The Pune Open Coffee Club (POCC) is the name of a group of entrepreneurs, startup companies and aspiring entrepreneurs based around Pune. The self-organised meetups happen at many places in Pune, with many people attending. Recently one chapter of POCC started in Kalyaninagar area. The first meet up of this chapter was on 20-03-2011. Three talks were scheduled and only two were able to talk due to time limits.
Madhuri Sing and Swapnil Kale welcomes the audience |
Speaker no. 1: Narendra Barhate – The CEO of SEED Infotech shared his success story of how his startup in Education sector, the challenges they faced and became a success. One of the interesting thing he shared was how SEED info tech faced and survived the 2004 financial slowdown.
Mr. Narendra Barhate |
Speker no. 2: Prof Dr Anil Lamba – The founder of Lamcon School of Management and a practicing Chartered Accountant. Dr. Lamba shared his knowledge on the financial management aspects in businesses. In his opinion many companies do not even have the basic understanding of financial management principles.
Dr. Anil Lamba |
The meetup concluded promising more of such gatherings will be done at least once in a month without interfering with other POCC meetups.