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.

Finding a Tech-Co-Founder & building out your Early-stage Tech Team

Entrepreneurs are a rare breed, they are risk takers, enterprise builders, visionaries, their brain works 24×7, except when trying to find a tech co-founder! Sounds like your situation too. Then join us for this months WomenWill meet up as we discuss how to get a tech co-founder and build your early stage tech team as well.

As uniques as entrepreneurs are, people with technology  skills are unique too, they are not just motivated by your salary and perks but a challenging opportunity and a supportive mentor who can nurture their growth with right advice.

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We have two seasoned entrepreneurs joining us on the 24th of March, 2.30 pm at Andheri East (Obino Office)

Speakers:

  • Niranjan Nakhate – Cofounder at Frapp, India’s first student benefits app.
  • Sanket Shah – Cofounder at InVideo, Previously MAssBlurb
  • Ritu Soni Srivastava – Founder @ Obino
  • Deesha Vora – CPO at SuperWise.
  • Sreeraman Thiagarajan – Cofounder at Agrahyah Technologies & Chapter Manager, GBG Mumbai

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.

Getting your first set of customers and users – WomenWill Event – Feb 24

Your dream product is built and ready to ship, a thousand miles journey called entrepreneurship is ahead of you, but there’s only one challenge – how to get your first set of customers?

For a b2c product, getting your first 50 was easy, your friends, family and some samaritans from the WhatsApp group you forwarded to is willing to give 20mb of space in their phone and try your app.  But how do you reach a 1000 customers?
and for b2b startups, the journey becomes even more challenging, the long sales cycles of enterprise is no easy task, endless questions on features, pricing, value you deliver combined with paperwork, ‘vendor registration’ phew!

Here’s a meetup by WomenWill, dedicated for helping early stage startups to go to market and get their first set of users and customers.

Who should attend? early stage and build stage startups to know about launching your product in market.

Is this only for women? we are working to get more diversity in startup community, men are welcome too.

Date & Time: 24th February, Saturday. 2pm to 4pm

Speakers:

Sudarsan Ravi, 
Founder, RippleHire
RippleHire is a SAAS based gamifed employee referral product. RippleHire helps you engage your workforce, leverage their network and benefit from automatic sourcing. You make great hires and distribute more wealth within the organization. Win-Win.
 
Aseem Khare
Founder, Taskbob
Taskbob was one of the leading Series A funded technology startups offering reliable home services in India. Taskbob was 1 out of 6 startups in India, selected by Google for its Global Launchpad Accelerator Program’ 16 in Mountain View.

 

Hosts: Ritu Soni Srivastava (Obino), Deesha Vora (Superwise), Sreeraman Thiagarajan (Agrahyah Technologies)

Entry – Free and by registration only.

WomenWill Mumbai – Episode 1

At Gday 2017 we launched WomenWill Mumbai edition, and here’s our first meet up in 2018.

Join us on 6th Jan

WomenWill is an ongoing effort to strengthen Mumbai’s startup ecosystem by encouraging more women participation across technology driven businesses and startups. WomenWill aims to create a forum for discussing, connecting, learning and sharing about participation, leadership and growth for women in tech.

Join us (free) as we take our 1st step on January 6th, Saturday, (4pm) 3pm to 6pm at Andheri East.

Register below and will send you detailed agenda and confirmation email. The event is free of cost, men are welcome too, but priority will be given for women.