International Entrepreneurship Conference on 'Moving Beyond the Metros' Held at Great Lakes

International Entrepreneurship Conference on 'Moving Beyond the Metros' Held at Great Lakes
Post-event Press-release

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He said that everything has a geographical context and what may be successful in Bangladesh and Mexico may not be successful elsewhere, and we need to understand the geopolitical contexts and hygiene factors.

Mr. T. N. Seshan, former Chief Election Commissioner and permanent Faculty at Great Lakes, delivered the valedictory session. He said entrepreneurship and leadership are like swimming and wondered if it could be taught. He advised the students to create jobs instead of going for jobs, by pursuing entrepreneurship particularly in the current scenario. Between knowledge, enterprise and human demand, the opportunities for entrepreneurship are abundant.

Other speakers who spoke on various topics were Mr. Ramraj R., President, TiE - EPR Plunge opportunity biz model, Dr. Arya Kumar, Chief Entrepreneurship Development IPR Unit, BITS Pilani, Mr. Madan Padaki, Co-founder MeritTrac, Mr. Ramakrishnan K., ED, Investment Banking, SPARK Capital, Ms. Anuradha Ramachandran, Principal, VentureEast-India, Mr. Nandakumar S., Founder & CEO, Perfint Technologies, Mr. Raghu Rajagopal, Founder & CEO, Energeate, Program Co-ordinator Chennai Fund, Mr. Parthasarthy S., Chairman & CEO, Nu Street Technologies, Mr. Sameer Mehta, Founding Director, Atlas Advisory & Ventures and COO, Dr. Mehta Hospitals, Mr. V. V. Ranganathan, Chairman, Compassites and Former Partner, E&Y, Mr. P. N.Vasudevan, Equitas Microfinance Ltd., etc.

Topics discussed ranged from EPR Funding Options, Scaling & Growing the Venture, What Makes Entrepreneurs Successful, Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Tier II and Tier III Cities, etc.

Concluded.

* Contributed by -
Ranjit Shankar (Campus Associate),
Class of 2009,
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai.

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