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

At The Morpheus (TM) our job is to identify such revolutionaries & prepare them for the attacks. We have been having fun doing this for last 4 years & have learnt a whole lot of effective techniques. Along the way @morpheusgang has grown to 90+ revolutionaries.

So if you are a revolutionary or want to be one, we would love to hear from you. In the words of Steve Jobs “If you can be a pirate, why join the Navy?”

Applications for TM Batch 7 are open. Apply Now!

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

The Morpheus Founders from Nandini Hirianniah on Vimeo.

TM DemoDay CommunityLove from Nandini Hirianniah on Vimeo.

It’s that time of the year, when The Morpheus rings its announcement bells and opens applications to its Startup Acceleration Program: Batch 6.  Calling all teams or individuals who:

• have an idea
• have just started out on the entrepreneurial path
• are contemplating doing a startup
• have started executing their idea
• have been doing it for sometime

Calling all of you and others who qualify, but i’ve not made a mention of, to apply for the program!

What’s in it for you?

• Access to committed time, value & connections of a few experienced entrepreneurs who are ready to invest a part of their passionate entrepreneurial lives in your venture. Working alongside in helping you in anything that you need assistance in – product offering, building connections, marketing strategies, financials, UX-UI, psychological support, or just a sounding board or a pat on the back – anything!
• Access to an exclusive “gang of entrepreneurs” – 65 odd founders of The Morpheus portfolio companies currently, who will think for you, share their knowledge, connections, tricks of their trade and will never let you feel lonely. But remember its a world of barter – to belong you give back what you take in one form or another!
• Funding 5 Lakh rupees funding from The Morpheus, that will perhaps help you figure your product version 1, give u a run-way of a few extra months, enable more bandwidth, etc.

Know more about the program & The Morpheus here & here & here

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

The Morpheus: Entrepreneur, so which pill will you opt for? Remember that the Red Pill aint for the faint hearted!

Dialogues from the movie The Matrix, Picture courtesy Cognitivedesigner

The first Open Gurukul, had 4 entrepreneurs who have been-there-done-it interact with a select group of Entrepreneurs who are Friends of Morpheus & Morpheus Portfolio.

Here are the videos from the event.
PS: These are long videos with valuable insights – consider using Radbox to mark these videos and watch them later!

TM_OpenGurukul: VijayShekharSharma from Nandini Hirianniah on Vimeo.

TMGurukul Vinay Via.com from Nandini Hirianniah on Vimeo.

TMOpenGurukul Gautam, EGO from Nandini Hirianniah on Vimeo.

Harpreet, Cocubes videos is coming soon – baking in the edit table!