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VESIM Literati Fest: "Roots to Wings: Exploring India's Entrepreneurial Footprint"

Name: VESIM Literati Fest: "Roots to Wings: Exploring India's Entrepreneurial Footprint"
Start: 2018-01-12T17:30:00+05:30
End: 2018-01-12T18:30:00+05:30
Location: VESIM Literati Fest 495/497, Hashu Advani Memorial Complex, Collectors Colony, Chembur, Wadivali Village, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400074 Mumbai, India

Happened

Friday, 12 January 2018, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

VESIM Literati Fest 495/497, Hashu Advani Memorial Complex, Collectors Colony, Chembur, Wadivali Village, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400074 Mumbai, India

Mumbai

About

eChai will be hosting the entrepreneurship panel discussion at VESIM Literati Fest on 12th Jan, Friday from 12 pm to 1 pm. Speakers: - Kailash Adhikari, MD, Governance Now - A Sri Adhikari Brothers Enterprise - Ghanshyam Dholakia, Founder & MD, Hari Krishna Exports - Jatin Chaudhary, Salesman, eChai - Amit Panchal, Co-Founder, AllEvents.in - Akshaye Rathi, Film Exhibitor & Distributor And many other awesome founders are joining in for this program. ---- Vesim Literati Fest aims to provide a platform for interaction between writers and young readers. It's our attempt to celebrate writers within us and all around the world. It's unique in its way as it is only literature festival in INDIA which is organized by students. Come Join us on January 12th & 13th,2018 and experience an atmosphere of literature with a blend of creativity, youth power & entertainment...✌️ More info about VESIM Literati Fest @ https://vesimliteratifest.com/ ----- Speakers profiles: GHANSHYAM DHOLAKIA: Founder and MD of Hari Krishna Export, he came to Mumbai from Surat in 1990 with diamond dreams. In a span of nineteen years, the company has travelled from being an entrepreneurial stint of four brothers to a group with interests in domestic and international business arenas. He adds that, “our motto is to reach out to the end consumer so that Hari Krishna Exports is recognised as a brand”. In 2005, they started their domestic jewellery brand Kisna. He also says that, "We treat our customers as our family members. We don’t treat business as business which is done once." KAILASHNATH ADHIKARI: Kailash became an Govt. of India official having experience of working with the erstwhile Planning Commission of India in the rank of a deputy secretary to GOI. He was in the office of Member. Dr Narendra Jadhav and was handling affairs of Ministry of HRD, Labour& Employment, Social Justice & Empowerment and also states of Tamil Nadu, Goa & Bihar. Kailash currently looks after the publication arm of the group ‘Governance Now’ and is responsible for creating new verticals for the publication business namely Digital vertical and Capacity Building Seminars. JATIN CHAUDHARY: He is the Co-Founder & Salesman, eChai Ventures, an offline-online Startup Social Network. He has conceptualized & hosts - eChai programs across 20+ cities - a pioneering initiative to provide the platform to young entrepreneurs of all across India. Every month over 5000+ entrepreneurs, professionals, students, and mentors come together at various eChai programs to connect, share and collaborate with each other and most importantly to get - an eChai's He leads the overall strategy and business development of “Sweetly”, an incredible venture which provides economic benefits of employment to almost 50 women living in Dangs forests, Gujarat by enabling them to make handmade jewelry and selling these products into global markets. AMIT PANCHAL: He Co-founder & CEO of All Events in City - world's fastest growing Event Discovery, Promotion & Ticketing platform.They started Amitech as an IT services company initially and completed multiple projects with various technologies. While they were serving their clients, they started shaping the ideas into products and built many products. Out of this, All Events in is the most successful product of our company.All Events in helps people to discover all kind of events happening around them in their cities. Currently they have got more than 150 million events posted and across 30k cities of the world. AKSHAYE RATHI: He is a film exhibitor & distributor with operations spread across the central Indian states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh. He has been a pioneer in the process of consolidation of the film exhibition sector by orchestrating a first of its kind alliance between single screen cinemas of his chain with the Cinepolis, one of the largest exhibition chains in the world that operates from Mexico. He is a teacher at various management & media institutes as a visiting faculty. Also, a regular columnist with various business & entertainment publications.

Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Each partnership comes with presence across eChai, introductions to the right founders, and a team that stays involved through the year. And each one is shaped around what the brand wants out of it.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. When one fits what you do and who you want to meet, you are on the list.

What we do with you

We sit down with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

How it works.

A partnership is for growth stage founders who want to come in as a partner brand, and it runs one year at a time. The brand fee for the year is paid to eChai. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.