The Envision Cell-Entrepreneurship and Industry Relations Cell of IIM Bodh Gaya successfully conducted the second edition of their “Entrepreneurial Talk Series” on the 21st of August, 2021 on the occasion of “World Entrepreneurs Day”. The event was attended by some of the prominent industry leaders and a big lot of enthusiastic students from the institute.
Mr. Sudarshan Motwani, CEO & Founder, BookMyForex; Mr. Manish Kumar, Founder, Farms & Farmers; and Ms. Manisha Sharaf, CRO & Founder, SuperProcure took the stage with their insightful thoughts and encouraged the students to own up to their entrepreneurial idea.
The event began with Dr. Vinita Sahay, Director, IIM Bodhgaya, giving a warm and welcoming address to the chief guests, faculties, and students. She emphasized the importance of entrepreneurship and the need for change in the institute from being the centre of job-seekers to being the centre of job-creators. Consumer behavior is getting changed and there are a plethora of opportunities. She gave an example of an alumnus of the institution who had a blueprint of an idea and saw the venture as an opportunity.
Then the stage was handed over to the first speaker Mr. Sudarshan Motwani who gave his valuable insights and quoting- "An entrepreneur is one who observes his environment and the market and asks for the problems that need to be solved followed with how and why". He also suggested that for this one also has to recognize whether the solution is acceptable and adaptable by the market. He further said that a businessman is one who runs a general business but an entrepreneur is one who brings logic to the business idea. He mentioned his journey, the ups, and downs he faced and concluded by saying that not all entrepreneurial ideas are a success, some might fail but only those who will become successful, who learn from their mistakes.
The second speaker for the day was Mr. Manish Kumar, who shared his experience of starting an organization from scratch with an interactive presentation. He emphasized the fact that the process might be lengthy from finding a suitable partner to an angel investor but if one has any unique idea then any startup can be successful. According to him, there is a need for educated and well-informed people in the field of agriculture as there is a lot of potential for future growth in the sector but with them, it might take a lot of time. At this point, the new logo for the incubation center was also unveiled.
At last, Ms. Manisha Sharaf also shared glimpses of her journey of making procure to super an organisation providing only transportation solution to a saas platform which enabled people to take help from people with high technical knowledge to provide the best of the services to their consumers. She concluded by saying that this is the correct time for women to become entrepreneurs as the government policies and environment is in favor of it.
Such events are really encouraging for students to realize their ideas and stand out from the crowd. One such inspiring example is of Arindam Bera, MBA 07 batch who started the initiative by the name Bera Industries (OPC) Pvt Ltd, very recently in 2018. The initiative holds recognition as India’s top 500 startups 2021 by CNBC Awaaz &BSE (SME). His initiative is about handicraft designing and development and employs as many as around fifteen tribal people regularly. There is another such story from the senior batch, an innovative initiative started by Gokulnath R. from MBA 06 batch. The initiative goes by the name of IGNITED MINDS and was started by the PSG TECH alumni under the guidance of faculty members from PSG College of Technology Robotics Department, Coimbatore. Through their initiative, they are trying to help a large community of students, educational institutions, and others in the same industry in the area of robotics, artificial learning, and STEM learning.
With this, the Envision cell wrapped up their event for the day.