It’s always nice to be at M.O.P. Vaishnav College for Women sharing thoughts and contributing to their Entrepreneurship drive initiative. This year it was focused in including faculty from various colleges in and around #chennai . Shyam Sekar S, CEO of Startup Xperts had talk on Institutional Linkages in Entrepreneurship building. Happy to be a part this year as well and looking to continue our association in future programs as well!
It was wonderful to see a great initiative at Andaman – MYENA, My Andaman Entrepreneurs Awards 2019. Mr. Shyam Sekar S, deliver a keynote on Transforming Businesspersons to Entrepreneurs. Thrilled to see the arrangements incl visible posters in the city. Glad to have the Honourable MP delivering a great talk!
This initiative couldn’t have been possible without my proud Mentee Sunil Gupta who is getting entrenched into the startup, entrepreneurship ecosystem. Thanks Mr. Sunil for your initiative, hospitality, and look forward to seeing bigger programs as you have set the bar high.
IIT Bombay organizes Illuminate – National BMC Workshops in about 40+ cities across India, and had organized this Business Model Canvas Workshop at National Engineering College (NEC) Kovilpatti.
IIT Bombay had requested Shyam Sekar S, Founder and Chief Mentor @ Startup Xperts, to conduct the 1-day session on Entrepreneurship and Business Model Canvas to the aspiring entrepreneurs at NEC. Shyam had conducted this 1-day workshop successfully on 20-Sep 2019 and over 80 students attended this program. Speaking at this event, Shyam had highlighted the importance of creating rural entrepreneurs and that the spirt of entrepreneurship has to spread well beyond the cities and into smaller towns and villages as well.
Mentoring IIT-Madras Startups
Shyam Sekar, Chief Mentor and Strategist at Startup Xperts was invited to Mentor shortlisted startups at IIT-Madras. Shyam has been mentoring numerous startups and aspiring entrepreneurs at IIT Madras for many years now, and the quality of new ideas that can be executed is turning out better.
There were 2 different sessions conducted as a process of shortlist and Shyam had mentored many startup ideas in Aug and Sept, at IIT Madras.
The talk BIG IDEAS – for SMEs and Startups event, held yet another successful conference on Saturday, 29-June 2019 @ Hotel Radisson Blu, Bangalore. The event had an estimated 300 delegates in all, with topclass speakers, and exhibitors.
One of the interesting Panel Discussion – MANAGING TECH, TALENT, AND FUND – THE STARTUP STRATEGY was moderated by Shyam Sekar, CEO & Strategist – Startup Xperts, and the panel speakers were KCfrom Google, Ankit Shukla from Sumadhura group. The discussion was very thought provoking, making it interesting and exciting for the delegates.
Being their Knowledge Partner, Startup Xperts had managed the process of shortlist and finalizing entrepreneurs for various Awards categories that included Emerging SME Entrepreneur Awards, Women Entrepreneur Awards, and also Inspiring Women Entrepreneur Award, Bangalore.
NASSCOM organized the CEO Roundtable meeting at The Hilton Hotel, Chennai on Tue, 30-April 2019. NASSCOM had invited Mr Shyam Sekar S, Founder and CEO – Startup Xperts to Chair the meet, and act as the Moderator for the day. The topic that he moderated was ‘Are we strategically and digitally aligned for our business growth?’
The average age of an S&P 500 company was 60 years in 1950s, but today it has come down to about 20 years; and expected to be just 12 years by 2027! With such major disruption happening even with large global enterprises, the threat to SMEs and startups are at an alarmingly high level like never!
Now, are we ready to withstand such transformation? One of the main reasons that many SMEs either do not grow, or fade away is due to their poor online or digital presence. As Technology is an enabler and the biggest disruptor of businesses. Digital transformation is a MUST for small businesses and startups! Do we have the right strategy, necessary systems and processes.
In today’s environment, small businesses are not focusing enough on strategy. Those SMEs who have multiple departments, structures, are having strategic planning exercise but without a ‘strategic intent’. Or is technology going to disrupt their business and move them away to extinction?
This interesting meet had around couple of dozen CxOs, Business owners, Directors etc. The objective of this meeting was to share thoughts, insights and find potential solutions to the challenges faced by the SME Businesses today. This meet was very well appreciated both by the NASSCOM team, as well as the CXO participants, as it provided immense valueand information exchange.
