10:30 AM: I am again at scintillating campus of IIM, and as predicted I see only few bikes and cars around, which means not many people have turned up for the 2nd day of the event.

11:00 AM: I am struggling to get Wifi up. I am in Startup collective attending a session by a guy from Proto.in and a VC who was an investment banker in his previous avatar.They have following advice to budding entrepreneurs,
1. Identify a problem
2. Look out for a solution
3. Validate the idea.
4. Look out for a Mentor
5. Structure your organization, define roles for various people in the org.
6. Decide a business model: Monetize the idea
7. Launch prototype
8. Mind sharing(blog, podcasts, barcamps etc.)
9. Funding (prefer angels)
10. Scale up
11. Expansion

Business plan: Write a business plan for yourself not for VC's. if you are going to write it casually, then VC's are going to do the same.

11:00 AM: Roaming around, talking to people about Pune, Bangalore, Expensometer, Clubhack, Ruby collective.

01:00 pm: Having lunch, met Sean who runs Babalife and Babajob, an Indian networking website. Babajob allows jobs based on referrals among the community. I show him Expensometer and has some good ideas on making the UI more intuitive which would motivate the users to use the site. he explains how important and useful SMS integration is for such a website. I agree and tell him plans about integration with SMS gateways.

03:00 PM: I am attending a session by Bhavin on Active Messaging plugin in Rails, which would allow integration of Rails apps with already existing enterprise applications. here are more details about the plugin,
1. http://code.google.com/p/activemessaging/wiki/ActiveMessaging
2. http://www.infoq.com/articles/intro-active-messaging-rails

03:30 PM: Satish Kota from heurion consulting, starts to talk about Ruby, Rails and Active Record. he explains various principles of Ruby and Rails like DRY, Convention over Configuration, etc.

04:15 PM: I decide to call it a day since I had to board a flight in another couple of hours.
08:30 PM: Welcome to Mumbai, thats what Rain god has to say.
01:00 AM: I am at my home in Pune, hitting my bed and retrospecting last 2 days.

Thanks to all the organizers, volunteers, Banglorians for making this barcamp a success.