Dear Members,
IEEE Madras
Section Entrepreneurship Initiative is partnering with Startup Grind Chennai to host Kumar Vembhu (Founder, Go Frugal | Former President & COO, Zoho) for a session at IIT Madras Research Park on June 24th 2016.
The collaboration is an initiative of IEEE Madras Section Entrepreneurship & Innovation Initiative.
About Startup Grind:
Startup Grind is a global startup community educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. They host monthly events in more than 150 cities and 65 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Startup Grind Chennai was started around 18 months back, and has built a community of over 600 members. They have monthly / once in two-month talks with renowned entrepreneurs and investors to discuss both their experiences and journey’s as entrepreneurs, as well as their take on the current startup eco system in Chennai, their advice to entrepreneurs starting out, etc. They have hosted people such as Naru (Angel Investor), Suresh Kalpathi (AGS, SSI, Angel Investor), Chitra Ravi (EZ Vidya), Raghu (Taxiforsure), Murugavel Janakiraman (Bharatmatrimony), among our speaker line-up in the past. More details can be found on http://startupgrind.com/chennai/
Why should you attend?
- Opportunity to connect with well-known entrepreneurs and investors
- Network with the Startup community
- Be part of a growing global startup community
About Kumar Vembhu
Kumar Vembhu (Founder, Zoho & Go Frugal) started Vembhu Systems with his brothers which was later renamed to Zoho – they scaled Zoho to a global giant without any external funding. In 2004, he stepped down as President and COO of Zoho and started Go Frugal. His new venture is an innovative standpoint of sale solution for all retail shops and restaurant businesses and has over 25,000 active clients. He scaled this venture from scratch again without any funding. Previously he worked for HCL and Qualcomm for a total of three years.
Registration:
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-chennai-presents-kumar-vembu-go-frugal-zoho#/
Early Bird (Till 09 June 2016):
IEEE Members: INR 225 (Use IEEE
SG as discount code. IEEE member number will be asked for at the Registration Desk)
Non-IEEE Members: INR 300
Late Bird(From 10 June 2016):
IEEE Members: INR 300 (Use IEEE
SG as discount code. IEEE member number will be asked for at the Registration Desk)
Non-IEEE Members: INR 400
Venue: IIT Madras Research Park
When?: 24 June 2016 | 6 :30 PM
Regards,
Nivas Ravichandran
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Initiative – IEEE Madras Section
Young Professionals Coordinator – IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific)