Archive for September, 2008
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EMERGEOUT Conclave 2008: Closing Remarks
Dr. Ganesh Natarajan talked about a research project they undertook. They studied 3 people for 6 months.
- Bawa Kalyani from Pune who created the world’s largest forging company.
- Kalyani mistry with Aakanksha (NGO helping young kids become self-dependent)
- Dev Anand
What they found common among all 3 of these people is the “Ability to take passion from within your heart and transfer to others (your team)”.
EMERGEOUT Conclave 2008: Who Dares Wins
Mr. Kiran Karnik, the man behind the foundation of the NASSCOM Emerge Forum, started the session by briefly introducing Mr. Raman Roy. He said that Mr. Raman Roy, given his series of successes, would probably one day be recognized as the “Grandfather of the Indian BPO Industry”.
Who Dares Wins! – The valedictory session @ the NASSCOM EMERGE OUT Conclave!
The valedictory session @ the NASSCOM EMERGE OUT Conclave!
Its been a good long day of learning and a multitude of valuable lessons for startups and emerging companies.
What better than Mr. Kiran Karnik and Mr. Raman Roy delivering the session. A fiery charged up entrepreneur, discussing his Four ventures! Four ventures one may say, well he dared and created 35000 jobs! An answer worth to people who challenged Raman!
EMERGEOUT Conclave 2008: Before and after your funding
Sanjay Anandram – Founder, Jumpstartup started the session by highlighting the following key aspects to take care of during the initial stage of starting an Enterprise:
- Whatever assumption you will make will invariably go wrong
- Cash is King
He also mentioned following four critical aspects that entrepreneurs’ needs to take are of before taking decisions in the early stage:
EMERGEOUT Conclave 2008: Building & Sustaining the Right Team
Mr. Natarajan kicked off the session and started with the traits of high performance teams, which is valid for organizations of all size.
- Creating an organizational engagement. Not just selecting the right team.
- Entrepreneurship
- Willingness to go the extra mile
- Integrity
- Personal drive or passion
EMERGEOUT Conclave 2008: Defining your Value Proposition
The session started with everyone sharing about the challenges they are facing while creating an organization. Some of the key challenges that people mentioned include defining value proposition, creating a differentiation, retaining employees, scaling up the operations and exploring market opportunities. The hall was fully packed with around 30% of participants standing. Good Participation :-)
EMERGEOUT Conclave 2008: Real Feedback from Real Delegates!
As most of you would already know, this conference is a true community event – most of the program has been created through direct inputs from the attendees. This spirit of the event could not be complete without capturing and sharing the direct feedback from the creators of the conference – delegates. Here is a real feedback from few of the randomly selected delegates:
Feedback from the eye of the sponsor and partner
Well, here we go…half way through the NASSCOM EMERGE OUT Conclave, and we present the feedback from sponsors and other delegates, about how do they feel of the conclave!
Mr. Vijay Anand, Founder Proto.in shares his views as the partner -:
On the startup panel-: The startup panel could definitely be strengthend.
A disconnect?
There should be proper distinction on the product and the service space. Well, thanks Vijay…looking out for more from you 
EMERGEOUT Conclave 2008: Wooing the Customer..
After a sumptuous lunch, the session started with the topic of “wooing the customer”. It took time for everyone to get organized and seated.
Suresh kicked it off by starting to talk about the word “CUSTOMER”. My question while sitting in the session is why do we have 3 CIO’s as panelists for a session focused on Wooing the Customers. We should find out soon.
