NE8 Startups launch seminar for NE India entrepreneurship development
NE8 Startups *
NE8 STARTUPS / SEMINAR
Seminar on entrepreneurship development was conducted by NE8 Startups I Assam Team on the
July 2016. The event was attended by entrepreneurs from the region and also representatives of
various government/pvt and start-ups from Guwahati, especially. The theme of the seminar was
focussed on entrepreneurship development in the Northeast India region.
With Guwahati, making
headlines in the national media for being selected as one of the smart cities from the region, so
strategically training related to entrepreneurship & skill development are being focussed at all po
ssible levels. Among the seminar themes were: "Current startup scenario in NE region" by Rhiddhis Chakravorty (Assistant Editor-Yourstory Media, followed by "Fostering innovation in the NE region" Swapnanil Talukdar (Chief Ambassador, NE8 Startups) and "Scaling up ventures in Northeast India"
Seema Jangid (Partner, Explorer & Adventure) concluded with "Media's role in covering NE Startups"
Mahmud Al Hasan (Founder, Chief Editor-The Assam News) followed by interactive sessions.
The newly-launched startup accelerator for Northeast India NE8 Startups has grown
at a positive rate with tremendous response from the startup community in the region.
NE8 STARTUPS / TEAM
Founded by Riddhinil Roy, a serial entrepreneur and also CEO of connec8ive+ a campus dashboard
platform, NE8 Startups has now grown to a combined force of 15 core team members.With Aman
Bajaj, CEO-Jiffy Rooms as cofounder for NE8 Startups has helped in extensive outreach. Swapnanil
Talukdar, an Innovation scholar awarded by Hon’ble Pranab Mukherjee (President of India) also is
associated with NE8 Startups, as ambassador to help promote entrepreneurship among higher sc
hool and college students at all levels, especially in NE8 Startups Foundation programmes.
The opeerations team headed by Anisha Das and with Shreya Kar,Manisha Das and Sumit Roy as incharges
took to the entire team management and are extensively in talks with state/central govt and priva
te authorities,institutions related to entrepreneurship & skill development in the entire Northeast
region. The team memberships under foundation, are now open and one can apply by registering
in the NE8 Startups website/app at: http://bit.ly/2946KZI
NE8 STARTUPS / COMMUNITY
The vibrant community platform at NE8 Startups web platform is a social network for entrepreneurs, mentors and aspirants in the startup domain.With better interaction facilities, one-on-one chat
enabling the future entrepreneurs from the region to also communicate with like minded people
on the platform is a step forward to utilise the regional, geographical diversity and collaborate together on the initiative.The community platform also showcases various start-ups from the Northeast
India region and the initiatives they are undertaking.Also included are the startup media aggregator
links that enables reading articles from the best of startup media in the country and the resources
NE8 STARTUPS / OUTREACH
The NE India-based exclusive startup accelerator is operational across the eight states of the north
east India, comprising consortium of start-ups from: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim
Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Manipur.
Across the outreach centres have been set up in public-
private partnership at Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai where lot of entrepreneurs from NE region are
settled, on permanent or temporary basis.The outreach team comprises of a flat structure with state
heads and operation teams separately for the states. Currently the regional offices are in Guwahati
and Imphal, to cater extensively for queries and consulting related to entrepreneurs from NE region.
Helpdesks set up also are telephonic and further more info can be accessed at: http://bit.ly/28KLe8Y
NE8 STARTUPS / PLATFORM
The startup accelerator platform NE8 Startups operates on both web platform and app.The recently
launched android app on the Google Playstore is the first of its kind from the region dedicated exclu
sively for the entrepreneurship development in the region. Any entrepreneur or startup can utilise
resources, as on NE8 Startups app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wNE8startups
The entire launched web platform NE8 Startups, is fully responsive on mobile and desktop versions &
works effectively on slow and in average internet speeds as well, live at: http://ne8startups.com
NE8 STARTUPS / VISION
The initiative has been started to encourage start-ups, first generation entrepreneurs and also uplift
the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the North-east India region.The founding team strongly believes th
at with proper mentoring, startup culture and also funding resources allotment from state-central go
vt or pvt angel/VC funds, start-ups from the region can flourish to be sustainable businesses and ma
ke the youth job creators not job seekers.
Although the effort needs wide public-private partnership
and industry-academia connect, with a well chalked-out plan NE8 Startups is providing the future of
entrepreneurship in the region, right now. The vision of NE8 Startups being to remove any excuses of
resources lacking in the region and instead providing all entrepreneurs,creators and innovators with
a complete resource list focussed on tech, media, legal and design domains alongwith a well-guided
mentor approach. Team NE8 Startups and its stakeholders strongly believe in: #FutureIsNow
http://ne8startups.com
* NE8 Startups wrote this review for e-pao.net
Writer can be contacted at ne8startups(AT)gmail(DOT)com
This article was webcasted on July 11, 2016.
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