Well this was the first second OCC meet of the year 2009 and it was a great learning opportunity for everyone who was there. OCC meet-up was held in the office of CoreObjects, many thanks to them for being welcoming. The guest speaker of this meet-up was Mr. Neetibodh Agarwal, he has spent most of his professional life building software products. Currently he works at CoreObjects taking care of Delivery, Business Development and Strategy. It was a 2 hour talk on challenges people face while starting a business or developing a product. He touched on the subject of how Entrepreneurs should wisely choose co-founders and how they should be able to complement the qualities of each other when starting a business. He also spoke about how non-techies will find it very hard to start a software or technology startup and it is always better to have at least one techie co-founder who knows how the product works beneath. One of the good advices for non-techie was, if they want to outsource the development of their product, they should research and find people who have expertise in the specific product’s development. He also spoke at length about the differences in building Enterprise and Consumer Products. So all in all it was a good learning experience for people who want to build technological products.

I was also glad to meet Girish Rowjee and Sayeed Anjum of Greytip Software who co-founded the company back in 1994 and Girish shared some of the experiences and hardships faced while starting-up back in those days. It was really helpful to meet such mature Entrepreneurs who are willing to help youngsters like me and others who are part of OCC. I also got to meet Pranav Bhasin of Lifeblob who told me about OCC timeline which makes it easier for OCC community to share pictures and videos of OCC events. Last but not least, I want to thank Vaibhav and Amarinder for organizing OCC meet-up every fortnight and being helpful to all the members of OCC.

So if you are someone who is remotely or vividly interested in Startups and starting-up, I recommend you to be a part of the OCC community of Bangalore. You can find details about upcoming OCC meet-ups on OCC blog and also you can follow OCC on twitter.