This is very delayed report about the first edition of OCC Kolkata Theme meet : My Journey.
In the first edition Angsuman Chakraborty, CEO and Founder of Verbands and Taragana.com, was the guest of the meet. Angsuman was joined by his friends and colleagues. Besides Angsuman, Shantanu Sikdar, CEO of Esine Knowledge Systems private limited and founder of Prepgenie.com was very much present and active participant in organizing the event.
Bijay Rungta, fellow member of OCC Kolkata joined in after completing his scheduled appointments.
During this meet Angsuman emphasized the need for members of OCC Kolkata Chapter to collaborate and address requirements of other members and thus build respective businesses.
As an example Angsuman mentioned about meeting Shantanu in one of the OCC meets and over the years, they have collaborated and solved each others pain-points.
One interesting point addressed by Angsuman was about, systematizing OCC Kolkata as an interactive platform, by appointing dedicated person, for handling the events of OCC Kolkata in return for a remuneration to be paid by members of OCC Kolkata.
Besides providing inputs on improviding OCC Kolkata platform, Angsuman provided first hand demo of Verbands (Social CRM SAAS product developed in India, catering to global requirements).
Release of this product is scheduled during February 2011.
Angsuman has kindly accepted to provide a user license for addressing requirements of OCC Kolkata Chapter.
Besides full-fledged demo of Verbands, discussion proceeded towards possible venues to collaborate.
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Event promotion partner: Eventnu
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Theme Meet : My Journey first edition
Event : Theme meet - My Journey
Date: 29th January 2011.
Time: 5:30 to 8:30 PM
Agenda:
1. Welcome
2. My Journey - Angsuman Chakraborty talks of his entrepreneurial journey.
3. Members introduction and networking
4. Snacks
OCC Kolkata member Angsuman Chakraborty addresses following:
• The challenges of a self-funded startup in Kolkata and how we overcame them, lessons we learned
• From Software outsourcing to Verbands, a path to product development funded by outsourcing
• The need for collaboration between startups, the need for organizations like OCC
• Lessons learned while developing a fully indigenous software product in Kolkata targeted for mass market
Venue for this meet is provided by OCC Kolkata member Shantanu Sikdar.
Esine Knowledge System Pvt Ltd.
Salt Lake City, CF 30, Sector 1,
near Swimming pool.
About Angsuman
I am currently Founder and CEO of Taragana Inc.
Previously I worked as Chief Software Architect at DoubleTwist Inc., Oakland, CA.
I am a Sun certified Java Architect and B.Tech (Hons.) from IIT Kharagpur. I have over 15 years of experience in architecting, designing and developing products for Fortune 500 to startup companies.
Before founding Taragana, I have worked mostly in USA (6.5 years in Silicon Valley and NYC) & for 1.5 years in Bangalore & now in Kolkata.
My strength as architect and developer is in developing fault-tolerant, highly scalable, high quality enterprise systems. Since end-1996 I have been developing and deploying on Java platform, with occasional forays in PHP.
More info: http://tech.gaeatimes.com/index.php/about-me/
Twitter: @angsuman & @verbands
LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/angsuman (Use angsuman@taragana.com to add me to your network)
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/angsuman.chakraborty
Yahoo IM: angsuman
GTalk: angsuman.chakraborty@gmail.com
About Shantanu Sikdar:
Shantanu is CEO of Esine Knowledge System Private Limited (Developers of prepgenie.com).
Online event management support is provided by OCC Kolkata member Vishwa Vivek Garg through his pune based venture EventNu.com.
Further information about EventNu.com is located at http://www.scribd.com/doc/46699460/Online-event-management-solution-eventNu
Vishwa and EventNu team have prepared a sub-domain for OCC Kolkata meet's RSVP. http://occkolkata.eventnu.com/ .
Join OCC Kolkata Chapter (http://groups.google.com/group/occ-kolkata).
Date: 29th January 2011.
Time: 5:30 to 8:30 PM
Agenda:
1. Welcome
2. My Journey - Angsuman Chakraborty talks of his entrepreneurial journey.
3. Members introduction and networking
4. Snacks
OCC Kolkata member Angsuman Chakraborty addresses following:
• The challenges of a self-funded startup in Kolkata and how we overcame them, lessons we learned
• From Software outsourcing to Verbands, a path to product development funded by outsourcing
• The need for collaboration between startups, the need for organizations like OCC
• Lessons learned while developing a fully indigenous software product in Kolkata targeted for mass market
Venue for this meet is provided by OCC Kolkata member Shantanu Sikdar.
Esine Knowledge System Pvt Ltd.
Salt Lake City, CF 30, Sector 1,
near Swimming pool.
About Angsuman
I am currently Founder and CEO of Taragana Inc.
Previously I worked as Chief Software Architect at DoubleTwist Inc., Oakland, CA.
I am a Sun certified Java Architect and B.Tech (Hons.) from IIT Kharagpur. I have over 15 years of experience in architecting, designing and developing products for Fortune 500 to startup companies.
Before founding Taragana, I have worked mostly in USA (6.5 years in Silicon Valley and NYC) & for 1.5 years in Bangalore & now in Kolkata.
My strength as architect and developer is in developing fault-tolerant, highly scalable, high quality enterprise systems. Since end-1996 I have been developing and deploying on Java platform, with occasional forays in PHP.
More info: http://tech.gaeatimes.com/index.php/about-me/
Twitter: @angsuman & @verbands
LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/angsuman (Use angsuman@taragana.com to add me to your network)
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/angsuman.chakraborty
Yahoo IM: angsuman
GTalk: angsuman.chakraborty@gmail.com
About Shantanu Sikdar:
Shantanu is CEO of Esine Knowledge System Private Limited (Developers of prepgenie.com).
Online event management support is provided by OCC Kolkata member Vishwa Vivek Garg through his pune based venture EventNu.com.
Further information about EventNu.com is located at http://www.scribd.com/doc/46699460/Online-event-management-solution-eventNu
Vishwa and EventNu team have prepared a sub-domain for OCC Kolkata meet's RSVP. http://occkolkata.eventnu.com/ .
Join OCC Kolkata Chapter (http://groups.google.com/group/occ-kolkata).
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