Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 12: International Centre for Cross Cultural Research and Human Resource Management (ICccR & HRM), University of Jammu, in collaboration with the Jammu StartUp Community today organised a ‘StartUp Talk’ on “101 of Starting Your Venture”.
The underlying objective of the talk was to instill amongst students knowledge about Entrepreneurship, Start-Up Creation, Start-Up ecosystems and Venture Capital Funding. The talk primarily highlighted the crucial enablers of Start-Up initiation and how sustainability in terms of Start-Up scalability, consistency and profitability can be met. The contents of talk were inclusive of deliberations pertaining to incubator and accelerator access and the relevance of ecosystem that enable the next generation entrepreneurs to dabble in incremental innovation.
The Start-Up talk was initiated by Dheer Lalit Gupta, founder of GreenBubbles Start-Up Services Pvt Ltd, Bangalore with more than 18 years of global work experience in Technology and Management with Fortune 500 companies (Philips, Honeywell and Accenture). The talk centred on the concepts and practicalities of StartUp scaling, mentoring and industry connect, concept prototyping and global startup landscape and cross domain entrepreneurial specialisations. The talk also highlighted the importance of entrepreneurial communities in build national entrepreneurial ecosystems while quoting instances of SanFrancisco vis-a-vis Bangalore that is considered the heart of Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The discussion also highlighted that the emergence of technology as the key driver of venture and the consequent necessity of professional education for new venture creation has forever botched up the age old divergence in mindset.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Deepak Raj Gupta, Director, ICccR & HRM, JU, recalled that the Start Up Talk signals the fruition of past entrepreneurial events undertaken by the department for conception and creation of future entrepreneurial discourses. Such like events will positively converge into creation of academic ecosystems that support and endorse entrepreneurship and subsequent business mentoring from the experienced mentors need to be substituted for any classroom learning. He added.
The Start-Up Talk was attended by the faculty of ICccR & HRM, students and scholars of MBA (International Business), Home Science, Environmental Sciences, MIET- Jammu and representatives of JammuStartUp community.
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