Continuing its attempts to fortify the Indian entrepreneurial back up system and to finance hopeful start-ups, Indian Angel Network, the country's biggest network of angel investors made announcement about a series of start-up boot camps.

To be held across Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and the national capital, these boot camps try to bond major angel capitalists and mentors and emerging and reputable capitalists. These interactions serve as good learning ground for entrepreneurs by taking part in engaging board discussions on a variety of aspects as also pitch for seed-funding.

Additionally, to inspire a start-up culture and to slot in a larger community, these boot camps will bring simulate activities including online voting to pick out thoughts and establish an 'Ideas Marketplace'.

This simulation will permit partakers to legalize the novel venture proposals in an instructive and fun way.

The entries to bootcamp are open from 6:00 PM on March 2, 2011 at www. boot-camp. in.

Named 'The Baap of all Bootcamps', the event is powered by Springboard Ventures, an emerging start-up enabler that established crowd-funding (india.growvc.com) in addition to biz plan advisory and growth platform
(www. mybplan. in).

While declaring the IAN Bootcamp, Mr. Apoorv Sharma, Assistant Vice President, Indian Angel Network stated that these boot camps will offer IAN members a chance to engage with a larger number of start-up entrepreneurs in order to share their experiences.

This will permit the partakers to draw up their own list of factors that contribute to success or failure of their ventures.

Each of the bootcamp will be packed with knowledge-led sessions, including:

- IAN Showcase: Featuring some of the successful investee entrepreneurs of IAN on how to pitch to investors and what support to expect from IAN.

- Ideas Marketplace: Top ten shortlisted ideas in each city get an opportunity to make an elevator pitch to other participants in three minutes. Participants with top four ideas will get to meet angel

investors, get incubated by IAN Incubator. They also get assistance making their business plan by MyBPlan.

- The Earthy Entrepreneurs : Special showcase and panel discussion on challenges and funding opportunities for social enterprises

- The Early stage Investment saga: Leading entrepreneurs and IAN members come together to discuss the challenges of early stage investments

- Start-up Pitch: Shortlisted eight start-up ideas in each city make detailed presentations to the investor members of IAN. Top two start-ups selected from each city compete with others at the

grand finale at Delhi.