Mr. Ullas Kamat CEO of I create India.
Mr. Ullas Kamat he his CEO of I create India. He came as a guest speaker to our Foundation. In that class he shared his experience in his entire entrepreneurial journey, the way teaching is very nice professional and very effectually, he didn’t follow the slides first he went through our minds; His is teach also to us how we understand a market and how we negation to market. He took that whole class only through the activities and with his teaching. He understands our knowledge capacity regarding entrepreneur. Then he explained about his subject. We came to know about that execution, spouse if you are opening an enterprise how the planning should be, what the strategy are, skills to be used to build a enterprise. One lesson I came to know from him that hard work doesn’t giving any meaning but work hard is unique. That means understand the work before doing. The marketing execution he did with practically, we acted as buyer & seller that were really help us to understand the customer mindset and market strategy and I learnt about the bargaining and negotiation.
It is helps us to individually start a business, generate the idea and indentifies the peace. Business action plans are • Buy low • Sell high • Satisfy customer • Keep records These are the skills & knowledge I got from Ullas Kamat session. In my life this would be help to improve my skills in market sector.
Mr. Ayyappa Masagi (Water Literacy Foundation)
Mr. Ayyappa Masagi (Water Literacy Foundation)
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we had a guest speaker lecturer on 22nd April from Mr. Ayyappa Masagi CEO of Water literacy foundation. He is a very talented person, he born at one small village then he studied Civil Engineer .After his education he worked as civil engineer for 23 years. Later he wanted to work in his land as well as some experiment but his parents not allowed him to do those things in his own land. He left his job he was scolded for leaving the job, but he never thinks about it. He did a lot of experiment where he got success and popularity with many awards. His presentation and the technique to increase the underground water were very low-cost and effective ones. He has written book which explains the techniques and the process to do also he is very hard worker. He did so many experiments but still he is very eager to research new things in water conservation.
He is a great and good experience person in government department, he is a ex IPS officer but after his job he is very interesting in NGO sector. The session was gives me more open view about constitution, because as he is know about our present situation and also he know what wrote in our Indian constitution. Human rights and preamble of Indian constitution. As per his opinion Government also working for people aspects and also the NGO’s are doing same but why still some of the underprivileged places are not getting basic facilities. In Chamanlal session I get clear about our doubt like he told that some of the NGO’s are working from many years in same place only but they are not changing or expanding their works to other places. I think this was also a reason that government projects are not implementing correctly. Coming to management & leadership I got very clear idea that management is only the job that manage correctly but leader have to manage as well as work have to done.
NGO’s should be accountable not only for funding agency but also for community.
As in my opinion this session was best one. As he explained all about constitution, Management, administration and about NGO’s. He takes very wide topic, and explained also very well. I like most his presentation way, his stiffness, high pitch speaking this are the things attracted me most. I have to improve those skills in my life.
We were very lucky to have the seminar of the Ex Commissioner of HDMC, Hubli, Mr. Manivannan.he is government officer in his duty time very strict and honest person , he did so many good work in Hubli and other work place. According to him as a government servant please be honest and polite do something to society also be ready to work anywhere. It was our first guest speaker session in our fellowship also it was just two days before cohort 3 fellows would graduate .Mr. Manivannan, in his seminar he discussed about what are the big problems now a day’s our India is facing , then we told “Actions speaks louder than words”. It mean do the work please don’t tell anything about your work automatically your work will showed what you did. He focused on discussing with fellows regarding the problems that India is facing. Fellows listed down various issues like population, corruption, poverty, etc and came up with solutions for addressing the same. It was a very interesting discussion and as conclusion Mr. Manivannan cited lack of information as the root cause for all problems. By “information” he meant “Knowledge regarding a specific issue or situation that has been gathered or received through communication; news or any kind of media”. He said, “Information serves as a powerful tool to solve problems and issues and that it should spread like wildfire. Only then will the mass awaken and problems subside in the country.” Totally he forced and motivated to us to do something to our society without expecting anything.
Mr.Rob John
The third Speaker for the season was Mr. Rob John, an independent consultant from UK who is driven by mission of developing venture philanthropy thought ASIA. His views on venture philanthropy were insightful to all the fellows. He explained the relationship between social entrepreneurship and venture philanthropy by comparing it with entrepreneurship and venture capital. He put in plain words that “venture philanthropy is a blend of capital and business advice to help organizations achieve their ambitions for growth and development”. He made clear to fellows that Venture philanthropy looks for people who are ambitious and it invests on the organization as a whole and not on the basis of their project. Through the DNA model he explained that while entrepreneurs depend on venture capital, social entrepreneurs depend on venture philanthropy. He stated that it takes many different kinds of players to create sustainable, well-run commercial or social organizations. Not everyone is an entrepreneur. Nor should they be.
He is retired professor of law college. he also served Vivekananda institute of leadership development. Mysore. At present he is working with number of professional courses in Karnataka. It was mind-blowing session for us. really he didn’t talk about entrepreneurship or how to develop those characteristics. But he mentioned how should be an entrepreneur. While starting session, he asked are you ready? we usually say yes. But he objected that don’t be ready for anything. It shows or indicates that you are pre conceptual for the session.we expect some limited things or limit our expectations to some extend. It is nothing but creating safe zone for our self.
