KJ SIMSR Horizon Dec - 2014 issue Dec 2014 | Page 73

ALMA MATER

ENLIGHTENEUS
Entrepreneurship is not a sprint but it's a
marathon.
‘Enlighteneus'- a 2 day entrepreneurial workshop
was organized for all budding entrepreneurs in K J
Somaiya on 26th and 27th of July, 2014 by ALCOM
in association with Somiya Vidyavihar. On the first
day of the workshop, we had with us, two of our
esteemed SIMSR alumni Mr. Vikram Bhatt and
Mrs. Gurdip Wadhwa Sial.
The workshop began with Dr. Ailawadi, Director of
K J SIMSR, speaking on how the strengths
possessed by our alumni can always be leveraged
for the benefit of future students. Prof. Bhushan
Dewan, Provost of Somaiya Vidyavihar introduced
the students to the 6 E's of entrepreneurship
namely Employment, Economic Development,
Empowerment, Equality, Eco system & Excellence.
After the introduction and warm welcome, it was
the time for our alumni to share their experiences.
Our alumnus, Ms. Gurdip Wadhwa Sial, founder
and owner of G-Corp Media with over 12 years' of
industry experience, talked of how she converted
her hobby of producing creative audio content to
full-time profession by starting her own firm - 'GCorp' which now provides content management
services in the area of Telephony (Mobile and
Basic) and Media (Advertising, Radio and
Television. Ms. Sial left the class with the firm belief
that the only way to do great work is to love what
you do. She also impressed on the importance of
the thought "If you haven't found it yet keep looking.
Don't settle. And as with all matters of the heart you
will know when you finally find it."
Our second alumnus speaker for the day was Mr.
Vikram Bhatt. He has 16 years of professional &
entrepreneurial experience having sailed in two
boats for the large part of his professional journey
and finally opting to focus full time on his
entrepreneurial journey with Enrich Salons in May
2011, which has a current spread of 54 outlets
across different states in India. He said because
there is a risk there is a reward and invoked the
students to think differently, to be quick, intuitive
and involved and to not always believe in structure
or process.
On the second day we had three Alumni as
speakers - Mr. Karan Sharma, Mr. Ashish Kyal and

Mr. Naveen Bachwani . The session started with Mr.
Karan Sharma, the Vice President in the Digital
Media & Technology group at 'Avendus Capital',
India's leading mid-market Investment Bank. He
gave an insight into the Venture Capitalists funding
the budding entrepreneurs. He talked about
incubators and Angel investors in India, the
evaluation process by VCs for retail companies in
India and abroad, the different stages of
investment in India and abroad.
Our next speaker was Mr. Ashish Kyal began the
session by sharing his own journey from
professional to entrepreneurial world, speaking
about his experience from his stint with Lehman
brothers and Nomura to finally starting his own firm
- 'Waves Strategy Advisors Pvt. Ltd.'- an
independent research house providing trading and
investment advice using Elliott wave & technical
analysis. He encouraged