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HOW TO DISCOVER/PROMOTE A STARTUP EVENT IN YOUR CITY STARTUP EVENT <YOURCITY> By @LavinM

HOW TO DISCOVER/PROMOTE A STARTUP EVENT IN YOUR CITY

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HOW TO DISCOVER/PROMOTE A

STARTUP EVENT IN YOUR CITY

STARTUP EVENT <YOURCITY> By @LavinM

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Have you ever organized a session for entrepreneurs but felt that you could not reach out to the relevant

audience?

Crowdsourced Community Building

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Have you ever spent time visiting multiple event sites to find the entrepreneurial

meetings being organized in your city?

Image courtesy:http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisgirlangie/

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Have you joined startup fora to keep abreast of such

events but ended up with a spammed inbox?

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THE PAIN POINTS

STARTUP EVENT <YOURCITY>

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• Reaching out to the right audience.

• Spam free city based (startup)event discovery

Image courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tryingtimes/

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PROPOSED SOLUTION

STARTUP EVENT <YOURCITY>

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A Facebook Open Group Dedicated to listing events in your city: for and by entrepreneurs / enablers

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Exploits a simple facebook group feature …(promotion + discovery w/o manual invitations)

Crowdsourced Community Building

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HOW WILL THIS WORK ?

STARTUP EVENT <YOURCITY>

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Each member gets at least 5 members.

Collaborate to build the community

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6-10 individuals (voluntary) administer the page and post events.

Members share/request admins to post relevant startup events.

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Posts in groups = Facebook Events Only!= links, quotes, gyan etc.

=> Inbox not spammed.

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For the entrepreneurs /Enablers

By the entrepreneurs/enablers

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AIN’T THERE OTHER SUCH EVENT PLATFORMS

ALREADY?

STARTUP EVENT <YOURCITY>

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Yes, indeed.But then, which is the greatest common denominator that facilitates max outreach and probability to discover?

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SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO VOLUNTEER FORSTARTUP EVENTS

<YOURCITY>?

STARTUP EVENT <YOURCITY>

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Get in Touch:@LavinM

lavin.mirchandani (at) gmail.com