Last year, a motivated group of students felt the need to demystify the entire journey of entrepreneurship. Through the process, they wanted to understand how an entrepreneur behaves in various stages of a start-up and what learning the student community could absorb from the experiences of top entrepreneurs. And so emerged HTSAS, the flagship lecture series organized by the Entrepreneurship Cell at IIMA and supported by CIIE. As a part of the series, we invite 10 successful entrepreneurs every season. The entrepreneurs invited in 2016–17 shared their experiences and also focused on different stages of a start-up journey: Ideation, scaling, building tech products, building non tech products, building enterprise, funding, growth stage concepts, etc.
The following speakers spoke on the various aspects of entrepreneurship last season.
· Sanjeev Bikhchandani — Infoedge — Life of an entrepreneur
· Raghunandan G — Taxi4Sure — Idea and team
· Girish Mathrubootham — Freshdesk — Building product for customers
· Sahil Barua- Delhivery — B2B & Value Chain
· Ritesh Agarwal- Oyo Rooms — Growth & Scaling
· Anand Daniel — Accel Partners — Start-up Funding & Legal Aspects
· Tarun Mehta — Ather Energy — Redefining competition and manufacturing in India
· Yashish Dahiya — Policybazaar — Building for an Enterprise
· Kunal Shah — Freecharge — Evaluating a start-up
· Radhika Aggarwal & Sanjay Sethi — Shopclues — Later stage advice
Review video of season 1 is available here: https://youtu.be/q5iBauElXm4
HTSAS 2.0 2017
The entire HTSAS series is available on Youtube and has a significant following with a combined viewership of around 1.5 lakh. It is on its way to becoming an authoritative series on Entrepreneurship in India. Since the life cycle of start-ups has already been discussed and is available online, this season the focus of HTSAS is on sector sweeps, i.e. getting entrepreneurs from various sectors to talk about the challenges & opportunities in the particular sector.
The first speaker was Paritosh Gupta of Zoomcar, who talked about the mobility & transportation sector. The series is now also broadcast live in order to spread the message across the country, so make sure you’re following us on our YouTube channel.
