Speeches

NSRCEL IIMB. Heart warming interacting/listening to 62 amazing women entrepreneurs at Vizag. From PhD to diplomas, 21 to 55 years, swanky USA accent to pitching in Telugu, humble background to HNI families, home makers to scientists, millet food to machine learning, from all over 2 states. Few of them selected to be part of 100 WE from rest of India. More to women power! Nobody can set expiry dates of women dream. Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam #WomenStartupProgramme2018

“Why create a single enterprise worth thousand crores….why not a thousand enterprises worth a single crore ?”…..the defining philosophy of our theory of change for positively transforming the craft sector by creating equitable value across stakeholders.
The key component of the narrative at ‘The Craft Catapult’ Delhi Roundtable Meet yesterday led by Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship‘s Startup Oasis where the dialogue panned ground realities, situations, and concerns over the product- market fit, need for appropriate and timely design intervention, effectively countering competition, particularly from the factory made, artisan and stakeholder incomes, long gestation periods and resultant irregular cash flows, craftspeople motivation and orientations, use of technology to maximize process efficiency, ‘one of a kind’ vs ‘volume’ production
There was plenty of cross-learning and education geared towards evolving an ecosystem for creating, incubating, nurturing and accelerating, ethical, eco-friendly, value-oriented businesses by startups working in the craft environment.