Startup Jam Mumbai 2019

Organised by GBG Mumbai and facilitated by Launchpad mentors, Startup Jam is specially designed for seed stage startups who want to improve their current products or solution using Google technologies. The one-day event offers product sprint and tech case studies.

The event will have special focus on Android, Product Strategy, UX, and Growth. 

You must apply if you are:

  • Seed stage startups 
  • Startup less than 2 years old
  • Not more than Series A funded
  • Looking to improve your products with Android

In order to have high ratio of mentor to startup and provide support, we only accept / shortlist only 5 startups per batch. 3 or 4 members from each startup can join.

Event Date: 13th September 2019, 10am to 5pm.

Entry: Free. Confirmed startups will be notified by email on or before 9th September.

Apply Now!

Pitch @ Lightbox – Meet up on June 7th

In our last meet-up we discussed how to Pitch, now we are inviting you to meet, greet and pitch to a leading VC firm – Lightbox Ventures in Mumbai on June 7th at 3pm at Lower Parel.
All you got to do is to fill this form and help us be ready by knowing your venture.
Lightbox Ventures has perviously invested startups like Cleartrip, Droom, InMobi, Zoomin among others and is gladly hosting a meetup at their office to help members from GBG Mumbai and WomenWill Mumbai.
Register on or before 26th May: https://goo.gl/forms/rkVmz7K1lkhoX6B03
Thanks,
Team GBG

How to Pitch Perfect? Meetup on April 28th

At every turn of your startup life, you are pitching something to someone, when you are starting up, you are looking for co-founders, when you have a prototype, you look for investors. When you have a product, you pitch to clients or customers. The process of pitching never ends, but just because you are doing it daily doesnt mean you are doing it right.

Join us for the 4th meetup of 2018 as we get two experts to coach us on how to pitch for raising funds or for selling your products in the market.

Date: 28th April, Saturday.

Time: 2.00pm to 5pm.

Entry is free, but you have to sign up below or here. If you want to get a friend along, please ask them to fill the form too.

The Rise Accelerator Program

What is the Rise Accelerator?
The Rise Accelerator, created by Barclays, in partnership with Zone Startups, is an 18 week cohort program, that offers industry connections, customer validation, investor access, and a global reach. Startups will get an opportunity to do POC’s and co-create products & services with the guidance and support of experts from Barclays.
What is Barclays Innovation Agenda?
The idea for Barclays is to get early access to cutting edge technologies, by partnering with disruptive startups. The goal is to do a POC with startups and help the startup co- create products and services with Barclays. Barclays will also help scale your ideas to their global network of clients and partners.
Is there any fee or equity involved? 
Nope! The program is completely free and startups will not be parting with any equity. The IP of your product/service is solely yours.
Other benefits of the program?
Apart from the opportunity to have a ready customer in Barclays, the program offers a host of other benefits:
  • Access to Barclays technology, expertise and insights
  • Help from Barclays and its corporate partners to find your Product / Market Fit
  • Access to international markets through the Zone Startups and Barclays networks
  • Dedicated access to onsite mentors and advisors
  • Introductions to key industry experts
  • $100,000 plus worth of cloud credits
  • Residency in Rise Mumbai – a world class co-working space with state of the art facilities 
  • Opportunity to present to investors, industry experts and strategic partners at the Rise Accelerator Demo Day
We encourage you to go ahead and apply to the program at: https://goo.gl/forms/TqEy10uQP88Qom0C3. We are accepting applications until September 15th, 2016.
The Rise Accelerator

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The Business of Chatbots – July 30

From Apple to Amazon, Microsoft to Google, everyone is investing on chatbots, it is touted as the next app like revolution. Success of chatbot based business in China through WeChat has shown a clear precedence for rest of the world to tap this potential.

As millennials  are increasingly preferring to chat with a brand as opposed to speak on phone or write an email, the ecosystem looks favorable for startups to start investing their time and energy on building for bot-stores.

This month, we bring you an exclusive event that covers the Business of Chatbots, we’ll cover essentials that you need to know. We have two speakers, an entrepreneur and a tech expert, both having substantial experience in dealing with bots as an enabler for business.

Join us and lets discuss more.

Speaker details:

  • Apurva Nagvenkar: Machine Learning Scientist at Haptik
  • Maninderjit BindraSr. Technical Evangelist, Microsoft will talk about Why should you care about Bots? A look at conversations as a platform, cognitive services and Microsoft bot framework

Date & Time: 30th July, Saturday. 3pm to 5pm.

Venue: Zone Startups, 18th Floor, BSE Building, Dalal St. Mumbai.

Registrations: Free. Click here

Ycenter brings its Entrepreneurship and Incubation program to Mumbai

Ycenter, a global experiential learning organization, is launching India’s Next 40 – a 4 week Entrepreneurship Program – in August 2016.
You have the opportunity to build your startup from the ground up and prepare your pitch for potential investments and seed funding. The 4 week program ends with a pitch day, where investors will pick ideas to invest in.
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QUICK FACTS
  • 1 Month of Entrepreneurship Program by international faculty from the USA, with top investment bankers from India.
  • Real Time Guest Lectures and One-on-One Interaction with a United Nations Official and Rutgers Business School Professor.
  • Demo Day with investors from the Wadhwa Group, Fundtonic, Sequoia Capital, Microsoft, Blue Ocean Global Technology (TVF website creators) and more.
  • Chance to win 4 months of free Incubation space at BKC, with access to seed capital and Ycenter’s local and global network.
  • 100,000 USD for 3 years worth of Microsoft Bizsparks membership, to kickstart your technology needs.
  • Work in Ycenter’s  USA office, rent-free for 1month. Network with top technology startups and entrepreneurs in New York, Philadelphia and the east coast (We will provide the USA Visa invitation letter)

Click here to Apply to the program.