They gave a power full meaning First day he explained “ORGANISE” He expand it and explained about that. O stands for Outlook, R- responsibility, G-gain, A-ability, N- Novelty, S – spiritual, The half day session was all about that. “Organizing is nothing but humanizing”. as an entrepreneur we have to organize people or their capability and resource. Responsibility is nothing but commitment towards work which we do. If we are working for out boss or promotion it is impossible to get satisfaction in life.
Gain it doesn’t mean that we need to gain something. we have to put effort that others we have to make capable that they can gain something and they remember us for ever. like this it was a was topic to understand and grasp it.
Second day we had a brain storming session by him, only it was our opportunity to have them for two-day as a guest speaker. Fear was the discussion topic. Fear is nothing but “False expectation apprehended realities” its nothing but escaping from the reality. not ready to face problems. by doing like this we are making our self sadist .As a trainer we have to make people fearless, help them to realize their capacity and make them independent. It really made me to understand why I fear what should I do to get out of this problem? really am very thankful to him.
And they also told to us create new We are budding entrepreneur we don’t compete with others but we creat some new things in our organization .
He is founder of Samarthanam NGO which is working for Physically challenged people. According to him taking more care of that person and discriminating him/her are both same, giving them comport.“Serving isolation keep them away from main stream”. he was inspired by his father he always use to say “Knowledge is Power” So he struggled a lot to give him an academic education which all normal children get. He has completed his M. Phil from Bangalore university. while talking he told that disables are denied, they have opportunity to address the demand and need of this community
By this vision he started his organization in 1996 February 26. they convinced colleges to admit disable people to get education.later they construed boys and girl hostel, and exclusive education program.the first blind accountant was the result of his effort. they have cultural team which perform at international level. His aim is that the disable people also start to contribute to Tax of the country.
Samarthanam believes in creating opportunity. at present they are implementing this. recently they have invigorated Call center for disables. only they will work. he say we have to create opportunity to our self and to others. It was really surprising to see that how much they creative and making them selves dependent. He says that if we are not using your any part of body then it is waste.
Mr. Tikot is CEO for Vidya Poshak. His full name is Mr. Raghvendra, he is from small village name called Tikot near Bijapur. He worked as professor for 28 years in hubli Dharwad and in chikkodi. Small incident made him to take imitative and work for poor students. He shared his experience of starting Vidya Poshak. while talking he told that what are the quality should entrepreneur have. Innovativeness is a small thing which happens in small situations. some time we were not able to identify them. to start an organization we should have skill or experience in development sector If we start to struggle to become number 1. it will divert your concentrate from your goal and achievement. by this we have more chance to become a failure. So if we build out own brand. doing good activities which give an identification by itself. those activities will introduce you, you no need to;
Networking plays an important role in building organization.Apart from this they explained how Vidya Poshak is working. It is very honest and smart working NGO which is focusing on the community which was not focused by others. It make them to stand. Acoording to him an entrepreneur should come up with that type of ideas. Really it his session made to think of my future like him, I need to commit..
It was great session for all of us. As a budding entrepreneur we need this type of reflections. He is a person who started his social entrepreneurship in his 26th age. He shared his experience of 60 years. He emphasis that money is very important to start any type of business. His statement were very much strong these were not from any book only experienced can say those. He explained about his enterprise which is working with local community, in Eco tourism. ( Open Africa ) by this the people are getting income which is helping them to lead their life. he used the word “guts” He told that entrepreneur should have guts to work without profit in starting couple of years.
While talking we can easily observe his disciple. It was his father Idea, he worked on it and he told that ” follow your heart and dream to make your self success.
N.M.Biradar
We had a Guest speaker on 29th April. by name Mr, N.M.Birader. He had completed his Bachelors in commerce and M.Phil. As well as he gone under a IAS coaching in Bangalore. He didn’t pass that exam. Later he came back to his native and started his own Chalukya coaching center for the people who are facing exams for High school and Primary school teacher. On that time he had hut to tack class, 20 rented plastic chairs and 7 students with 2500 investment. For 4 to 5 years he didn’t get any profit from his investment, later he was identified and selected on the base of his performance because whom he taught for 4 to 5 years those were selected for Government job in hug number. He worked as accountant but he was not satisfied he left his job also. came to his institution.
Right now his annual income is 2.5 caror rupees with 120 staff . Coaching for IAS, KAS ,High school, Primary school teacher examinations, Chalukya publication, 5 science college, every year 9000 students were getting coaching. One unique thing is Biradar is paying 80% of his income as teachers salary.
In his interaction he shared that for his institution quality is important not income. He never saw it as business. It was his passion and now also. He said “when you are moving forward don’t look back after reaching your destiny don’t forget to look back. ” i was able to see his commitment and bounding which he had towards his work. Most of his students getting appointed. he shared his experience as well as his idea about to run the existing institution. I learned that as an entrepreneur we never lose our hope. Our effort and passion will show it result one day.
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