What is Open Coffee Club (OCC)?

Essentially Open Coffee Club is a place for people who love startups to hang out and meet (Refer: http://opencoffee.ning.com/). It was started by Saul Klein in London in February 2007 to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organize real-world informal meet-ups to chat, network and grow. The first OCC meet happened in London on March 1, 2007. Since then the concept has been spreading and growing across the globe.

Open Coffee Club Bangalore (OCC B’lore)

Open Coffee Club Bangalore was started by Vaibhay Pandey and Ramjee Ganti in August  2007 with the first meet being held at Brew HaHa on August 19, 2007 (Refer: http://bit.ly/a2a2IT). Amarinder Singh attended his fist OCC Meet on January 20, 2008 and since then has been nurturing OCC B’lore as his second life. Since August 2007, OCC Bangalore has had over 70 in-person meets and currently has 2500+ members on its mailing list. For close to these four years, the entire value synthesis has been purely out of voluntary contribution.

Who all are invited to Open Coffee Club Bangalore?

Well it starts with you and includes anyone & everyone who is open to entrepreneurship either as a professional aspiration or as a passion or is even curious to know more.  Thus, love for “entrepreneurship & start ups” does help but is “not a pre-requisite” for your presence at OCC. Needless to add; once you are there the ecosystem itself does its best to get you motivated / started on your entrepreneurial journey.

Who are the current members and beneficiaries of Open Coffee Club Bangalore?

OCC Bangalore is an inclusive community platform for everyone: aspiring / wannabe entrepreneurs; budding / early stage entrepreneurs; early stage companies; established / mature entrepreneurs; funds, bankers & investors; professionals & technologists; freelancers & consultants; designers, media folks, students and service providers to the ecosystem.

How all can engage in Open Coffee Club Bangalore in a meaningful manner?

OCC Bangalore is one of the oldest entrepreneurship un-conference styled communities in India and moreover it is very vibrant and effective.

OCC Bangalore is a place to meet & share with your peers; mutually solve problems & share joy; learn from those you look up-to (and with others in the ecosystem); especially with whom you are not able to reach & connect for whatever reasons such as lack of access, time, awareness, etc. OCC is the right community to meet, find and discover your potential co-founder, mentor, investor, employee, service provider, customers / early adopters and sensible critics for surely.

OCC Bangalore is also the right forum where successful entrepreneurs and such others want to give back to the start-up support and development ecosystem and nurture the aspiring entrepreneurs of immediate tomorrow.

How can I join and follow OCC Bangalore?

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