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Setting up business in UK, What is Required?- Friday 2.0 (44th Session)
Business Structure and Taxation Perspective for Indian IT companies
Presenter: Tim Stovold, Kingston Smith LLP
Thinking of setting up a business in UK!
How will you Identify the best-fit business structure for your company?
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”.
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: 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.
EMERGEOUT Conclave 2008: On-Demand model for the domestic market
On-demand (OD) computing is an increasingly popular enterprise model in which computing resources are made available to the user as needed. The focus of this session is to discuss the appropriateness of this Model in Indian market. The great part is that this session is conduced in an “UnConference” Interactive mode.
EMERGEOUT Conclave 2008: Evolving a Strategy
This is the first session after the inaugural session of EMERGEOUT Conclave. “Evolving a Strategy for Startups & Emerging Companies” focus on the primary challenge all the emerging companies have to deal with: How to ongoingly mature the strategy while dealing with the day-to-day implementation challenges. The speakers of this session have significant depth of experience and have played the key role in evolving the strategy of their respective organizations. This session stated with the introductory remarks by, Sashi Reddi, Founder & Chairman, Applabs
EMERGEOUT Conclave 2008: Confessions of Entrepreneurs
This session focused on the various aspects an entrepreneur needs to consider as they go through the lifecycle of building the company. The panelists spent time talking about the 3 key areas that an organization needs to worry about
- Building an organization
- Sales
- People & Talent
Gowri Shankar Subramanian introduced the speakers and panelists.
