April 1 is the final day to apply for the iAccelerator technology startup incubation program conducted by IIM Ahmedabad's Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship and UpStart.in a micro tech venture org made up of successful Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs.

Startups accepted into this program will receive up to 5 Lakh INR in funding along with significant support establishing their companies, getting their business and engineering processes in place and connecting with potential customers, partners and investors. Founders of these companies need to spend May 1 - Sept 1 working from Ahmedabad with the iAccelerator organizers to receive the full benefit of the program.

Dedicated teams of 2 - 5 founders with proven technical talent and a passion and commitment to create successful profitable businesses by solving people's needs with Internet web services or mobile applications are encouraged to apply

Parag Shah has graciously agreed to mentor a techstart.in club on Advanced Java.

Parag has a master's degree in computer science from the University of North Carolina (USA) and has been working in the software industry for over 10 years and training students in programming for several years as well.

TechStart.in is an experiment in technical training whereby mentors provide students with activities every month which will help them develop their skills beyond the rudimentary concepts taught in school. Students are expected to spend several hours a week working on the assignments and can use the online mailing list or blog comments to ask questions when they need help. Consistent, practical, ongoing practice can help all of us become masters of our field.

Parag's track is called 'Java Insights' and is aimed for people with some core java understanding already who are interested in further developing their skills as advanced java programmers.

Please visit the website and join us as we work together to become masters of our craft.