The meet has no set agenda:

• Just drop come in and hang out with a lot cool founders / geeks / hackers / weird startup guys.
• The ( non-alcoholic) drinks and snacks are on the house.
• There will be many interesting conversations and corners to join

Important Details:

• Signup here: http://bit.ly/ChdStartupMeetUp
• Day : Sunday, 21st March 2010
• Time :  - 1800hrs
• Address:  L-pad, S.C.O. 19, (2nd flr) Kalgidhar Enclave, Zirakpur-Kalka Highway, Near Paras Down Town Sqaure / Big Bazar, Above Chaitanya Hospital, Zirakpur
• Lost on the way? Call: 93172-88213

Please spread the word

Gmail has solved spam issues to a large extent for it’s users, other email providers are still struggling with spam.

More than spam, it’s missing of legit emails which is bothersome.

We at Morpheus have some ideas and are looking for a few smart techies to solve a few problems around reducing the email overload.

Do you think you can solve a few? Then apply to The Morpheus program. You must be a guru in all of the following POP, IMAP, Hypertable/BigTable, Javascript, Java, PHP, and you walk on HTTP, web security standards, Firefox/Chrome Plugins, REST-ful APIs in your dream. Send some cool code of problems you have solved in the past and your vision around solving some of the issues related to user experience, information overload, organization, closing the loop, etc. and we may work with you in the next 4 months (and also put some money) to bring the product to life for the global technology market.

Are you game? Come discuss with us.

Update : It is the company we help you build. You are the founder/CEO whatever.  Thought we should clarify that we are not looking for someone to just “code”.

To help us manage the time please drop a comment below with your preferred time slot in chunks of 30 mins.

B-plans not required

Just come over if you would like to chat with us. To help us manage the time please drop a comment below with your preferred time slot.

B-plans not required

See you in Pune (20th Mar) & Mumbai (21st Mar). Details coming soon.

Please drop your name and preferred time slot in the comments, that would help manage everyone’s time. Also check the comments for time slots already taken.

See ya! business plans not required

Update: Morpheus team is hanging around late — just show up!

Just come over for a coffee if you would like to chat with us. 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

Why the rechristening you ask? Besides in-keeping with trend of renaming, versioning – we think – Morpheus reflects the new role we have taken on. So, welcome Version 2.0 – The Morpheus!

The Morpheus:

In its new avatar, Morpheus will invest 5 Lakh INR (10,000 USD) in portfolio companies starting Batch 4 of its Business Acceleration Program (BAP). We have raised a small fund to help start-ups monetarily giving them the impetus over and above our real mentoring value.

Our LPs are a group of young, bright professionals who have placed trust in Morpheus, understand the start-up landscape & above all, believe in YOU – the Indian Start-up Founder! Special thanks to all our LPs for laying trust in us and believing in Morpheus.

Open for applications:

We are accepting applications for Batch 4 of the Business Acceleration Program (BAP) that starts last week of March. Last date for receiving applications is March 10, 2010.

Find more information about the BAP here: Apply , FAQ

Morpheus – continues to stand by you:

In the last two years, we have had an absolutely great time working with the 40+ founders of our 20 portfolio companies. They are working hard innovating and continuously creating value. Thanks to them, that our belief in the Indian start-up opportunity is growing stronger by the day!

Morpheus continues to believe that India has some of the most gifted, smart, hardworking young entrepreneurs amongst us. And India itself is a land of overflowing opportunity with a large domestic market; infrastructure & support system that takes to build global products. So we continue to lay our trust in the Young Indian Entrepreneur.

No, Not VC’s but entrepreneurs like other fellow-folks!

Though we are investing a small amount of money to facilitate start-ups; Morpheus’ core competency will continue to be the value we bring through our Business Acceleration Program (BAP), as a business accelerator and advisory firm. The 4 month intensive engagement to help the start-up team accelerate their business; the community value that is gained by extensive interactions amongst Morpheus Portfolio Founders (The Gang) are our primary value.

As an entrepreneur / start-up, if you are looking ONLY for funding – we are not the right people to talk to. If you are ready to accelerate, go from 40 miles per hr to 100 miles per hr– We’d like to talk to you. Drop us a line: neoATmorpheusventureDOTcom

Find out more about us: Team, What we do

Morpheus’ main mission is to work with young ambitious teams & together create enterprise value, jobs, social impact, and thus script the new Indian economy. And create wealth for all associated along the way!

Sharda Balaji of Novojuris adds:

MVP has been on the forefront of helping startups succeed. Their hands-on approach, working alongside the entrepreneurs as a co-founder, no-nonsense attitude and their approachability is awesome!  For young entrepreneurs who feel lonely figuring things out, they must enroll with MVP for the sheer acceleration of their business.

Jaya Jha, Co-founder of Pothi further added when we told her about our latest effort:

The initial days of a young entrepreneur are best spent in being able to take the idea off the ground, rather than handling VC meetings, negotiating contracts and detailing exit plans. Most businesses don’t need a lot of money at that stage. But all of them need some! And it needs to come with the right mentorship.

Finally, closing with a quote that’s relevant to us all:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Wikipedia definition of *Phoenix

We have started a twitter account called “Friends of Morpheus (@fom_morpheus). This is a community of folks who are either working with us formally or have a good informal friendship with Morpheus or are just interested in startups. The idea is to share / discuss / publish – news, articles, wisdom and thoughts about startups,  more engagement activities will be added overtime.  Sometimes we will also share updates from Morpheus and from portfolio companies

If you have something to share please tweet it with @fom_morpheus and we can further share it with all the fom_morpheus followers.

Click here to follow Friends of Morpheus –  http://twitter.com/fom_morpheus

Don’t forget to spread the word and feel free to send us suggestions on what more can be done or should be changed.

We have specially invited:
* Mekin Maheshwari. Yahoo, uGenie, Lulu. Currently at Flipkart
* Sameer Sisodia. Yahoo, Ziva. Now taking a break from everything!
* … and few others to be confirmed

Where:
Jaaga, Rhenius Street, Off Richmond Road, Opposite the Hockey
Association Stadium main gate, Shanthinagar. See the map at
http://jaaga.wikidot.com/contact

When:
23rd Jan, 10:00a – 12:01 pm

Format:
* Event will be attended by 20+ start-up founders / entrepreneurs
* The event brings together entrepreneurs to share experiences and
interact with other start-ups in an informal manner
* Guests, like you, will typically be experienced entrepreneur /
investor / a person from the start-up ecosystem
* Please RSVP for the event.
* There is no fee for attending the event
* Chai/Biskit will be provided at the event

What will you gain from the event?
* Opportunity to interact with others in the startup ecosystem
* Share and learn from each others experiences in running businesses
* Potential to meet a business partner, investor, employee, etc.
* Opportunity to build a strong startup community

“Start-up Morning/Evening” is organized under the Xtreme Startups
banner. It is a non-profit initiative to support & promote
entrepreneurship.The events are organized with the support and help
from a lot of friends in the startup community. Previous editions of
the event have been held Mumbai, Bangalore, Chandigarh and Pune. This
edition of Xtreme Startups is supported by Jaaga, Upstart.in, Morpheus
Venture Partners and Startupnews.in

If you have not recieved an email inviting you for the same, please comment/drop us an email and we shall add you to the list.