From the Editor’s Desk President Message CONVERGE May 2012 Dear HDCF Members and Friends, its my pleasure to welcome you all to the 1st issue of Converge, HDCF’s official Monthly Newsletter. Since inception, we have been having regular interactions both online and offline modes. These interactions have resulted in fruitful networking within members. Such collaborative avenues have lead to tapping synergies and getting inspiration from successful business initiatives. Soon, HDCF is going to celebrate its first anniversary. To move forward and benefit all members of HDCF, we are launching this Newsletter to showcase some of innovative interventions, creative business ideas, path-breaking service models, etc. among the members. with warm wishes, Praveen Kumar Machavaram Editor-in-Chief The sole purpose of initiating HDCF is to provide enduring growth opportunities to all members, learn new ways of thinking, discuss challenges encountered in day-to-day business and exchange views. We have been inviting successful entrepreneurs from different business domains to share their knowledge as part of our HDCF Confluence Meets. One of the objectives of HDCF is to promote entrepreneurship to create employment and improve national economy. Accordingly, we have launched an exclusive Investment Advisory Committee (IAC) to support funding requirements of the group members and planning to conduct entrepreneurship trainings soon. Trainings and IAC are going to be our top priorities for next few months. Hoping to see you participate with full cooperation. Venkat Reddy TC President – HDCF Contents From Editor's Desk President Message HDCF Events Kisan Raja's Success Story HDCF Focus Groups Chiru Speaks, Guest Column CEO Capsule, Guest Column Reva-Thee, Guest Column HDCF - JNTU Entrepreneurship Development Programme CONVERGE - HDCF Newsletter Business. Collaboration. Success www.hdcf.in HDCF - JNTU Entrepreneurship Development Programme 4 - 9, June 2012 Hurry up, Register today!
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From the Editor’s Desk
President Message
CONVERGEMay 2012
Dear HDCF Members and Friends, its my pleasure to welcome
you all to the 1st issue of Converge, HDCF’s official Monthly
Newsletter.
Since inception, we have been having regular interactions
both online and offline modes. These interactions have
resulted in fruitful networking within members. Such collaborative avenues
have lead to tapping synergies and getting inspiration from successful
business initiatives.
Soon, HDCF is going to celebrate its first anniversary. To move forward and
benefit all members of HDCF, we are launching this Newsletter to showcase
some of innovative interventions, creative business ideas, path-breaking
service models, etc. among the members.
with warm wishes,
Praveen Kumar MachavaramEditor-in-Chief
The sole purpose of initiating HDCF is to provide enduring
growth opportunities to all members, learn new ways of
thinking, discuss challenges encountered in day-to-day
business and exchange views. We have been inviting
successful entrepreneurs from different business domains to
share their knowledge as part of our HDCF Confluence Meets.
One of the objectives of HDCF is to promote entrepreneurship to create
employment and improve national economy. Accordingly, we have launched
an exclusive Investment Advisory Committee (IAC) to support funding
requirements of the group members and planning to conduct
entrepreneurship trainings soon. Trainings and IAC are going to be our top
priorities for next few months.
Hoping to see you participate with full cooperation.
Venkat Reddy TCPresident – HDCF
Contents
From Editor's Desk
President Message
HDCF Events
Kisan Raja's Success Story
HDCF Focus Groups
Chiru Speaks, Guest Column
CEO Capsule, Guest Column
Reva-Thee, Guest Column
HDCF - JNTU EntrepreneurshipDevelopment Programme
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HDCF Events
HDCF Confluence VII – 24th March 2012
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Just a day after the Telugu New Year Ugadi! An
informative and informal evening filled with fun and
frolic! …is how one would describe the HDCF
Confluence-VII event of 24th March 2012.
As the Chief Guest, Mr. Suheim Sheikh, Founder CEO and
MD of SDG Software Technologies & Founder of President
of The Yacht Club of Hyderabad, spoke about his
interesting entrepreneurial story right from succeeding in
promoting his unique software to the passionately
working towards helping underprivileged children in
sailing.
This time HDCF Confluence-VII took a traditional turn with
Dr. CVB Subramaniam, a Vedic Astrologer and Head of the
Department of Astrology at Potti Sri Ramulu Telugu
University, Hyderabad speaking on the impact of the new
year on businesses, based on the Panchamgam, the
traditional Telugu Calendar in an interactive session
entitled “Business Panchangam”
From the inspiring anecdotes of persistence and resilience
narrated by Mr. Suheim Sheikh to the motivating advice by
Dr. CVB Subramaniam, the evening focused on the
importance perseverance in business initiatives, impact of
giving to the welfare of society, being helpful to others
and most importantly believing ones self!
