25th January, 2007: Mr.Rohit Agarwal, Chairman and CEO of techTribe Networks, visited IIFT Delhi to interact with the students of the MBA (IB) program, on the invitation of the Entrepreneurship Club of the institute. techTribe Networks, is a software company that enables professionals to express their identity online and connect with others to enhance their professional careers.
A seasoned entrepreneur, Rohit has been a founding member of successful startups, led marketing, sales and business development functions at established software companies throughout his 17-year career in enterprise software. Prior to techTribe, he has held the positions of Vice President, Strategic Marketing at Baan Company (NASDAQ : BAANF), Founding VP of Marketing and Business Development at Webify Solutions (acquired by IBM in August 2006), Founding VP, Marketing at Commercial Ware (acquired by MICROS / Datavantage), and VP, Product Strategy at newScale. He has also held Sales and Marketing Management Positions at Remedy Corporation (NASDAQ : RMDY, acquired by BMC), and FileNet (NASDAQ : FILE, acquired by IBM).
This lecture provided a real life insight into how innovators connect in Silicon Valley
-CONNECT to discuss Ideas
-CONNECT to build Founding Teams
-CONNECT to raise Capital
-CONNECT with the Customers
-CONNECT with the Environment
-CONNECT to bring Companies to Market.
The following topics were touched upon in the interaction:
-What experiences / demands led to the ideas & how does one finally settle in on one?
-What attitudes and skills are necessary to prepare for success?
-How does one embrace and learn from the surroundings – the eco-innovation system?
-What roles do failure and mistakes play in eventual success?
-How does one collaborate with others to build on the idea and deliver results?
-What role does capital play in innovation and how to leverage it best?
Mr. Agarwal also addressed the batch on how he started tech tribe and the vision he has for the firm. How the team at tech tribe was built and the challenges they faced.
In the Q&A session that followed Mr. Agarwal addressed questions from both the batches and dealt with several very important issues, viz.
-How to ensure that you don’t lose your passion for your prime pursuit even as you are busy doing a job or other things that may be different?
-The benefits of constantly striving for innovations and looking out for ideas?
-Inviting ideas on a problem you want to solve, getting “consultants” (friends, boss, family) to give you ideas for free by requesting their advice and guidance?
-Spread the word about what you want to do in your “net” so that when the opportunity arises you get to know of it?
-What to do to build a right team--- hire people you’d like to work for?
Many other Questions were dealt with by Mr.Agarwal, in a session that was mutually appreciated by him as well as the students.
Special Thanks to: Arka Bhattachrya
2 comments:
Guys, this is phenomenal..keep it going..and looking forward to plenty more CRC interactions!!!
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