The open house is now coming to Pune (in the sidelines of iweekend) on Saturday 3 December, 2011.

Applications for TM, Batch 7 are open till 3 Dec, 2011 (More information here). But, for the ones who meet us at Open House Pune, we’ll extend the deadline to mid-night 4th December, 2011.

We are doing a series of Open Houses to interact with:

• Entrepreneurs who are thinking about applying for TM – Batch 7 but want to have a face to face chat before they do so
• Start-up founders who want to just use us as a sounding board  & discuss their ideas / ventures / issues faced etc
• Entrepreneurs who just want to come by & have interesting conversations

What is a TM open house?

TM Open House is an opportunity for you to get a glimpse inside TM, you can discuss your startup, ask questions, interact with us or just hang-out with other founders. You can meet our portfolio company founders  & ask them first-hand experiences of being a part of @morpheusgang.

Who is it for & how do i register?

If you are start-up entrepreneur who has applied or is thinking to apply for the Startup Acceleration Program at TM you MUST come by. If you are an entrepreneur and dont have ideas of applying, come by, I am sure you’ll benefit. If you are curious as to how all of this works or you are skeptical, come by too, you may just get a different perspective.

If you are interested, look below for a link to Register for the event. Pick a Slot and add in your details. Please do not over-write on someone else’s slot.

When & where are the Open Houses?

After a series of good Open Houses in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, we decided we’ll do one in Pune too!

Pune:

• Date: Dec 3, 2011 (Saturday)
• Time: 1500 hrs to 1900 hrs
• Venue: Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies (Under-Graduate), Survey # 231, Near Lunkad Gold Coast,Viman Nagar, Pune – 411014. MAP: http://bit.ly/svHqVt
• Register: Please signup here.
• Who’ll be there: Sameer Guglani & some Founders of TM portfolio companies.

We recently partnered with Sankalp Forum (http://www.sankalpforum.com/). The Sankalp Forum (one of Intellecap’s flagship initiatives) is a unique and collaborative platform designed to catalyze impact investments into sustainable and scalable social enterprises globally. Founded with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Ashoka India, New Ventures and over 30 other sector stakeholders, Sankalp today is one of the largest gatherings of social entrepreneurs, impact investors, policy makers and other stakeholders. A clear example of our success lies in the fact that over 25 of our enterprises in the past 3 years have already received equity investments, greater than 160 of them have received mentoring services and over 50 have received capacity building support.

About the Sankalp Awards:

The Sankalp Awards organised by Intellecap has been established with the dual objective of identifying and lending support to scale-up innovative social enterprises by providing its enterprises consistent opportunities to access capital (both debt & equity), mentoring services, capacity building and global recognition. Sankalp Awards focuses on 5 high impact sectors – Agriculture, Food and Rural Business, Education, Clean Energy, Health, Water & Sanitation and Technology for Development.

Sankalp Awards is open for nominations right now till midnight November 30, 2011. Find more information here.

Applications for TM, Batch 7 are open till 2 Dec, 2011 (More information here).  As usual we are doing a series of Open Houses to interact with:

• Entrepreneurs who are thinking about applying for TM – Batch 7 but want to have a face to face chat before they do so
• Start-up founders who want to just use us as a sounding board  & discuss their ideas / ventures / issues faced etc
• Entrepreneurs who just want to come by & have interesting conversations

What is a TM open house?

TM Open House is an opportunity for you to get a glimpse inside TM, you can discuss your startup, ask questions, interact with us or just hang-out with other founders. You can meet our portfolio company founders  & ask them first-hand experiences of being a part of @morpheusgang.

Who is it for & how do i register?

If you are start-up entrepreneur who has applied or is thinking to apply for the Startup Acceleration Program at TM you MUST come by. If you are an entrepreneur and dont have ideas of applying, come by, I am sure you’ll benefit. If you are curious as to how all of this works or you are skeptical, come by too, you may just get a different perspective.

If you are interested, look below for a link to Register for the event. Pick a Slot and add in your details. Please do not over-write on someone else’s slot.

When & where are the Open Houses?

After a great Bangalore and Mumbai Open Houses, We’re now coming to Delhi!