Later the members have participated in interactive
networking with each other and enjoyed sumptuous
dinner and cocktails.
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“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself” - Henry Ford
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Success Story
The saga of Kisan Raja’s stupendous success
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Kisan Raja is a revolutionary device (invented and manufactured by Vinfinet Technologies Pvt.
Ltd.) that help bring the fruits of technology to rural India – particularly to farmers and
unemployed youth. The solution allows farmers to remotely control the agricultural motor
using their mobile or landline. An IVRS (Interactive Voice Response System) in local language
helps in making selections for switching the motor ON or OFF. Farmers also receive voice
alerts for various situations like Faulty Power Supply, Motor not Starting, Lack of Water in the
Well/Bore, and any attempt of Device / Motor Theft.
Kisan Raja is a vastly superior innovation in terms of functionality, safety and user-
friendliness, when compared to low-end ‘auto-starters’ available in
rural areas. Launched in July 2010, this patent- pending innovation has been
recognized by many leading institutions.
Currently, the device is being targeted at influential farmers in the village who
have larger Land holdings. This select group of people subsequently
influences decision-making of the majority.
Winner of Sankalp Awards 2012
Winner of India Semiconductor Association (ISA) Technovation Awards 2011 in the ‘OEM Consumer – Best Indian
Startup’ Category
1st Runner-up at Samsung Innovation Quotient conducted by Samsung and CNBC-TV18
Winner of Wantrapreneur 2011 (‘Startup – Agri’ category) conducted by Villgro, Chennai
Among the Finalists of Mahindra Spark The Rise
Among the Winners of the 3rd Indian School of Business (ISB) iDiya Challenge
Winner of Navkriti 2011 conducted by NITIE (National Institute of Industrial Engineering)
Mr Vijay Bhaskar Reddy hails from rural Andhra Pradesh. He completed his education from IIT Madras before
working for companies like Intel and Cisco. He always wanted to do something for the farmer community. He got
the idea of Kisan Raja, when he saw his brother going to the field in the middle of the night to switch ON/OFF the
irrigation motor pump set. This was the moment when Mr. Reddy decided that he would create an easy-to-operate
technology solution that would improve the lives of farmers. He had joined Vinfinet Technologies Pvt. Ltd. as CEO
which was already established to provide career-oriented IT trainings for unemployed rural youth and launched an
IVRS based motor controlling and monitoring application.
Awards and Recognitions
About Vijay Bhaskar Reddy
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Reva-TheeGuest Column by Revathi Turaga
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“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the
game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed!’
The above statement of Michael Jordan reflects beautifully the attitude of ‘never give up’! Time and again we have
heard that it is not how one falls, but how one gets up again that counts towards one’s success. Failure is often
viewed as the opposite of success, and refers to the state or condition of not meeting the desired outcome.
However, I look at FAILURE as “Free Again to Innovate and Learn Until Reaching Excellence”! Here’s how...
One of the first stories I remember hearing about a never give up attitude is that of a king, who, after his kingdom
was conquered by his enemies, absolutely exhausted and de-motivated, went into hiding in a forest wherein he saw
a tiny spider attempting to climb out of a crevice. The crevice was too steep and too wide for the spider and the
moment it made two steps forward, it just slipped one step backwards. It looked like it could never reach the top.
However, the king noticed that the spider didn’t give up. It kept slipping, but kept keeping on... until it finally
reached the top of the crevice on its way to its freedom. Seeing this, the king suddenly felt free too! Motivated, he
gathered his few troops and, marched against his enemies and saved his kingdom. Sometimes, when one fails, one
needs to realize that they are free from the earlier attempts, to start again, all fresh and anew!
We have all heard the wonderful adage “try try again till you succeed!” However, what we do not realize in history is
that every scientist who has tried again and again has not tried the same way again and again. For example, let us
say you are walking on a road and there is a big rock in the way that blocks your path. You can’t pass. Now, the
next time you walk, would you walk the exact same path again? Or would you walk around the rock or find a way to
move it or change the path itself? We would obviously do one of the latter. Hence, when one fails, it is not that one
has to simply try again, however one has to analyze what happened and creatively try another method. One needs
to learn and innovate!
Martin Luther King defined excellence as ““If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even
as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so
well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
Excellence can be attained only through continuous learning after learning through failure after failure. Though
everyone fears failure, those in search of excellence embrace their mistakes and learn from them for further growth
an implementation. An entrepreneur may in fact regard failure as a very positive experience: as a prerequisite to
success, a chanced discovery, a profound teacher, a future value-adder, a provider of new direction, an enhanced
motivator, a path to achievement and even as a relieving liberator towards excellence.
