[Inpycon] Startup Row

[Ankur Gupta]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> We had a thread earlier discussing about conducting Startup Row at PyCon
> India.
>
> I'm starting a new thread now to beat out the the details.
>
> Just to give a background, US PyCon has been conducting Startup Row
> from past 2 years. We can take lot of ideas from there.
> http://pycon.blogspot.in/2012/01/pycon-startup-row-2012.html
>
> We need to finalize the details of who can apply, what is the
> selection criteria etc.
>
> Here are my suggestions to start with.
>
> Who can apply:
>
> * Python must be the core-technology used in the startup.
> * Smaller than 5 people
> * Younger than 3 years?
>
>
Should allow for atleast 10 people


> Are these constraints good enough?
>
> Selection Criteria:
>
> * Interesting technology
> * Innovation
>
> Anything else?
>

Dates:
>
> August 17 - Start accepting applications
> September 07 - Final date for applying
> September 17 - Intimating the accepted startups
>
> If we can beat out the details, we can start by end of week.
>
> Fee:
>
> We may need to charge a small fee as we need to take care of the
> logistics. I suggest a fee of Rs. 2000/-. Or shall we keep it free?
>
>
The fees should help bring forth only those startups that are serious about
their business.  I hope so.


> When and Where:
>
> We can have the startup row in the main hall on the second day post lunch.
>
> Selection team:
>
> We need to form a small team of people to look at the proposals and select.
>

 Some form of public opinion on mailing list to shortlist the startups in
form of a poll sounds feasible to me ?.


>
> Does this sound good? Do you have any comments or suggestions?
>
>
Regards
Ankur


> Anand
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