By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh
13th August:- Job seekers can be job creators, and
for that you don’t need any financial investment, but a brilliant idea. If you
have that one idea, it can do wonders for you, and can make your journey
towards becoming a successful entrepreneur a smooth sail.
Prominent startups of city and other
experts today came together for a free mentoring of wannabe entrepreneurs. Over
100 college and university students from city, and Punjab today got lessons in a
day-long workshop, 'Entrepreneurship
Vibes' held at Innov8, a co-working space for startups in
Industrial Area Phase I here.
The students came from Chitkara
University, Chandigarh University, Panjab University and GGDSD College, Sector
32 here. Students of different colleges of Ludhiana were also a part of the
day-long mentoring sessions at the co-working space.
Key speakers were Akshay Ahuja,
Founder, RoboChamps, Divya Kothari & Heema Singla, Co-Founders,
Techcronies, Palak Saboo of Misfits, Manish Kumar, Founder, MobiProbe,
Sulakshna Bramta, Media Strategist and Motivational Speaker. Vineet Khurana,
VP, Operations at Chandigarh Angel Network (CAN) and Dr Madhuri Sharma,
Associate Director at Chitkara University – Centre for Entrepreneurship
Education and Development (CEED) were guest speakers and also held sessions
with the students.
Akshay
Ahuja, Founder, RoboChamps India, while interacting with budding
entrepreneurs, said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi initiated Startup India,
and we should take it forward by promoting the initiative and build a community
of entrepreneurs. He added that there is hexagonal topography, a study done by
the World Bank shows that if we go back by 20 years, people were making use of
products made in the US and this trend shifted to Made in China but the study
further adds, it will shift to Made in India in the coming 2 to 3 years because
60 percent of population in India is youth and there not as many jobs and the
only way is to become entrepreneurs.
Divya
Kothari, Co-Founder, Techcronies, in her session said that for her entrepreneurship is
completely dedicating you to create something out of nothing. It’s simply
taking risk and hoping for big rewards. It is the belief in your potentials
even if they haven’t seen the results. The whole point is to get started and
work for you and make mistakes. Our mistakes are our experience. Working under
some organized environment will not give you the exposure which you are going
to get when you building something on your own. Our startup Techcronies is a
result of “Two Girls with a wifi, a
Laptop and a Dream.
Heema
Singla, Co-Founder, Techcronies said that small city, Big dreams.
Don't say you cannot work until and unless you are not connected to or staying
in a metropolitan city and it's just in the mind. She handle 80 percent of her
operations from her own city. That is the power of the internet when it comes
to connecting you to the world. You just need to feel it. That is power of
entrepreneurship: My time, my space, my work. Do what you want to do, love what
you do and feel the positive energy around you. For her, entrepreneurship is
all about the 5 P's - passion, performance, positivity, parents, partner.
Akshay Ahuja
of RoboChamps who was the organizer of the event along with Techcronies
informed that the purpose of this event was to provide a platform that will
inspire college students to work on their ideas while studying
simultaneously. This is to let them know that this time is right to get
started being in this era of internet. This is the time when they can work
on their ideas without too much of monetary investment. They can pursue their
dreams while they are young as many of successful entrepreneurs only wish if
they had started earlier.
The workshop on its agenda had sessions
on entrepreneurship, how to start a startup, when to scale your startup, team
building, and mastering networking. All participants were also given
certificates. The module had been designed for students and professionals to
help them take the next step into their entrepreneurial journey.
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