HEN India : Red Letter Day Post

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Her Entrepreneurial Network is a platform to bring Indian women entrepreneurs together to INSPIRE, INFORM & SUPPORT each other to create successful businesses with balanced lives. HEN- Her Entrepreneurial Network is about empowering Indian Women in Business and understands their scope and growth of work better.

 

HEN’s mission is to enhance the culture of entrepreneurship among Indian women in business through networking, sharing information and experiences to support & inspire each other to create successful businesses, while balancing personal and professional life.

The network was initiated on 5th January, 2011 and today is a network of 1200+Indian women entrepreneurs. HEN INDIA is meant to bring Indian Women Entrepreneurs to come on one platform to exchange business services. Come together to learn and grow and create an healthy environment for professional competition.

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Ecopreneurist : a blog for eco-entrepreneurs

Ecopreneurist is a blog for eco-minded entrepreneurs. They deliver advice, tools, and services to help fellow eco-entrepreneurs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. It contains information and advice covering business and management tasks, including eco-marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people, and other sustainable start-up opportunities. 

Ecopreneurist covers the latest trends in sustainable and socially responsible startups, companies and products. Their target audience consists of eco-entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs incorporating sustainability into their business plans. They also bring eco-business success stories to its readers.

Ecopreneurist.com is part of the Important Media network that combines the observations of a wide variety of well-known writers in the sustainable business eco-sphere.

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Change Talk with Sarvesh Agrawal

An exclusive interview of

Sarvesh Agrawal, brain behind Internshala, with

N2MN changemaker Brototi Roy.

Internshala is an online platform meant to help students all over India with their quest for a meaningful summer internship. Engineering / Technology and Social Entrepreneurship / Public Service opportunities are its primary interest areas with special focus on start ups.

Journey from a business analyst to an entrepreneur would have not been easy, tell us about the driving force that motivated you to start INTERNSHALA?

Ever since I graduated from IIT Madras in 2006 I wanted to do a start up because I felt that learning and fun involved would be immense. I am fascinated by the impact Education and Technology can have on a human being's life, having been the first hand beneficiary of both myself, and wanted to do something in this area.

In October 2010, while brain storming with a few friends on possible business ideas we zeroed down on a student portal (which quickly distilled down to an internship portal given the obvious need and absence of any major players). At the same time a friend of mine from IIT Madras days, who was then doing his MBA from London Business School, was looking for an internship in India in a niche area and could not get any despite such academic credentials which I found very odd and the decision to start an internship portal was confirmed.

First thing that comes in your mind when you think about INTERNSHALA?

Meaningful internships.

Financing a new budding organization is always a problematic task… how you managed to finance INTERNSHALA?

Internshala is advantaged in a sense that it works with youth who are always willing to lend a helping hand to a cause that they so closely identify with. Lot of students from all over India intern/volunteer with Internshala because they relate to the problem we are trying to solve and believe in Internshala – this takes away considerable amount of manpower cost.

In addition, lot of other businesses who want to reach out to growing youth market segment, use Internshala platform to advertise their product and services for a fee which helps keep the ball rolling. Given most of its online, we have been able to keep the operating costs low by using lots of freewares (Wordpress, Google Apps etc.) which has also helped.

You work closely with youths. How you see them shaping the future of India by working towards the sustainable development?

One thing that is obvious is that in today’s social media age, youth is more aware and can easily lend voice to a cause if it strikes a chord. However, it’s on us to guide and channel this increased awareness and energy towards a worthy cause. Today’s youth are not afraid of voicing their opinions and are more willing to take risk today compared to a decade ago. Hopefully some of this would translate into a better future for all of us.

One significant moment that changed the social arena for once and all in India in last 12 years? 

I’d think that it is Right to Information act – the reason I say so is because this empowers a common citizen to become a watch dog for many social welfare schemes being run by the government and hence, perhaps, ensuring better delivery.

At a global level, I think its advent of Social Media which has changed the way we interact and react to outside world for ever and social arena is not left out. Support for Anna Hajare’s campaign on Facebook is a prime example.