Delhi:

• Date: Nov 26, 2011 (Saturday)
• Time: 0900 am to 3pm
• Venue: Akosha, 1/8, Nehru Enclave,  New Delhi – 110019, Landline 011 64643453, MAP
• Register: Please signup here.
• Who’ll be there: Nandini Hirianniah, Sameer Guglani, Sarvjeet Ahuja (tech partner at TM) & various Founders of TM portfolio companies from Delhi NCR.

Applications for TM, Batch 7 are open till 2 Dec, 2011 (More information here).  As usual we are kicking off a series of Open Houses to interact with:

• Entrepreneurs who are thinking about applying for TM – Batch 7 but want to have a face to face chat before they do so
• Start-up founders who want to just use us as a sounding board  & discuss their ideas / ventures / issues faced etc
• Entrepreneurs who just want to come by & have interesting conversations

What is a TM open house?

TM Open House is an opportunity for you to get a glimpse inside TM, you can discuss your startup, ask questions, interact with us or just hang-out with other founders. You can meet our portfolio company founders  & ask them first-hand experiences of being a part of @morpheusgang.

Who is it for & how do i register?

If you are start-up entrepreneur who has applied or is thinking to apply for the Startup Acceleration Program at TM you MUST come by. If you are an entrepreneur and dont have ideas of applying, come by, I am sure you’ll benefit. If you are curious as to how all of this works or you are skeptical, come by too, you may just get a different perspective.

When & where are the Open Houses?

We will, as always do a series of Open Houses. We are starting with Bangalore & Mumbai (Delhi coming soon)

Bangalore:

• Date: Nov 19, 2011 (Saturday)
• Time: 11 am to 7pm
• Venue: CommonFloor.com (maxHeap Technologies Pvt Ltd), Global Incubation Services, 5th cross Road, (Behind Leela Palace), Kodihalli, Bangalore.  MAP
• Register: Please signup here.
• Who’ll be there: Nandini Hirianniah, co-founder TMs, Anant Gopal,  design & usability partner at The Morpheus & various Founders of TM portfolio companies from Bangalore.

Mumbai:

• Date: Nov 20, 2011 (Sunday)
• Time: 11 am to 7pm
• Venue: Sutra People, 601 B, Annapurna Above Mumbai Darbar Hotel, Near Adarsh Nagar Signal, Off New Link Road, Lokhandwala-Oshiwara Area,Andheri, Mumbai – 400102, MAP
• Register: Please signup here.
• Who’ll be there: Nandini Hirianniah, co-founder TM & various Founders of TM portfolio companies from Mumbai.

Important: There are  only 15 , 30 minute, slots per city signup before everything is taken

What is a Morpheus open house?

The Morpheus Open House is an opportunity for you to get a glimpse inside The Morpheus, you can discuss your startup, ask questions, interact with us or just hang-out with other founders. We are doing a series of open houses across 5 major cities, details are mentioned below. You can book a 30 mins slot to interact with us.

Drop by even if you dont have plans to apply to our Startup Acceleration Program, we love meeting interesting people. Both of us (Sameer  & Nandini) like coffee, movies, random conversations & more…

Where & When will the Open Houses be this time?

Mumbai:

• Date: May 7, 2011 (Saturday)
• Time: 11 am to 7pm
• Venue: SutraHR offices, Lokhandwala-Oshiwara Area, Andheri, Mumbai.
• Register: Please signup here.
• Who’ll be there: Sameer Guglani, cofounder The Morpheus & various Founders of The Morpheus portfolio companies from Mumbai.

Pune:

• Date: May 8, 2011 (Sunday)
• Time: 12 noon to 5:30pm
• Venue: Grubshup,  Law College Road, Pune.
• Register: Please signup here.
• Who’ll be there: Sameer Guglani, cofounder The Morpheus & various Founders of The Morpheus portfolio companies from Pune.

Bangalore:

• Date: May 14, 2011 (Saturday)
• Time: 11 am to 7pm
• Venue: CommonFloor, New Thipasandra Main Road, HAL 3rd Stage, Bangalore
• Register: Please signup here.
• Who’ll be there: Nandini Hirianniah, cofounder The Morpheus & various Founders of The Morpheus portfolio companies from Bangalore.

UPDATE: For those who did not get a slot to book at Open House and those who’d like to meet with The Morpheus, we’ve extended our stay in Bangalore by another day. If you want to meet up on Sunday, please drop me a note on nATthemorpheusDOTcom.

