Tie mentor 2013 oct december

Newsletter of TiE Punjab & Chandigarh

OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2013

29 November 2013

TiE Global

TiE SAP Summit

New Trustees to TiE Global Board 2014 Elected On Monday, December 23rd, TiE Global announced the winners of the 2014 Board of Trustee elections.

There were 10 nominees for the 6 open slots on the Board.

Those who got elected to the Board are, Jassi Chadha from New Jersey; AI Kapoor, Boston; Harish Mamtani, Atlanta; PK Gulati, Dubai; Lakshmi Narayanan, Chennai; and Sanjeev Ahuja, UK. Our heartiest congratulations to the new Global Team.

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i E C h a n d i ga r h - P u n j a b C h a p te r organized a TiE-SAP Summit in association with SAP Labs, USA. Suraj Sudhi, Lead for Startup Onboarding Engagement for Asia Pacific and Japan region, conducted the sessions with entrepreneurs and students.

A large number of entrepreneurs with their IT teams including from IDS Infotech, Smartdata, Grazitti Interactive, Access Infotech, Viprasoft, Kinara Group, Winsome, to name just a few, attended the session.

Since last one year, there are about 1000 new startups worldwide who have adopted the system to develop their applications and even in India it is rapidly being adopted.

Approximately 100 startups across the country are already using SAP-HANA for developing solutions for the automobile, healthcare, dairy production, manufacturing, and retail sectors, Suraj Sudhi informed.

Earlier addressing the students at the UMIT, Suraj Sudhi highlighted the advantages of SAP- informed that volume of data being processed HANA platform which analyses big data with has changed dramatically and according to one speed of thought helping organizations make study, digital information in India will grow from 40,000 petabytes to 2.3 million petabytes, necessitating the need for Data Scientists in the country who should have statistical and algorithm skills.

TiE worldwide has partnered with SAP to help the entrepreneurs learn the fundamentals of working on this new platform HANA, to build applications that are very fast and perform analytics quickly, informed Alok Ramsisaria, Secretary, TiE Chandigarh-Punjab.

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quick decision as well as serve their customers in much more effective way.

Mr. S.K. Chadha, Director Placement Cell, PU (right) presenting a memento to Mr. Suraj Sudhi, SAP Representative.

TiE Chandigarh-Punjab would be organising a comprehensive training programme in February, Alok informed.

14th December 2013 TiE-Hard team members have been meeting informally at each other homes

TiE Member Connect

over dinner to plan and discuss their future strategies to strengthen the eco-system for startups.

Besides the mentoring sessions being conducted by various members on one-to-one basis with the new entrepreneurs, they have been addressing the students at various educational institutions too to inculcate the spirit of entrepreneurship in them.

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iE Chandigarh Chapter with the inclusion of two new Associate Directors decided to organise an interface between all members including Charter Members, Associate Members and members of the Governing Council of the Chapter. The event was aptly named, TiE Member Connect which was organised at Chandigarh Golf Club on 14th December 2013. The agenda of this Member Connect was to have meaningful interaction with the members, receive ideas and suggestions for strengthening TIE Chandigarh and adding value for its members.

This event was a grand success and was attended by almost all TiE members with stalwarts like Bharat Ratna recipient Mr. Chandra Mohan, Mr. Ghai, CEO of santabanta.com, Mr. B.S. Sawhney, Vice President of Nectar Life Sciences, Dr. A.S. Marwaha of UIAMS, Panjab University, and Mr. Chadha, Director Placement of Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Our special thanks to Godrej Properties for hosting the event.

On 8th October 2013 TiE Hard team met at the residence of TiE charter member Anuj Aggarwal of Altruist Technologies in Panchkula.

Current industry trends and action needed to foster entrepreneurship in the region were discussed.

TiE Chandigarh Team Shines at

TiECon 2013, Delhi TiE Chandigarh members had a sizable and effective presence at the TiECON in Delhi.

A special TiE Chandigarh Lounge was created where the startups from Chandigarh had the opportunity to interact with the TiE members from all over the country.

Those who participated included Munish Johar, Ravi Bhargav, Shobit Gupta, Prabhjit Gill, Manu Bhandari, Sumeer Walia, Ekant Agarwal, and Sandeep Gandotra.

They work HARD, they party HARD... they are TiE HARD.

Here’s the smiling TiE Chandigarh Team with our Guests. (Left) Mr. Sidhharth Roy Kapoor, Managing Director of UTV and (right) Ms. Vandana Luthra, Managing Director of VLCC, who visited the Chandigarh Lounge and interacted.

