsInIndia.com features the various events taking place in a city in India. The users have an option of adding there own events.

I particularly liked the event information and also the UI. The UI is clean and covers major Indian cities.

Is there anything that i would love to have on this site to increase its usability, well, YES… and here goes the list

1.) A planner kind of feature
2.) Integration with mobile.. like i should be able to view the events using my mobile.
3.) Alert system to alert me of the events i would be interested in…

Do you also have your own list of wannabies from EventsInIndia.com like mine?? If yes, do let me know and i will make sure that they listen.

Cheers,
Vaibhav

Twitter and Productivity.

Vaibhav Pandey — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:43:57 +0000

Lifehack.org has written a good article on Twitter and the ways for increasing productivity using it. Lifehack in this article, talks about the ways to boost your productivity by using the twitter, the tool we love to hate

In this article, the author talks about ways to use Twitters as

To Do List.
Business Management Tool.
Newsletter
People Management Tool.

You can read more about the article here>>