Time Travel II: Techsparks 2013!

YourStory’s Techsparks event series is an inspiring chronicle of India’s startup journey, with product showcases, insightful panels and high-power keynotes. In the last column, we shared the journey down memory lane with the highlights of Techsparks 2012, let us move a year down now to a flashback of Techsparks 2013! The 2013 edition of the annual startup showcase and conference kicked off on October 5 with an even more diverse and power-packed programme than previous editions. 
“India is a country of storytellers – the largest and oldest stories in the world come from here! Today, every startup story is unique and powerful, and it matters,” said YourStory founder/CEO Shradha Sharma. “Can we create 1.3 billion entrepreneurial stories from India? And from other parts of the world?” she challenged. The YourStory.com site (formerly YourStory.in) now has sections called HerStory (women entrepreneurs) and SocialStory (social entrepreneurship). Of the 70 startups showcased so far at Techsparks events, 33 have been funded and two acquired. The twitter hashtag of the event trended within an hour, and one of the tweeters remarked that the day of the conference was also the second death anniversary of the legendary Steve Jobs. Shailendra Singh, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India, delivered the opening keynote on the theme “Enduring Success.” He drew on the company’s successful portfolio startups: iYogi, Mu Sigma, JustDial, Xoom, LinkedIn, Pine Labs, Druva and so on. “Young companies today are in ten years disrupting Fortune 1000 giants. Enduring success comes from agility, building defensive moats, culture and perseverance,” he said. “TechSparks is a good platform for us – we have now invested in a TechSparks 2011 winner,” he said; the startup is cloud platform Idea Device. ... 
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