9th October 2013

TiE Chandigarh GC Meet TiE Chandigarh had its GC Meet at the UT Guest house under the leadership of President Partap Aggarwal, to review the activities and prepared the plans for more engagement with the startups, budding entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in the ecosystem.

Under the inspiration of Mr.Mahavir Partap at the annual Retreat in Mussoorie, TiE Chandigarh initiated the concept of TiE BBB. Since then we have organised nine successful BBBs with diverse group of business people, professionals, and experts.

In the last quarter of 2013, TiE members especially the new startups benefitted from these interactions over breakfast.

25th October 2013

Raising Finance Mr. Venkataraman, Vice President of Business Incubation and Acceleration program at the University of Petroleum and Energy studies and Mr. Sumeer Guglani, CEO at The Morpheus addressed young entrepreneurs of the region on how to raise finance. This session was conducted at UT Guest House, Chandigarh and was moderated by Mr. Sumeer Walia, Executive Director, TiE Chandigarh.

BBB 30th October Mr. K. Paul Singh, Co-Founder and Chairman of InterCentrus Global Data Centres, Inc.USA on ‘Empowering Your Team and Increasing Productivity’ with TiE Charter Member Mr. Hridesh Madan, CEO, Bulls Eye, as Moderator

BBB 6th December

8th November 2013

Mrs. Chandan Deep Kaur, Co-Founder, Access Infotech on ‘Vendor Management & Customer Retention’

E-Cell at UIAMS BBB 20th December Ms. Sunali Aggarwal, CEO, Beon Des Tech Systems on ‘Crafting Business with Creativity’, and C.J. Singh, CEO, CorePR, as session moderator.

WINNERS Rishabh Ohri, Mayank Aggarwal, Anantika Nautiyal, Jiwandeep Singh Ghai, TPO UIAMS and Damanpreet Kaur at the E-Cell of UIAMS at their campus in Panjab University.

Munish Jauhar to be part of World Economic Forum Hub Our Charter member and CEO of GrayCell Technology Exports, Munish Jauhar has been selected as the Founding Curator for the Chandigarh Hub in India of the World Economic Forum's prestigious Global Shapers Community.

Our heartiest felicitations to him.

Munish Jauhar also deserves our deepest appreciation for being honoured by the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), during the mega IT conclave, Destination IT@North 2013, at CII, with the STPI “Jewel of the Crown� Award for the Best Socially Active Unit, on 20th November.

Executive Team @ TiE Chandigarh

Mentoring Clinic Apply to Benefit To nurturing entrepreneurship in the region, TIE Chandigarh and Punjab Chapter has started organising Mentoring Clinics.

If you are in need of a mentor or you are facing any kind of challenge in your business, just send an email to us mentoring@tiechandigarh.org, so that a meeting can be organised with the mentors.

A successful session on Mentoring Clinic was held at GrayCell Technologies, where its Founder/CEO, Mr. Munish Jauhar, and Mr. Vishal Chalana, Co-Founder, Winshuttle, mentored the companies who had enrolled in the Mentoring Clinics.

The second session will be held in January 2014.

15 October 2013

Design Thinking

Bon Voyage to Sumeer Walia Sumeer Walia, Executive Director, TiE Chandigarh had to bid us farewell as he became another success story for TiE, having decided to venture into his own enterprise as a Cruise specialist. Thanks to the mentoring by some of our own Charter members he has successfully chartered his own career path as Founder CEO of Cruise Rover. We wish him all success in life.

Welcome to Ekant and Harpreet Our New Associate Directors Ekant Aggarwal is a lawyer by profession with masters in management, who practised law in the District Court, and Panjab & Haryana High Court, before entering the corporate world, as Head of Legal and HR for a leading chain of Restaurants.

Design Thinking: Desirable, Feasible and Viable was the topic of highly interactive session at Net Solutions by Himanshu Khanna, Founder Designer at Sparklin, Angad Kingra, former Head of Design at Zomato, and Nishant Jain, CEO, Design for Use. After opening remarks by Sameer Jain, CEO of Net Solutions, and Avinash Raghava, Fellow, iSPIRIT, the trio made lively presentations and shared case studies how design helped in enhancing user experience, and added value to the product and the organisation.

TiE Sponsors & Supporters Harpreet Minhas is Masters in Marketing & IT with six years of industry experience having worked with naukri.com, Uno Infotech, Stands Academy and National Healthcare Services (NHS), London. She is also an ORACLE Certified professional.

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