Yo boys! We are going to have some fun. With the geek boys. And the soup girls.

We’ll be shooting a video with start-up insights and stories in ‘Kolaveri Di’ style. The lyrics of the song will be crowd-sourced using Twitter and Facebook. The video shooting will be done during iWeekend Pune on December 2-4, 2011. Filmy guy – Navin Boricha – who runs a start-up called Meri Maa Cinemaa will be helping us to make this video.

We really love the original song for the soup boys, Our song will be for the geek boys and the soup girls.

You can be a part of this video by participating in the “Why this Startupveri Di” Contest!
(Contest closes on Friday – December 2nd at 2 pm.)

What do you have to do?

Share interesting start-up insights, stories, jokes etc. in the most funny, creative and kolaveri way on Twitter and Facebook.

Sample Tweets:
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Feel hungry. Eat-u Maggi. Keep writing code-u. @startupveri

Night-u Night-u. Overnight-u. I want to sleep now-u. @startupveri

Funding Got-u. VC Pesters-u. Girlfriends Run Lola Run-u. @startupveri
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For Twitter message, do mention @startupveri to be eligible for the contest

For Facebook message, comment using FB comments at the bottom of this blog post.

If you are writing a longer FB post, then you can also replace ‘Startupveri’ with your ‘own Startup name’ and share the story of “Why this Di”. For example:

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Why this iWeekend Di…

Idea come-u. Want to bounce-u. Need smart people-u.

At iWeekend-u.. Mentors come-u. All help-u.

Form a team-u. Business plan-u. And a prototype-uuuu

Win-u Win-u. Prize-u Prize-u. Meet angel investors-u.

Why this… Why this… Why this… iWeekend Di!

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(Psst.. We know you can come up with much better messages)

What are the prizes?

Most creative Tweets /FB Posts that are also shared/liked/retweeted the most will win the following prizes:

1. Two free passes to iWeekend Pune (one of the already registered participant whose messages we like the most will get a refund)

2. 10 special invites to join us at iWeekend Pune to be a part of the “Why this Startupveri Di” video shoot and for the final demos on Sunday evening.

3. One-year free subscription of DeskAway.com to one winner

4. More special prizes will be announced

And of-course you can be a part of this video in any of the following ways:

1. Your tweets/messages become a part of the lyrics. We will do our best to give credits to everyone who will be a part of this video. But it’s possible that the same message is tweeted by multiple people and we might err in giving the right source. This video will be just for fun, so no kolaveri di!

2. If you are in Pune, you can be invited to join us when we shoot the video.

3. You can send us a recorded video of 30 to 90 seconds and if the director likes it then he can use it. Or simply send us your funniest photos with your kolaveri messages and we can even use images in a stop-motion video.

Don’t wait-u. Go tweet-u. Friends Like-u.

The following special prizes have been added for iWeekend Pune winners:

1. Springboard Ventures will provide detailed business plan making support – including market study, detailed financial projections, go-to-market strategy and potential Investors’ presentation to one winning entry at iWeekend Pune. The cost value of this incentive is INR 2 Lakhs and will be provided completely free to the winner.

2. Grow VC India is going to be re-launched with a new version of their crowd-funding platform. As part of the launch campaign , promising start-ups and idea-stage ventures from across India will be given an opportunity to pitch to investors across the nation through a live webinar. One finalist from iWeekend Pune will be directly shortlisted as one of the idea-stage ventures.

3. DeskAway will give a free 1-year subscription of its project collaboration software to the winning ideas at iWeekend Pune.

Sahil Parikh, Founder of DeskAway was a mentor at iWeekend Mumbai and his presentation on “10 insights on starting a web product company” was loved by everyone! While he won’t be able to join us at iWeekend Pune, he readily offered a free 1-year subscription to the winners. When I asked him, to how many winners would you like to offer this as we don’t rank the winner and consider all final short-listed ideas as winners, he replied “all winners”. Thanks Sahil!

Satish Kataria, Managing Director of Springboard Ventures and Grow VC India was a mentor too at iWeekend Mumbai. He and his partner were present at iWeekend Mumbai for the entire 2.5 days and provided excellent insights to the participants. We had received special mentions from the participants thanking Satish for his excellent mentorship. He could not join us personal at iWeekend Pune but that doesn’t stop him from showering his start-up love for iWeekend and we really thank him for the special prize from Springboard Ventures and Grow VC India.

So the line-up at iWeekend Pune is getting more and more exciting. Come on Pune, let’s have a great iWeekend!