You can contact us at [email protected]  or call us at 9768251481.
PS: Check out a lecture by Dhairya Pujara – Founder CEO Ycenter (Also a Faculty for this program) – Wharton Business School 2014

NEXT BIG IDEA contest 2016

Do you want to take your startup to North America?

Zone Startups India is launching the 4th edition of Next Big Idea Contest in Mumbai on 1st July and 11 cities across India in the month of July. We will like to invite you for the same. Please RSVP here

NEXT BIG IDEA contest is a joint initiative of Ryerson University and Government of Ontario, Canada. We seek to discover India’s 5 most innovative technology companies who are looking to leverage a presence in North America. Five winners of this competition will be taken to Toronto for an all-expenses paid, 2 week bespoke accelerator program. The program will use Digital Media Zone (DMZ), #1 University Business Incubator in North America in Toronto as a hub where the winners will receive mentor ship, business development advice and valuable international experience.

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Some of our past winners include CitrusPay, AdSparx, Vidooly, Shield Square, Konotor, Light Metrics, Plackal, FlipTech and more.

Please find the registration form below or click here

 

Road Show Dates and Cities:
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Mumbai 1st July, 2016
Ahmadabad 4th July 2016
Pune 5th July 2016
Bangalore 7th July 2016
Hyderabad 8th July, 2016
Chennai 9th July 2016
Delhi/NCR 12th July 2016
Chandigarh 13th July
Jaipur 14th July
Goa 15th July
Kolkatta 16th July, 2016
Kochi 20th July

Success stories 2016 – #GBGStories16

Hi There,
Announcing GBG Stories Search 2016, an exclusive opportunity for GBG Mumbai members to share their startup story and win a trip to Google’s head office at California.
What is it?
Tell us your story in 200 to 500 simple words. Do cover the following:
  • What inspired you to start-up?
  • What is your startup doing? how is it helping customers
  • What are the Google technologies you are using in your startup (APIs, Android, Maps, AdWords, Analytics, etc.,)

Sample case studies from 2014

Out of 13 storied Mumbai submitted, Two made it to semifinals and one to final. These are currently hosted on Google’s global website.
  1. IA Project
  2. Parinita
  3. Safecity  (final 10)
What next?
Please create a Shared Document on Google Docs, Type your story and provide link here for us to review/edit and suggest changes.
Give ‘Edit’ permission to [email protected]
We will happy to assist you in helping your stories.
Deadline. 24th June 2016
Question? email us at [email protected]

Job post: Marketing Lead at eBZaar.com

eBZaar combines the comfort of buying quality groceries from your trusted nearby store with the conveniences of online shopping.

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eBZaar’s core team is less then 5 people, with representation from people from varied academic and corporate background [IIT, IIM, Infosys, Cadbury’s, JPMorgan] and we are looking to expand this to have one or two more people to help us in our forward march. The Advisory board constitutes people from HDFC, Cargill, Fullerton etc.

eBZaar.com is looking for an astute consumer marketing person.

You will be someone with 6 to 8 years of experience across FMCG / retail businesses across sales & marketing functions and/or should have worked in an advertising agency managing clients in the FMCG/Retail/eCommerce space. You would be well versed with defining marketing & communication strategy, preparing and executing a go to market plan.

You should have a strong desire to grow a start up. You are someone who is extremely versatile and adapt to the changing business environment and consumer requirements.

You will be part of the core leadership team working with a talented bunch of people bounded by eBZaar vision and will contribute significantly to transform it into a reality.

If this is you, ping ebzaar to have a chat. You may also consider sharing your profile at [email protected].

Location is Mumbai, compensation will be in cash and equity.

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Androidify My Business – Event on Apr 16th. 3pm

Androidify My Business

Should you really build an app? If yes then how to go about it?

There are nearly 2 million apps on Google Play, a similar number in Apple App Store too. By 2017, it is estimated that over 160 billion (yes, billion) apps will be downloaded worldwide. All the numbers looks great, the success stories of college drop-outs becoming millionaires with an app is motivating for more apps to be developed with hope of making it big. On a flip side, as many as 25% of app users open an app once and never return. In a mobile first country like India, building the right app is crucial to survival of a startup/business.

We have an event just for you to understand how to get started with the app business, what kind of business needs an app, how to get started, what are the best practises, how to get early traction, why Android for India, etc.

When and Where:

Join us on April 16th Saturday from 3pm to 6pm at Zone Startups India, BSE Building, 18th Floor, Dalal Street, Mumbai 400001

Entry free – register here

Topics and Speakers:

Who should attend the event?

  • Early stage startups wanting to build an app
  • Entrepreneurs wanting to redefine their business through apps
  • Or anyone simply interested to understand the business of apps

Signup below and await your confirmation email. Mail us for any questions at gbgmum@gmail

*Speaker changed from Prajyot to Puneet.