A talk on “An Introduction to Venture Capital” was organized on 22nd December, 2011 Thursday by Prof. Jay Misra, MBA from Harvard, Amrita University. His talk mainly focused on understanding the motivations of a Venture Capital firm. He interacted with the TBIs and gave examples about how VC funding works in Silicon Valley and India. ..more
A talk was organized on 15th December, 2011 Thursday by Prof. Shubha Ghosh from University of Wisconsin, USA on "Business Strategies for Commercializing Intellectual Property". Prof. Ghosh has authored over fifty scholarly articles and book chapters as well as several books in the fields of intellectual property, competition law and policy, international law, and legal theory. His talk focussed on the following: ..more
A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention. Rather, a patent provides the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the patented invention for the terms of the patent. ConnectONE scheduled a talk on "Introduction to Intellectual Property: Patents" on 8th December, 2011 Thursday by Mr. Narayanan. The talk focused on detailed overview on patents – patent vocabulary, application filing procedures and processes, ...more
The challenge of B2B Marketing lies in generating high volume of high quality leads and retaining customers for future business transactions. On top of it, newer marketing techniques such as Intelligent Market Automation, Online Marketing and CRM systems create tons of data pertaining to customer preferences and insights into what is working and what is not. ConnectONE scheduled a talk on "B2B Marketing" on 29th November 2011. Mr. Kunwar Sachdev, CEO & Founder of Su-Kam Power Systems ...more
The choice of a legal entity to own and operate a new enterprise, and to what extent to finance with equity or debt, is a crucial decision at the beginning of any venture. It can affect the allocation of risks from the venture, the structure of management and the sharing of profits. Prof. Alan Madry from Marquette University Law School, USA gave a talk on "Setting up legal entities for new ventures" on 17th November 2011 Thursday. ...more
It is a big challenge to identify an opportunity, to build a product around it and to develop its market. Learning to serve the customers and doing it in the most beneficial way is very important for any organization. On 3rd November, 2011 ConnectONE organized a talk on "Product and Market development". Dr. Anantha Sethuraman, CEO of DFMSim, California was the speaker for this session and he shared his experience of building products with all the young entrepreneurs....more
Highly concentrated urban areas with very high literacy rates, a vast rural population with fast increasing literacy rate, a rapidly growing internet user base, technology advancement and adoption and such other factors make India a dream destination for e-commerce players. ConnectONE organized another talk on "E-Commerce and its future opportunities" in India on 16th September, 2011 . Mr.Bahl shared his insights about the growing potential of ecommerce market in India & shared few practical methodologies.. ...more
ConnectONE & Amrita TBI announced the commencement of Distinguished Lecture Series. This series will have successful entrepreneurs as well as experts in the field of science, engineering and medicine from all over the world. As part of this series, there was a talk on "The factor that predicts Success in Business" on 6th September, 2011 by Dr. Diana Wais, an entrepreneur & consultant at London Business school. ...more
Analyzing the technical feasibility and economic viability of a project proposal is one of the cardinal steps for any type of companies. To throw some light on this area ConnectONE organized a talk on 6th July 2011. The chief guest for the interaction was Mr.R K Zutshi, CEO of Hardicon Limited who shared his knowledge and personal experience regarding project appraisal. The session was very informative and moreover inspiring and the involvement of Mr. Sujit Banerjee, Director of ConnectONE added more to it. ...more
To create awareness among faculties about various facts of entrepreneurship, a seminar on Faculty Awareness of Technology based Entrepreneurship, was held at Faridabad on 20th January 2011.ConnectONE participated in the event which was organized by Hardicon Ltd, a consultancy organization set-up by All India Financial Institutions via. IFCI, IDBI, ICICI in association with Delhi Financial Corporation and Nationalized Banks....more
With a mission to promote novel concepts in the business sector, ConnectONE organized an interactive session with Dr.T. Prasad, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in Institute of Industrial Engineering on 23rd December 2010 for Mandi (Marketing and Innovation), the innovative pedagogy for effective learning to sell a product and to deal with customers. While addressing the TBIs, Dr. T. Prasad said, "Working in a team involves a lot of cooperation and coordination."...more
As part of ConnectONE initiatives to enhance and foster entrepreneurship, a meeting titled,"Opportunities in the field of Entrepreneurship" was held at Amritapuri Campus, Kollam on 16th December 2010.On this occasion, Director of ConnectONE Mr. Sujit Banerjee briefed the role of entrepreneurship and its importance in the growth of a nation and its economy."India is developing economically and opportunities galore in entrepreneurship.The nation would get the maximum benefit ...more
Amrita University organized an International CEO Summit on Feb 8th, 2010 at Taj Gateway, Bangalore. The theme of the conference was "Innovation enriched by human values and business ethics for sustainability The summit brought together business leaders from India and USA to give talks on some of the latest topics of Innovation, Human values, and Business Ethics.It provided a platform for business leaders from industry and academia to deliberate on the latest trends "...more
As part of the ConnectONE initiatives, a summit named "Empowering Incubators – Training the Trainers Initiative" was held at TiE Auditorium by the The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Santa Clara on Nov 24, 2009 Some of the most senior members of the entrepreneurship community from the Silicon Valley Bay Area in the USA held seminars and interactive discussions. This was attended by several TBI managers and the ConnectONE directors, who were visiting the USA. ....more
TiEcon Delhi 2009, one of India's largest entrepreneurship conference was held at The Taj Palace, New Delhi. The conference was kicked off with a welcoming note by Dr. Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman Emeritus, The Indus Entrepreneurs, (TiE), New Delhi followed by an inaugural address by Mr. P. Chidambaram, Ministry of Home Affairs, India. Mr. Chidambaram's address was followed by an address by Sir Richard Stagg, KMCG, British High Commissioner. ...more