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.
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