A Word of guidance to News Not Making News for revolutionizing the news sector in India?  

I am too young and inexperienced to offer any guidance but as a reader I think there are two main challenges:-

• How do you stay away from the peer pressure of ‘Breaking News’ culture and still be able to get reader’s attention in today’s 140 characters tweet age

• When ‘Paid News’ is becoming an acceptable norm, how do you win the trust of the readers as source of authentic and unbiased news? It’s scary that today even Media cannot be trusted as being a truthful guardian of democracy. 

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Creativa India

Inputs: Kanika Kakkar

 

Creativa India spread its wings to take its first flight in July 2010. Himanshu Bhalla, a young aspiring entrepreneur, wanted to take the next step and intended to create a company that added a differential to every business aiming at exclusive branding and marketing expertise. He took forth his idea with enthusiasm and determination and thus, Creativa India was born.

They do Creative Advertising and Media Marketing across online and offline platforms. Currently, the company specialize into Social Media and Creative concepts. They have worked with brands into Automobile, Book Publishing, Education, Mobiles and Retail since they started last year.

Dinesh Juneja, a friend & his partner at Creativa, shared similar thoughts and passion. They share a long term vision to take Creativa to the top & together have been working on making this dream come true.

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InVenture

InVenture unleashes the potential of developing entrepreneurs to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty by connecting individuals directly with these entrepreneurs, thus enabling the opportunity to create long-term substantial impact.

InVenture was started to give everyday people the opportunity to partner with businesses all over the world -- businesses that can become engines for economic growth and change the fate of their communities.

InVenture wants to change the present system of collapsing micro-business. It wants to solve the problem of the undeserved "missing middle" in developing economies by giving developing entrepreneurs the chance to expand, to employ more of their neighbors, and to lift their communities out of poverty. 

InVenture motto: Together, we'll grow good businesses and good communities — and create markets where other individuals, their families, and their businesses can flourish/succeed.

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I AM STARTING

India’s 1st podcast for upcoming entrepreneurs & Indian start-ups.

You can listen to and Watch the first hand start-up stories of the founders on how they got started, what have been their challenges, the mistakes made and the lessons learnt.

Listen to their stories, watch how they formulate ideas, create strategies, change directions and make choices. Listen, learn, empathize, agree, disagree and develop your own point of view.

Know more about them  Click here. 

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Studpreneur

Studpreneur is India’s first Exclusive “Student startup Catalyst” firm. It host playground for existing and wannable Gen-Y Student Entrepreneurs. They are an Active Catalyzer in creating  Sustainable, Scalable & Profitable Student Startups. 

 

They work in exploring and road mapping Sustainability, Scalability and Profitability which they term as the three Startup Success zones of Studpreneur. Every initiative of Studpreneur will be directed towards a Student startup achieving the entry to these success zones.

Its mission is to innovate the student startup culture & help create Sustainable, Scalable & Profitable student start ups. They work for the empowerment of youth and transforming lives via enterprise.

If you are a student looking to startup then connect with like minded Souls at Studpreneur, Click here. 
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Vijay Anand : The Startup Guy

Vijay Anand, an Indian entrepreneur, passionate and driven by technologies related to the Mobile, VoIP, and Emerging Internet space, with a wide range of interests from simple economics to biotechnology and genetics, with a biased corner for anything related to artificial intelligence and neuro-science.

Putting words into action, he is the Founder of Proto.in, the startup ecosystem body, and has been a driving force in being involved in community events such as Barcamp Chennai, Blogcamp, Wikicamp, Podworks, Open Coffee Club in Chennai and seeding such similar initiatives across the country.

Vijay strongly believes that it is the right mix of Technology, Business models, execution and timing that great companies are made of.  As a revolutionary in heart, he seeks to change the global perception to India being much more than just an outsourcing destination.

He is also on-board a few companies and teams, providing strategic advice and consulting on Product Management, Strategy and Business Operations.

Know more about Vijay Anand, click here. 

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