Chennai:

UPDATE: We’ve cancelled the Chennai Open House this time around as there were not too many registrations.  If you are from Chennai and would like to meet someone from The Morpheus, please write to us on neoATthemorpheusDOTcom. You can also book at slot at the Bangalore Open House above or write to us, as we are spending an extra day at Bangalore, now.

• Date: May 15, 2011 (Sunday)
• Time: 12 noon to 5:30 pm
• Venue: The Startup Center, Alsa Mall, Egmore, Chennai
• Register: Please signup here.
• Who’ll be there: Nandini Hirianniah, cofounder The Morpheus & various Founders of The Morpheus portfolio companies from Chennai.

Delhi, NCR:

• Date: May 21, 2011 (Saturday)
• Time: 9 am to 2 pm
• Venue: One97 Offices,  Sector 5, Noida
• Register: Please signup here.
• Who’ll be there: Nandini Hirianniah & Sameer Guglani, cofounders The Morpheus, and various Founders of The Morpheus portfolio companies from Delhi, NCR

Looking forward to many interesting interactions. See you!

PS:  In case all slots are taken in your city or these dates dont work for you, drop us a line : neoATthemorpheusDOTcom

Event could be very useful for you if you are thinking about starting up, you will get to:

- live the mini version of the startup life in the high energy atmosphere
- build a real product out of an idea & sell it to real customers
- meet potential team members (may be launch a real startup with them!)
- work with some awesome mentors (I m one of them )
- learn a hell lot of stuff
- and most importantly – have a good time

As india is seeing an increasing interest in entrepreneurship, it is very important that young people who are planning to get into this space get the right start with the right help, direction & orientation. Events like startup weekend can be very helpful in achieving that. The Morpheus is very happy to support this wonderful event.  Read more details : Startup weekend Delhi / Startup weekend Bangalore

IMPORTANT: To get a 20% discount on the entry ticket use the code “THEMORPHEUS”

We are happy to share that the first book on SaaS – The SaaS Edge written by Sahil Parikh / Founder / DeskAway is now out. Its is published by one of the most respected publishers – Tata McGraw-Hill. DeskAway is part Morpheus Batch 2 (2008) and one of first successful SaaS startups from India. This is the first such book to be written by a founder of a successful Indian Startup.

Special Discount

Readers get additional 5% discount via Jumadi.in.  Buy The SaaS Edge edge from Jumadi / use the discount code SAHIL while checking out and you will be entitled for 30% discount on the book. Enjoy!

About ‘The SaaS Edge‘

The book is a simple, non-technical read on the journey from Web 2.0 to SaaS. The primary idea behind this book is to highlight how everything is slowly moving to the Web – from your email, thoughts, ideas and friends, to all your business software. The beauty of this shift is that there are no entry barriers – every person or business (of any size) can participate and prosper. It is going to be necessary for every business to adopt Web 2.0 tools and SaaS applications if it wants to compete in a global world.

The SaaS Edge – www.facebook.com/thesaasedge

We are coming to Pune to catchup with  Founders / Hackers / Geeks / Makers / Frnds / Weirdos / Would be founders / Friends / Curious ppl.

Come hangout with @guglanisam this Sunday (31 October 2010).  From 11 am – 0500 pm we will be at our fav adda – Grubshup, Rachana Trade Estate, Intersection of Law College Road and Canal Road, (Near Film and Television Institute of India)  Pune

To help us manage the time please drop a comment below with your preferred 30 minute time slot & plz come on time. You can also drop by at last minute but be prepared for some chaos and waiting time.

Look forward to seeing you. B-plans not required.

Come hangout with @guglanisam and the founders of The Morpheus portfolio companies this Saturday (30 October 2010).  From 11 am – 0500 pm we will be at our fav adda- Mocha, Churchgate.  Here are the directions & more about the venue (via @foodiebay)

To help us manage the time please drop a comment below with your preferred 30 minute time slot & plz come on time. You can also drop by at last minute but be prepared for some chaos and waiting time.

Look forward to seeing you. B-plans not required.

Just come over for a coffee if you would like to chat with us in 30 minutes slots.  To help us manage the time please drop a comment below with your preffered time slot.

Look forward to seeing you. B-plans not required