Startup Xperts at the SMB Connect, Bangalore

19 Feb 2016: SMB Connect with its mission to cover 30 cities held their conference at Taj Vivanta, Bangalore, on 19-Feb. This provides a platform to connect small business owners, mentors, experts, all in one place. Like earlier events, Shyam Sekar, Founder and Chief mentor at Startup Xperts was requested to act as a moderator for a panel discussion. Shyam, moderated the event, and had panelists including Narayan, CEO Wandertrails, a travel startup; Lakshman, CEO Margosa Health, a silicon valley entrepreneur; and Mithun, VP iD Fresh.
Shyam shared, “I wanted to give the crowd some insights on marketing, especially digital marketing, since this is something the small business owners, startups, cannot afford to miss or ignore. The questions that usually comes from the crowd were shared with the panelists, and each of them approached from various perspectives and shared their valuable experiences with audience.” The panel discussion was lively and had a lot of insights for the entrepreneurs, which can be leveraged in their businesses.

Startup India Standup India session by Startup Xperts

28 Jan 2016

Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust, BYST – CII, organized South Chapter meeting on 28-Jan 2016 at the CII, Guindy office. This is a meeting of Chennai mentors with entrepreneurs also present for the meeting

BYST had requested Shyam Sekar S, Founder and Chief Mentor of Startup Xperts Business Consulting Pvt. Ltd. to present a session on the trending topic ‘Startup India – Standup India’. Shyam addressed the event and provided interesting inputs and insights about the Startup India Standup India program.

Shyam elaborated, “there is a greater need in India, to create many million jobs and that means so many entrepreneurs need to be created in order to achieve this bigger objective. Startup does not mean that it is just about information technology”.

Shyam highlighted the Central Government’s Startup India Standup India initiative of what types of companies may be covered under this Startup India initiative. Further he said, “The Government is considering various aspects including self certification for the startup companies for labour/environmental (green) laws; separate funding mechanism for student entrepreneurs, relaxed norms for Govt. tenders, tax exemption for about 3 years for startups with innovation/technology value add, financial incentives, and also plan for startup fests to connect Indian startups to facilitate international tie-ups, etc.”

The session was well received and appreciated by both the South Chapter mentor network and also the entrepreneurs.

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Keynote session at the India Electronics Week, Bangalore

14 Jan 2016: Electronics for You (EFY) group organized their first major event at Bangalore, ‘India Electronics Week’ the expo cum conference. The event was held in Bangalore from 11-Jan to 13-Jan. Shyam Sekar S, Founder, Chief mentor of Startup Xperts was invited to deliver a key note address on their opening session ‘Get Funded’. This session was attended by many entrepreneurs and also investors. The speech was well received both by (aspiring) entrepreneurs, and also the investor community as a whole. Shyam said, “this probably is one of the biggest electronics event here, and interestingly had IOT (Internet of things) theme on day-2. With so many thousands of visitors coming in every day at the BIEC venue for this event, this provides a bigger platform for companies to launch products and also for entrepreneurs to get the relevant exposure too.”

How Startup Xperts helps startups to excel in business

23 Dec 2015

Every startup begins their journey with an ambition of hi-growth but all startups cannot penetrate into target markets and they face issues like flat sales, negative or slow growth, dipping revenue, unable to differentiate and win customers, etc. Those hi-growth aspirant entrepreneurs may have limited resources but still they wish to build a successful enterprise in a short period of time. Startup Xperts works on all these areas ensuring that all the units are aligned and work together, to ensure profitable growth. Even hiring a full-time CMO could be unaffordable for most startups; soStartup Xperts act as virtual CMO, CxO for other startups, and will be responsible for expanding their business opportunities and revenue potential. “ Having the right strategy, driven by right people, and executing at the right time, with all units like strategy, marketing, sales, and operations in great alignment, only can create bigger, positive impact.” feels Startup Xperts , an expert in building businesses.

Startup Xperts’ founder Mr Shyam Sekar S returned back to India from US in 2012, to pursue his passion of building entrepreneurs in India. He formed Startup Xperts in 2013 and in 2014 Startup Xperts took a step further to be Startup Xperts Business Consulting Pvt. Ltd. Headquartered in Chennai and having presence in Bangalore, his business growth consulting firm Startup Xperts helps startups as well as SMEs to step up, and accelerate their revenue growth. As a business builder, Startup Xperts has expanded right from business advisory to full-scale execution of strategies including marketing and sales functions. It has set up Digital marketing team to spearhead businesses, providing clients with major ammunition that helps them to differentiate, win deals (even with premium pricing). The company also act as advisor, leadership coach with $billion multinational companies of the US as well as India. Recently they have also set up ‘Board of Entrepreneurs’ a startup bootcamp / workshop for budding entrepreneurs, founders, in providing them a hands-on approach to build their business. The company generates it revenue through flexible revenue generation models that include Retainer fee, success fee, Services fee for smart digital marketing (for B2B and B2C both) and Project fee for coaching, mentoring for ground breaking innovation, and execution.

