Proto.in Live – July Edition ‘08

I attended Proto.in Live – July Edition ‘08 held in IIT – Delhi. It was a great success with quiet a few startups from all over India. They show-cased their companies to Venture Capitalists and other funding community people also present in the event. Almost 500 participants attended the event from all over India, more than expected.

Mr. Kiran Karnik delivered the keynote speech this time at Proto.in on the 18th of July in the Seminar hall of IIT Delhi. Mr. Kiran Karnik spent 20 years in ISRO and building NASSCOM which put a structure, quality and bent the policies for growth, for the services Industry, his legacy is one that is embedded into history.

Some of the venture captialists present there were Pinstorm, Morpheus Ventures, IDG Ventures etc. Large number of companies from all categories like mobile, web, food processing industry, finance etc. were all present there. Some of the prominent ones were Directi (a 300+ million dollar company owned by the youngest guy just in his early 30’s). He was an instant hit among the audience. Others were Tekriti (Owned by Ex-Microsoft guys), Eko (Started by Ex-Citibank Professionals), Kiruba, Blink, The Hiring Tool, Lipikar, Apnabill  and many more. Whole area was wifi enabled for the attendees to blog about the event and best blogger was given prize too. There were continuous hits on twitter, technorati etc.

Overall all the participants in the event were full of never ending innovative energy. It was a kind of an event where all startups and enthusiasts looking for joining these startups should always go as these fill the attendees with the same enrgy and give a major boost to entrepreneurial spirit.

Towards the end of the event an ideas jamming session was held by proto people which was a great success too. They gave all the attendees 30 seconds to pitch ideas they would like to develop or get developed for the entire world to benefit from. Almost 70+ ideas were generated in just 60 mins. of time out of which 4 best ideas (one being our’s) were choosen and given prizes to, as an encouragement.

It wa a great experience and I look forward to attending more such events in future. They are a great place to gel with the like minded people…

Vishal