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Open Coffee Club Bangalore meets up every alternate Sunday to discuss about Entrepreneurship. The group focuses on working at the grass root level by giving a platform to Entrepreneurs, Wannabe Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists connect with each other. The theme of the meet today was Co-Founders, a topic often discussed and thought about individuals planning to venture out. Close to 25 people turned up at 11 AM today, to discuss about Co-founders and also share their experiences on this subject while working on their idea/ venture. The group aimed to discuss about the various parameters which one should look in a Co-Founder and how co-founders can actually make or break the success of the Startup.

The next OCC Bangalore meet will be held on 30th March 2008 from 11AM - 1PM at St. Mary’s Boys Orphanage, 2nd Cross, D’costa Layout, Cooke Town, Bangalore 560 084 (google map will follow) For this meet, we shall have Mr. Ramesh Jude Thomas with us. Mr.Ramesh is the CEO of EQUITOR Management Consulting P Ltd., the first and probably the only management consultancy in India focusing on brands as lead business assets. Amongst his key professional contributions is having led the first known Strategic Brand Valuation in India which was for Titan Industries Ltd. Followed by the valuation of the TATA brand. Mr. Ramesh’s lectures are attended by very high profile CEO’s, and he has lectured at the CII, IIM B and various other forums of repute. It is fortunate that he will be with us on 30th. Let us learn a bit about branding.

It was definitely a good meetup yesterday,16th March 2008 Sunday. A group of close to 50+ people turned up for the Open Coffee Club meet at CoreObjects. As known the agenda for this meet was centered around OpenCommune and NEN Startup Jobs. Venkat Ramana, C.E.O of Outsmart360 started with his talk on OpenCommune and the idea/inspiration behind it. He went on to discuss the existing gaps in the present office space ecosystem. Venkat has been working on the idea of OpenCommune since sometime now and it was great to hear him replying back to some interesting questions passed on by the fellow members. Below are some of the questions raised by the group:

If you are an entrepreneur or a freelancer who is fed up of working at home or at a coffee shop and need access to real business infrastructure, you should find this really interesting. OpenCommune is a movement to create cafe-like community/collaboration space within a shared office environment for entrepreneurs and freelancers – via the coworking model. They are a proud part of the Coworking movement around the world and actively support it. What is Coworking? Start with a shared office and add cafe culture. Which is the opposite of most modern cafes and ofcourse most offices.

Its time to announce the date and venue for the next OCC Bangalore meet. Below are the next meet details: Date: 16th March 2008 Venue: CoreObjects Brigade MLR, #50, Vani Vilas Road, Opp. National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, Karnataka 560004 (Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps) Agenda:

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The main concern many people have had with the meets is the absence of logging mechanism @ OCC. Addressing this concern, we have launched the bangalore occ blog which shall be used as a blogging board for :

• Important announcements with regards to the OCC meets.
• Logging mechanism for OCC meets.
• Will also give the new members a one stop shop for all there queries with regards to OCC and also the motivation behind it.

The blog url is http://bangaloreocc.blogspot.com Please do spare some time to go through it. Do let us know as well , your thoughts and suggestions with regards to the same. Also read:

During the last OCC meet held on 3rd Feb, we discussed about lots of things regarding betterment of OCC and one of the point discussed was regarding the timelines for publishing of dates and venue for next OCC meets. Going ahead, OCC venue and timings shall always be published minimum 7 days before the actual meet giving enough time for interested OCC members to plan. Below are the details with regards to the next meet. Venue: CoreObjects

During the last OCC meet held on 3rd Feb, we discussed about lots of things regarding betterment of OCC and one of the point discussed was regarding the timelines for publishing of dates and venue for next OCC meets. Going ahead, OCC venue and timings shall always be published minimum 7 days before the actual meet giving enough time for interested OCC members to plan. Below are the details with regards to the next meet. Venue: CoreObjects

The next Open Coffee Club meet shall be held on 20th Jan from 11AM - 1PM at Brewhaha, Koramangala The meet this time shall be a general meet wherein members can just drop in, chat and network. All those willing to attend the meet to kindly confirm their presence by voting on the upcoming link at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/403291 For any issues/ clarification with regards to the meet, feel free to call me (Vaibhav) at 9986186194 or Ramjee Ganti at 9342509088. *P.S: As Brewhaha doesn’t happen to be a sponsored venue for us, i would request you guys to atleast buy a coffee. It works ;)*