The Maverick behind the Success of Startup Xperts

Mr Shyam Sekar S is the founder, Chief Mentor and Strategist of the company. Driven by passion to build entrepreneurial ecosystem, Mr Shyam Sekar S founded Startup Xperts , who brings over 22 years of experience in working with many corporate, multinationals, startups and about 15 yrs of expertise in international business. He has spearheaded global marketing and sales initiatives building many successful enterprises. Having lived sometime in the US, finally he returned back in 2012 to pursue his passion of building entrepreneurs in India. He also co founded Bangalore based Febler, a startup that is seen as Twitter of audio.

Shyam has BE (NIT, REC), MBA, and has also successfully completed Executive Management Program from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. He has traveled to about 25 countries on business, and expanded opportunities across geographies.

Shyam Sekar, has been a part of other various national level startup initiatives. He is a mentor with Startup Weekend, Chennai (a Seattle based global initiative) and Advisor, Mentor of SMB Connect initiative, New Delhi. Apart from mentoring IIT-Kharagpur’s entrepreneurship initiatives Empressario, he is a member of South Chapter and Mentor with BYST, CII; he also contributes column and articles in business magazines. He has been a part of various events, conferences, on Digital marketing, SMB connect, Startup Grind, educational institutions, and a key speaker for NASSCOM Product forums/ events.

We understand that no one-size-fits-all approach works. So smart, effective, winning strategies are implemented to step up your revenue growth. What worked well 3 or 5 years back, may not work today. It is all about picking the right strategies, doing right things, and pursue with finesse, to reach your set objectives.” Startup Xperts said.

“ It is all about execution and Startup Xperts walks with you that extra mile in not just devising these strategies, but also executes those plans, tasks, along with you; review and monitor, to ensure that goals are achieved.” they added.

With the passion to build 100 successful enterprises by 2020, the company would also like to expand their association with at least another 1000 aspiring entrepreneurs, through coaching, mentoring, startup bootcamp/workshop models and through BoE (Board of Entrepreneurs) initiative. Their other plans include creating ‘intrapreneurs’ within large enterprises to further fuel our ecosystem and being involved in various social entrepreneurship initiatives to make millions of life better. Startup Xperts aspires to work with funders (seed, angel investors or VC) in building their investee companies, and also to help them invest in right ideas/entities that have a well thought through business model. It also plans to work with Government, where necessary, to facilitate creation of entrepreneurship ecosystem that can provide additional support to further fuel Indian economy. For the betterment of startups and to enable them to expand business opportunities, Startup Xperts intends to join hand with VCs.

“This article has Published in “The CEO magazine”

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Startup Xperts invited for keynote session by NASSCOM Product Forum, Calicut

5 Dec 2015

NASSCOM Product Forum invited Startup Xperts to deliver a single speaker session at Calicut on 30-Nov 2015. This is part of NASSCOM’s initiative to address various emerging and small, medium enterprises and bring them under their Product Forum platform across India. Their Kerala chapter had been keen to get a session delivered at Calicut.

The topic was on ‘Winning strategies to expand your enterprise’. This session was aimed at every entrepreneur, CxOs, and the objective was to provide ideas in revitalizing their thought process, gain insights on smart techniques to winning strategies that could help accelerate their revenue, growth and profitability.

This was organized at the Cyberpark, Calicut. The venue was state of the art IT park in Calicut and CyberPark is a landmark by itself. The CEO of CyberPark, Mr Ajith Kumar Pillai introduced Shyam Sekar S, Chief Mentor and Chief Growth Officer at Startup Xperts Business Consulting Pvt. Ltd. to the forum. Mr Ajith, during the introductory speech mentioned about the facilities of CyberPark at Calicut and highlighted the importance of building the skill, and necessary technologies to spearhead Kerala’s growth in the IT sector. Calicut has a number of small, medium businesses, and so presents opportunities for growth.

NASSCOM was represented by Mr Sujith Unni who had taken pains in organizing this event in association with CyberPark, Calicut, Cafit, and Kerala Startup Mission.

Mr Shyam Sekar delivered a near 2-hour session addressing various entrepreneurs, CxOs, marketing and sales heads of emerging enterprises. He quoted, “Ideas can be dime and dozen, but how many of these ideas turn successful? It’s all about execution. This means that your business needs to break the shackle and get to faster growth phase through various ingredients like, effective leadership, building a core team, business strategies in alignment with the market, smart marketing, smart sales, and on-boarding startup/growth advisors”.

The event was well attended, and interestingly this has been in a planning phase over last few months and finally able to roll out successfully by end of November. Mr Shyam thanked Mr Ajith Pillai and Mr Sujith for having invited him, and also in organizing this event in a very professional way. Startup Xperts is glad to be part of this NASSCOM’s initiative in building our startup ecosystem.

Other coverage on the above event:

  1. Kerala IT News – http://keralaitnews.com/5506/cyberpark-kozhikode-hosts-nasscom-product-forum-for-startups
  2. News Experts – http://newsexperts.in/2015/12/01/cyberpark-hosts-nasscom-product-forum-for-startups/

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