Story of Entrepreneurship
Event Description
On 25th May 2020 under the Startup Sathi Webinar Series organized by iHub Gujarat & SSIP, Padma Bhushan Shri Ajai Chowdhry Ji had a Fireside Chat with Shri M Nagarajan and Smt. Anju Sharma, IAS shared the insights with Students & Startup enthusiasts telling “The HCL Story”.
Date : 25-05-2020
Time : 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Venue : Zoom Platform
Speaker Name : Ajay Chaudhary
About Speaker : Padma Bhushan Shri Ajai Chowdhry,Founder HCL Mr. Ajai Chowdhry, one of the six founder members of HCL began an exciting journey more than four decades ago with a dream to give India its very own microcomputer. The sheer clarity of vision and hard work led to a revolution and laid the foundation for the Indian IT industry, taking India to the league of major economies of the world. Gifted with a pedant sense of entrepreneurship, Mr. Ajai Chowdhry has been enlisted among ‘India's Most Powerful Brand Builders’ and has been adjudged among ‘India Inc’s Most Powerful CEOs’ by The Economic Times.
Story
of Entrepreneurship
54th Startup Sathi Webinar Series organized
by iHub & SSIP held on 25th May 2020
Speakers: Padma Bhushan Shri
Ajai Chowdhry (Founder, HCL)
Moderator: Shri M Nagarajan (IAS,
Director Higher Education)
Dignitaries: Smt. Anju Sharma, IAS
(Principal Secretary, Education Department,Gujarat)
On 25th May 2020 under the Startup
Sathi Webinar Series organized by iHub Gujarat & SSIP, Padma Bhushan Shri
Ajai Chowdhry Ji had a Fireside Chat with Shri M Nagarajan and Smt. Anju
Sharma, IAS shared the insights with Students & Startup enthusiasts telling
“The HCL Story”.
Some
highlights from the session:
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“A is greater than R” has been the formula for HCL since
its inception, where A stands for Aspiration & R stands for Resources.
Meaning, if you aspire to achieve something resources will get their ways
towards you.
-
Concept
becomes more important when you have to create the market and get started with
very few funds and your R&D OR Product Development is yet to be done to
sell out your first few pieces of your product.
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One
should never fear competition, rather competition makes the market larger.
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When
Startups get into an issue with what is happening in a particular time and the
strategy is not working, they need to PIVOT & do something different.
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As
an entrepreneur, you need to keep your eyes and ears open for seeking
opportunities and grabbing them on time.
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To
scale faster, learn how to absorb? Strategies play a key role in scaling up.
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Creating
a brand is an aspect of concerns when you want to create value out of your
solution. Branding gets you best customers, employees, valuation in stock
exchange and more.
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Recipe of
Entrepreneurship:
1.
Clarity
in Vision
2.
Passion
3.
Deep
connect with The Team
4.
Optimism
5.
Zero
Ego.
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Entrepreneur should see the future,
cut through complexities and make the solution as simple as possible, have
intense focus, see possibilities and should not work on multiple ideas
altogether.
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Not
taking this summary into a more detailed manner, we will say to have a look at
the deep session in the link given below to know more interesting facts and
insights >> [https://www.facebook.com/ihubgujarat/videos/243219146772042/]
About iHub Gujarat: http://ihubgujarat.in
