The document is a guide to the Pune OpenCoffee Club (POCC), which is a community-driven network that has been operating since 2008 to support the startup ecosystem in Pune through community events and real-world meetups. It discusses that POCC hosts various events like startup showcases, learning sessions, and networking opportunities. While POCC engages over 40-100 people per event and has an online following of over 8,000, it is still seeking more community involvement to help coordinate annual events and support startups as they grow. The document encourages readers to contribute their time and donations to help strengthen POCC's efforts.

1. A Guide to the
Pune OpenCoffee Club
Santosh Dawara.
Picture taken by LeCercle.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lecercle/

2. Who are we?
• A 100% community-driven and community-
owned network.
• Since 2008!
• Locations
– http://punestartups.org,
– punestartups@googlegroups.com,
– LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=73451),
– Twitter (http://twitter.com/punestartups).

3. Represent, strengthen the Startup eco-
system in Pune through community
and real-world events.

4. Picture taken at “Financial
Basics for Startups”, POCC 2012.

5. Activities
• Startup & Industry Connects.
• Startup & Investor, Accelerator Connects.
• Events for,
– Startups show case their inventions.
– Share and learn technology-centric innovation.
– Learn the basics of creating a company.
– Networking online and offline.
– Hackathons.
– Movies, Football, Fun!

6. Where do we Stand (2012)?
• 40 to 100 attendees for every event.
• Adding 50 to 100 new free registrations across
online forums.
• 8,000+ unique visitors per month to
punestartups.org.
• We’ve never been stronger and we’re growing
well!

7. Where could we do better?
• We need to do a better job of engaging
startups as they grow.
– We’ve got new ideas on how we can do this and
need coordinators to take this forward.
• We don’t have 12 regular events in the year.
– A single event coordinator cannot take on a
complete annual event calendar.

8. My Point …
We’re still missing YOU!
– NONE OF US IS AS STRONG AS ALL OF US.
– We’ve made it effortless for you to setup a startup
meet and draw an audience.

11. Contribute
• Every year we raise money for the website.
• Donate Rs. 500 / Rs. 1,000 towards the
website to help us in our efforts.
• To RSVP for the fundraiser, click here.
• To wire the money electronically, email
santosh@tinkeron.com.