B-Plan Contest Talk at Tagore Engineering College

Tagore Engineering College in association with IIT-Madras – The Center for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CSIE) organized a B-Plan Contest on 4 – 5 March 2019.  They had invited Shyam Sekar S, Founder & CEO of Startup Xperts, to deliver a talk on Entrepreneurship and Business Modelling for the aspiring entrepreneurs / students. 

The session was very interactive with a lot of thought provoking questions from the audience, showing that there can be potential entrepreneurs emerging from this institution.  The Head of Department and faculty thanked Shyam for sharing insights and approaches to their students, which could help increase the success quotient in their entrepreneurship ventures. 

Startup Workshop for Entrepreneurs at CIPET Chennai

Startup Xperts successfully conducted a 5-day workshop for entrepreneurs and aspiring ones, at CIPET, Chennai, under the TEDP (Technology Entrepreneurship Development Program).  This startup boot camp is part of the Central Govt. Initiative under the DST scheme.

Shyam Sekar S, Founder & CEO of Startup Xperts coached the participants across various aspects of entrepreneurship, case studies, idea generation and validation,market sizing and segmentation, digital marketing, understanding customers, business modeling, effective communication skills, and negotiation techniques. 

Startup Boot Camp / Entrepreneur Workshop

Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad (SLS-H), a constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, had invited Startup Xperts to conduct a 1-day Entrepreneurship Workshop.  Their Center for specialization in Business and Innovation, had organized this Startup Boot Camp for the aspiring entrepreneurs.

Shyam Sekar S, Founder and Chief Mentor – Startup Xperts, conducted this startup boot camp which was very well received. 

He was felicitated by the Director Dr Sukhvinder Singh Dari, Dr Prageetha, and Dr Rajinikanth. 

This Board of Entrepreneurs Startup Boot Camp had interactive sessions, case studies, and activities that were performed which helped them prepare business model andbusiness planning. 

1-day Startup Boot Camp for Early Stage Startups and Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Xperts successfully conducted 1-day Startup Boot Camp to early stage startups and aspiring entrepreneurs in Chennai, on Sat, 19-Jan 2019.  Mr Suneel of Mentor Ally, partner of Startup Xperts, organized this startup boot camp.

The event also had a session on great Entrepreneurship Insights from Mr Raghuvir Krishnan, Founder, Qualstra Consulting and an informative session on Funding from Mr Chandrashekar, Founder, Anova Corporate Services.

Mr Shyam Sekar, Founder and Chief Mentor of Startup Xperts, conducted the boot camp that covered topics right from how to shortlist and validate ideas, case studies examples, and finally covering the famous Business Model Canvas (BMC).  Participants were involved in activities in this hands-on workshop and they had prepared sample business model canvas towards the end of the session.  Finally, participants were issued certificates for successfully attending this 1-day startup boot camp.  Mr Shyam quoted, “This startup bootcamp vision is part of the knowledge sharing initiative of Board of Entrepreneurs, a unit of Startup Xperts! Preparing BMC takes time and participants did a wonderful job of understanding the concepts quickly to build a business model by the evening itself, speaks volumes of their involvement and commitment to learn. Happy to have coached them and hope they will take their startup ideas to the next level, after thisstartup bootcamp”. 

Mr Shyam also thanked Animator for support provided for the excellent venue in conducting this event!