BITS Pilani workshop - Challenges in Scalability & Globalization for a startup
I was invited as a speaker to Conquest2007, an entrepreneurship focused event at BITS Pilani, one of India’s top engineering schools. I was part of the session on ‘Challenges in Globalisation and Scalability for a startup‘. My talk centered on the slideshare experience and the kind of challenges we are facing as we scale up. The audience consisted of engineering students, faculty members, participants from industry, venture capital firms etc. It was a great experience to be back amongst engineering students and one cannot help feeling nostalgic about your own educational institution. The event was organised by CELBITS, the entrepreneurial club at BITS and was sponsored by SAP.
Here are the slides for my talk shared via slideshare.
Other speakers at the workshop included Ashmeet Sidana from Foundation Capital (a Silicon Valley VC firm), Manish Vij from Quasar Media and Kunwar Sachdev, CEO of Su-Kum (the invertor company).
Also take a minute to go through a few snaps that I clicked using my camera phone. The photographic quality is not great, so bear with me on this.
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Hey Amit!
So cool to find you blogging about Conquest 2007. We would love to have you blogging on E factor[http://efactor.blogspot.com] as well.I have sent you an invite. Looking forward to seeing you blog on E factor
Seems like people at bits pilani got to learn a lot from amit
Here’s a related article you’d like to read http://sramanamitra.com/blog/692
Hi Amit,
I learned a lot from talking to you and from your talk. Was amazing having you in Pilani! Hope to see you here again soon!
Chinmay and me are working hard on pulling off go.bble.us before our finals gobble us
Rachit, Abhishek
I enjoyed the BITS experience as well…
I shall accept the invitation for blogging on your site in a day or two…have been running very occupied the last few days…
amit
The issues dealt at conquest2007 are really what the students of engineering community need to look at. The passing out students don’t think about wehere they will be after 10 years. they (all any branch) are just happy to get into any of the software giants of India. the lack of scalability and gloalised applicability in the indian products is due to thinking process (or may be in the training institutes mine).
Keshav,
thanks for dropping by; surely you know more about engg students that I do.
Btw, do you have a blog; if not, why not start one.
amit
Hi Amit,
I guess i know you from yr pre-mba days ..godrej mhe. Well yr blog is pretty informative for die hard non-techies like me..am with a broadcast network these days.
Plan to start blogging soon..
param
Hi amit I am not a regular blogger, there is a lot of information i like to share like the recent demonstration by Ethical hacker Ankit Fadia about the ethical and non-ethical hacking and career in network security at my institute. Let me know how to send it to you
Hi Amit,
It was interesting to read about this event..Globalization and especially its relevance to SME’s and Start-ups is something that my firm Qiu-inc.com focuses on.
Its easy to expand internationally once you have scale a mature product and considerable amount of sales and marketing $$$. Not quite the case with most of the smaller and aspiring companies.
Thanks and Regards,
Sandeep.
Hey Amit,
I was hoping to hear your speech in the slidecast, but seem to hear someone talking about eating a pizza. Did I miss something?
-Ashutosh
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