IMI, Delhi Organizes Entrepreneurship Conclave "Empezar ’10"

IMI, Delhi Organizes Entrepreneurship Conclave "Empezar ’10"

International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi recently held a two day “Entrepreneurship Conclave” on “Fostering Inclusive Entrepreneurship in India: A Close Reality or a distant dream ”. The conclave laid emphasis on the fact while entrepreneurship is a satisfying wealth creating option for the students, it is also bundled with many failures. However, the consensus being that the final outcome is always satisfying and wealth generating.

Organised by IMI Delhi's E Cell “Empezar 2010” The Entrepreneurship conclave was held over two days and had speakers from various professions.

While speaking during the two day conclave, Ms. Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (IAN) said, “entrepreneurship is not merely art and science. It also has emotions involved in it and we Indians make good entrepreneurs.” She further added that while entrepreneurship is an individualistic trait, team support is always required to catapult it to the next level. Quoting examples of firms like Avendors and Indiagames, she said that importance of a team is a great idea as even a great idea without a team to work on it can’t go too far.

According to Ms. Rai, who shared various aspects of her entrepreneurial journey, the greatest motivation for her being an entrepreneur was the idea of generating wealth, since wealth was a great enabler. She further spoke about the importance of belief and confidence in this journey filled with highs and lows, the importance of learning from one’s mistakes through thorough introspection, and the need for emotional support from one’s family in making the chosen entrepreneurial path a success.

Mr. Rajiv Kumar, Founder and CEO, RockeTalk, while talking about his experiences as an entrepreneur inspired the audience to dream, develop the ideas and not to be afraid of failures. “Failures will happen, but one has to keep pushing forward, since out of failures, emerge some of the greatest ideas,” he said.

The conclave also included a Workshop on ‘Idea Generation’ conducted by Ms. Mrinalini Shah, Professor, Operations, IMT Ghaziabad, in collaboration with the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). Through a fun-filled exercise, she delivered some extremely important lessons on working in teams as part of a venture.

The two day seminar concluded with a question answer session with the audience. The session then proceeded with ‘Elevator Pitch’, an inter-college brief – “Plan B” presentation event, which saw participation from colleges like IIFT Delhi, JBIMS, DMS IIT-D, MICA, FMS, and DSE.

Concluded.

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