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Startup Xperts successfully conducted 1-day Startup Boot Camp to early stage startups and aspiring entrepreneurs in Chennai, on Sat, 19-Jan 2019.  Mr Suneel of Mentor Ally, partner of Startup Xperts, organized this startup boot camp.

The event also had a session on great Entrepreneurship Insights from Mr Raghuvir Krishnan, Founder, Qualstra Consulting and an informative session on Funding from Mr Chandrashekar, Founder, Anova Corporate Services.

Mr Shyam Sekar, Founder and Chief Mentor of Startup Xperts, conducted the boot camp that covered topics right from how to shortlist and validate ideas, case studies examples, and finally covering the famous Business Model Canvas (BMC).  Participants were involved in activities in this hands-on workshop and they had prepared sample business model canvas towards the end of the session.  Finally, participants were issued certificates for successfully attending this 1-day startup boot camp.  Mr Shyam quoted, “This startup bootcamp vision is part of the knowledge sharing initiative of Board of Entrepreneurs, a unit of Startup Xperts! Preparing BMC takes time and participants did a wonderful job of understanding the concepts quickly to build a business model by the evening itself, speaks volumes of their involvement and commitment to learn. Happy to have coached them and hope they will take their startup ideas to the next level, after thisstartup bootcamp”. 

Mr Shyam also thanked Animator for support provided for the excellent venue in conducting this event!

Startup Xperts and Rotary Club of Chennai Green City RI3232 launched the flagship LEAP Digital Marketer Programme.  This program is aimed to impart the right skills and help expand employment opportunities for those who has interest in the field of digital marketing. 

The Digital Marketer program was inaugurated by the District Vocational Services Director Mr Ganesan, the President Mr Manohar, Vocational Services Director Mr Shyam Sekar (Founder & CEO of Startup Xperts), and the Club Trainer Mr SN Balasubramanian. 

While inaugurating Mr Ganesan heartily appreciated this flagship initiative as this field has tremendous potential and trending ones.

 Mr Shyam explained as to how digital marketing can help in their employment, and as to how it can help businesses, entrepreneurs, to create brand, reach customers, expand business in the quickest time.

This program is provided absolutely FREE of cost which otherwise could be upwards of Rs 30,000 and provides hands-on training on various aspects of digital marketing for a period of 3 months.  This programwas widely appreciated for its vision, focus, the cause and the impact it can create over time. 

Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute(EDII) Tamil Nadu conducted pitch- in ideas session to over 40 entrepreneurs & aspiring one.

Participants under went coaching on how to prepare business plans and pitching it to right investors for fund raising!

A – Z of Startup funding at e-Hotel, Chennai on 10th jan 2019. This was to facilitate business owners to become part of startup ecosystem – in building startups and also to invest in the startup community.

It started with an Expert Talk by Shyam Sekar S, Founder and Chief Mentor at Startup Xperts.  Shyam unraveled the details as to how to build startup ecosystem and how investors can support the startups in taking things forward to the next level.  It was very well appreciated by the business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. 

There was a Panel Discussion on Decoding Startup Funding, which had esteemed panelists, Mr Sridharan Sivan, Founder & Chairman at S10 Healthcare Solutions and Mr Arul Murugan, CEO of Snackexperts.  This panel discussion was moderated by Mr Shyam Sekar S of Startup Xperts.  This was enlightening the audience to understand these startup founders journey from different perspectives and encouraged the audience to explore options of investing in the startup ecosystem. 

The Talk Big Ideas organized this interesting panel discussion as to how small businesses can go digital.

Panelists were Shyam Sekar S, Chief Mentor and Strategist, Startup Xperts

Mathivanan Rajendran, Theater Artist & Content Factory…

Vinodh Chander, Founder – ChuChu TV

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