Speeches

NSRCEL’s Women Startup Programme 2018 team had organised a Faculty Development Program (FDP) at Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad for its partners IIM Visakhapatnam, IIM Indore, IIM Nagpur, IIM Udaipur, IIE – Guwahati, IIM Sirmaur, on 17th and 18th March 2018. This program catered to imparting the knowledge about the best practicies of bootcamp and incubation along with insights to mentoring and programme practices followed by the best incubators in the country. This programme, supported by Department of Science and Technology and Goldman Sachs has completed its first stage where more than 1000 submitted ideas are evaluated and shorlisted to around 300 ideas for a bootcamp across these partner locations, starting from 2nd April 2018. 

An interactive and engaging session by Mr Nagaraja Prakasam, a versatile and powerful mentor, was organised by E-Cell, Banasthali Vidyapith. The students were excited to talk about idea, innovation and investments.

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Expert with Global Experience visits Sahyadri to encourage Entrepreneurial activity in the campus
20-Sep-2019

Mr. Nagaraja Prakasam who is a versatile and passionate leader with 27 years of global experience (decade in the USA and a decade in India), lead angel investor, lead 15 deals, invested in 22 start-ups, server\s 13 boards, seen 6 exits 2 write offs, visited the campus on 19th Sep’19.

Morning session was a meet up of local Entrepreneurs Isaac Vas (incoming president of KCCI), Divakar Pai (incoming secretary KCCI), Vathika Pai (Vathika Enterprises), Lionel Arhana (CA) and Dr. Molly Chaudhuri (MSNM Besant Institute), Dr. Vishal Samartha (Director-MBA) along with the Start-up heads of Sahyadri to initiate an Entrepreneurship development forum in Mangaluru region.

During the afternoon session Mr. Nagaraja interacted with the aspiring students on the topic of Entrepreneurship for local development with the advice that as long as the problem statement is valid and the solution original, never give up.