Grow from Failure
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" - Harold R. McAlindon
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Reva-TheeGuest Column by Revathi Turaga
… continued
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We’ve been taught from an early age that failure is a bad thing. When we do poorly on tests, we receive a failing
grade. When a business goes bankrupt or dies, it is said to fail. We were constantly reminded every day that failure
is something negative. But today, most entrepreneurs and scientists and business leaders are starting to
understand the positives of failure! History is adept of thoughts from various scientists such as Thomas Watson
who said “If you want to succeed, double your failure rate” and Edison who said “I have not failed. I've just found
10,000 ways that won't work”.
In today’s scenario, failure is such a common occurrence it should come to be expected. So, ensure that you
develop thicker skin if failures and setbacks seem to bother you. It is very important you learn from every failure
and that the same failure isn’t repeated or experienced twice as this could lead to unnecessary waste of time and
money and even possibly fatal mistakes. Thus, choosing to look at FAILURE as “Free Again to Innovate and Learn
Until Reaching Excellence” means that even though each idea we try may not work, it still would help to bring us
that much closer to an idea that does. To that end, experiencing failure becomes a very essential and necessary
Please send your success stories, unique initiatives, ideas and views to our official mail
Editorial Team will look into the same and try to accommodate them in the forthcoming monthly issues
accordingly. However, we will not entertain any communication in this regarding.
In this entire process, Editorial Team’s decision is final to accept, alter, prioritize, publish or reject the articles or
information.
Grow from Failure
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude” - Ralph Marston
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT CELL
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
Kukatpally, Hyderabad – 500 085
ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
04th June, 2012 to 09th June, 2012
REGISTRATION FORM
Name of the Applicant
Father/Husband name
Educational Qualifications
Date of Birth
Work experience
Occupation
Address
Contact No/s.
Email
Your Strengths
Weaknesses
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Name of the Bank and Branch Name : _________________________________________
Please indicate your Entrepreneurial/ Business Interests and also indicate why are youspecically interested in Entrepreneurship : (Attach a copy of your Business Plan/ Ideasalong with the application)
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and Raghunath Akasam
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Assessment of capital requirement for business
Debt and equity options
Equity investment - investors' considerations
How to be investment ready
Post investment obligations
Process of raising investments
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Chiru SpeaksGuest Column by Chiranjeevi Maddala
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It worked! Expression was the fundamental element that brought a BIG change in my life. Somehow I was heavily
inspired by the movie, . I keep a copy of this movie with me always and I watch it at least once in a week! One
thing I liked from that movie is
It really works. When the mind is free, we get to feel the flow of energy within. But, how to make it free? Well, one has to
find his / her own way to make it free. The basic concept here is throw all the things out.
The process that worked for me was the ‘expression’. Whenever I expressed my thoughts as they were, I felt empty and I
was filled with new energy? Whenever I stored them for a long time, it made me feel heavy and dull!
Is it so simple? Well, its not! But when you find the right channel to express, it becomes easy! Two things that helped me
a lot were, talking and writing.
I see a scientific connection here also. When the thoughts are inside your mind, they don’t have a specific shape or
structure. ONLY when you express, they take a shape and become useful. The more clear and structured thinking we
have, the more focused we become and that helps us to take the action.
This is not a new discovery but I strongly feel that many of us just don’t do it! Just think, how did you know about a
particular person? By all what he / she told you and showed you, right? The same principle works for business also, each
business should ‘express’ to be reached. People just don’t buy your services/products, just because you are selling them.
Your business should have a personality and it should ‘talk’ to your customers.
Go Express Yourself!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chiranjeevi Maddala is a CEO & Founder of SWEET Interactive. Besides an entrepreneur and designer,he is a writer too.
The Matrix
“Free Your Mind”.
Express It All, It Works!
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CEO CapsuleGuest Column by Seshadri Padigala
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Thanks to Ministry of Corporate Affairs in India for conceptualising the idea of “Sustainable Business Growth of
SMEs”. I thought it is right time to share my perspectives with SMEs on the approach they could take for working
on sustainable business growth based on my personal experiences. SMEs strategy could include making the
following as five pillars of “Sustainable Business Growth”.
Actions by SME’s will only make the difference to their own business. Let us all strive for Sustainable Business
Growth of SME’s leading to “Inclusive Growth” in India
