On February 11 (Saturday) from 10am to 2pm; eChai Ventures - Indore Chapter hosted "eChai for education: eCommerce Conference" in association with Kaffeinated Konversations and Just Storyteller at Institute of Management Studies, DAVV.
Individuals from leading e-commerce companies of Indore shared their knowledge and experience with the students.
Mayur Sethi, founder of Hoppingo and MP09Digital threw some light on various career options one may pursue in the e-commerce industry.
Sawan Laddha, founder of MP Angel Network briefed the students about importance of a business idea and it's execution. He told students that profitable business model must be given higher priority than bringing in the funds.
Mishal Jain, co-founder of Oye24 stressed on the importance of vision and mission of a company. No company's aim is to generate profit, profit is something you gain during the process, the main aim is to satisfy public's need.
Manish Vaswani, founder of Fullscoop enlightened the students about importance of localizing your business, he gave the example of Alibaba to justify his point.
Vasundhara Dubey, business analyst at Swan Angel Network told about the importance of a USP, and a promising business model in today's competitive scenario.
Pankaj Vijayvargiya, founder of Bitlevel international, asked the students to give special consideration to a catchy and brand-able domain name.
Akhil Kacholia, founder of Legal Buddy, gave a complete insight into evolution of e-commerce industry and it's future scope in India, he also discussed the importance of trademark, Copywriting and legal issues with the students.
Sahil Makhija, co-founder of Drugmegamart asked the students to start with the very basic aspects of the industry, like WordPress and blogging.
RJ Navneet spread positive vibes and lots of energy during the event, and had an entertaining interaction with the students.
Monkey's cafe and Rich Chocolatier provided refreshments for the conference.
The whole conference was summarized with an interactive and fruitful question and answer session, where students approached all the speakers with their doubts and queries.
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#eChaiIn100Colleges #eChaiForEducation
In addition to our existing initiatives, in next couple of months we'll be travelling to all over the country with some of the entrepreneurs from eChai community to visit campuses for #eChaiForEducation program which aims to empower students & professionals with engaging programs, mentorship support and knowledge resources by eChai community of entrepreneurs.
It would serve multiple purposes :
- Encourage students to be more entrepreneurial
- Help them with internship opportunities & project-based work with startups where students can learn and/or earn
- Enabling students entrepreneurs to help their ventures grow
- Engaging entrepreneurs from eChai community to work with students to help them learn real world things.
If you are into academics - then do connect with us on how we can work with your institute.
If you are an entrepreneur/professional - join us for some of the #eChaiForEducation programs in campuses.
If you are interested in this - then do support us with any of the above mentioned people to help us reach out to more institutes.
Help spread the word about it.
More info about how we are building the eChai' Startup Social network at http://eChai.in
...Toh Phir Ho Jaaye eChai in 100+ Colleges :-)
