Prateek Dayal

Here is a mail I received from The Smart Techie magazine, that can help you get there. Remember that this is the same company that organizes the startup city event every year.

Dear Sir/Madam.,

How are you doing?

Greetings from The Smarttechie-SiliconIndia.

The May 2009 edition of The SmartTechie will be on the top 25 Emerging technology companies. We are looking at what exciting technologies companies are working for and prodigy of leadership team and investors of private companies. A few of these companies will be profiled in the magazine. We are talking to several startups to see who are the Best 25 we can feature in the magazine. A panel of analysts, Venture Capitalists and our editorial team will select the companies.

It will be good idea to feature your company as one of the 25 Emerging Companies.  There is a nominal sponsorship cost, which I have indicated below. This package is specially worked out for smaller enterprises. If you can review the same and let me know by end of today, we could plan the next steps.

COST: Rs 30,000 – Top 25 Nomination.

We would be offering you:

1. Inclusion in the Top 25 Emerging Technology Companies list.
2. One page of Company Profile
3. One full page ad in the SmartTechie at a later date.
4. The company Profile will be displayed on the online magazine page too: www.thesmarttechie.com/magazine

COST: Rs 15,000 – Only Advertisement.

We would be offering you:

1. One Page Advertisment in the issue of Top 25 Emerging Technology Companies.
2. Online banner ad on : www.thesmarttechie.com/magazine
3. 1 Page Coverage

Please do let me know how we can take this forward. It will be nice to close this loop asap so that we get things rolling.

We can look at a mutual relationship so that your company gets more visibility. Let me know what you think.

If you have anything else on your mind, I shall be open for ideas.

If you need the contact, contact me and I will pass it on to you :)

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This is more of a … look at the pictures .. they tell the story … post :)

We went to the much awaited (or rather publicized) startup city today. We reached around noon and found a lot of crowd there. The event looked like a trade fair and there were banners and balloons all over the place.

The event was in Nimhans convention centre and the good thing was that there was tons of parking space available. Once inside, we found the place to be really crowded, which I guess was good for the companies showcasing there.

Open Coffee Club also had a booth there and I found Vaibhav and Amarinder evangelizing OCC. I think these guys are doing an awesome job of spreading the OCC and keeping the meets interesting.

Several OCC companies were also demoing their products/services there. For example LifeBlob

We also met Sameer and Nandhini of Madhouse (now SeventyMM) and had a good discussion with them on Indian startup scene. These guys have great experience building and selling a company and it was fun talking to them.

We did not attend any talks or discussions and spent most of the time catching up with other people. Overall I got more of a trade fair feeling out of Startup City. There were stalls of Amazon, Nokia and HSBC right at the entrance :) The event certainly did not feel like a real startup event. I am not sure how to describe that feel .. I guess it wasn’t boostrapper’s event (except for the OCC booth).

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