Monday, 13 May 2013
This is one of the exciting Meetups we have organized till date. As many of you know
Food & Internet is one of the vast markets available for Entrepreneurs to dive
in these days, we invited three Entrepreneurs who are into "Food &
Internet Businesses" from Hyderabad to share their views on Food &
Internet, its market, the services they are providing, their way of overcoming
the obstacles they had faced and their overall experience in the Journey.
The Speakers for this Meetup are as follows:
Sanjay - www.offo.in
The Speakers for this Meetup are as follows:
Sanjay - www.offo.in
NOTE: All are founders of their respective
companies.
Unfortunately Mr. Sanjay couldn’t make up for the event as he was also invited as a speaker for “Entrepreneurship in the Impact 2013”. www.offo.in is an online portal where you can select your favorite restaurant and choose your favorite items from the menu available. They will provide doorstep delivery.
Mr. Akhilesh, founder of www.letsdine.co, explained how they see the market as general public and cooperates. They want to have Meeting over food at discounted price, the idea is that when people meet over food, they tend to spend more time with each other and interactions with people will happen in a better way. They have conducted 25 events in the last month & they wanna expand to other major cities in India. Akhilesh says that they want to touch the 2000 event milestone by the end of this year.
Mr. Chendu also could not make for the event but we had Mr. Subash from www.wowdining.com, who is also one of the key persons initially when the company started. Wowdining provides discount cards (quoted Rs.1500/- as of now), which give discounts to many resturants in the City. This is a huge success in Delhi and now they are accelerating in Hyderabad. Mr. Subash says that the card doesn’t have any minimum or maximum purchase limit.
After the talks, we found from Mr. Surendra, the founder of www.alongtheway.in, that they provide food over travel, a much practical scenario. You can order food from Subway for your wife, Paradise biryani for you, Curd rice for your dad by just making a single call to www.alongtheway.in. He also read the orders he got the previous day which made the crowd a little more excited. He also shared their 30 sec promotional video of www.alongtheway.in which they are revealed in front of a public crowd for the very first time.
After these talks we asked Mr. Jai Eapen (fortunatly he has come for the event), CEO of www.gyaane.com to talk about his Entrepreneurial journey. He is welcomed but instead he took another topic to talk which he thought would help the crowd much better and he spoke about the SLP (Startup Leadership Program) for which they gonna open the applications very soon. SLP is a self/community driven group for Entrepreneurs at all stages with enough passion. He says most of the Entrepreneurs who have come there are benefited and he himself got a good mentor & investor for his venture. Two others, Mr. Kiran (Co-founder – www.carrotmobiles.com) & Mr. Surendra (www.alongtheway.in) have also passed out of the SLP who are present in the meetup. In Mr. Surendra’s words, “Entrepreneurship is a lonely journey and you will have similar people around you where you also get an emotional support for your journey to have people to say it is fine and to move on.”
After the talks are done, we played a small networking game. There are papers folded and every three papers have same number. The idea is that everyone has to network with at least two people in the group. So everyone is given those chits and all the people who got same numbers networked, which was fun.
Unfortunately Mr. Sanjay couldn’t make up for the event as he was also invited as a speaker for “Entrepreneurship in the Impact 2013”. www.offo.in is an online portal where you can select your favorite restaurant and choose your favorite items from the menu available. They will provide doorstep delivery.
Mr. Akhilesh, founder of www.letsdine.co, explained how they see the market as general public and cooperates. They want to have Meeting over food at discounted price, the idea is that when people meet over food, they tend to spend more time with each other and interactions with people will happen in a better way. They have conducted 25 events in the last month & they wanna expand to other major cities in India. Akhilesh says that they want to touch the 2000 event milestone by the end of this year.
Mr. Chendu also could not make for the event but we had Mr. Subash from www.wowdining.com, who is also one of the key persons initially when the company started. Wowdining provides discount cards (quoted Rs.1500/- as of now), which give discounts to many resturants in the City. This is a huge success in Delhi and now they are accelerating in Hyderabad. Mr. Subash says that the card doesn’t have any minimum or maximum purchase limit.
After the talks, we found from Mr. Surendra, the founder of www.alongtheway.in, that they provide food over travel, a much practical scenario. You can order food from Subway for your wife, Paradise biryani for you, Curd rice for your dad by just making a single call to www.alongtheway.in. He also read the orders he got the previous day which made the crowd a little more excited. He also shared their 30 sec promotional video of www.alongtheway.in which they are revealed in front of a public crowd for the very first time.
After these talks we asked Mr. Jai Eapen (fortunatly he has come for the event), CEO of www.gyaane.com to talk about his Entrepreneurial journey. He is welcomed but instead he took another topic to talk which he thought would help the crowd much better and he spoke about the SLP (Startup Leadership Program) for which they gonna open the applications very soon. SLP is a self/community driven group for Entrepreneurs at all stages with enough passion. He says most of the Entrepreneurs who have come there are benefited and he himself got a good mentor & investor for his venture. Two others, Mr. Kiran (Co-founder – www.carrotmobiles.com) & Mr. Surendra (www.alongtheway.in) have also passed out of the SLP who are present in the meetup. In Mr. Surendra’s words, “Entrepreneurship is a lonely journey and you will have similar people around you where you also get an emotional support for your journey to have people to say it is fine and to move on.”
After the talks are done, we played a small networking game. There are papers folded and every three papers have same number. The idea is that everyone has to network with at least two people in the group. So everyone is given those chits and all the people who got same numbers networked, which was fun.
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