Alpha-IEEE Entrepreneurship Summit

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The IEEE Madras Entrepreneurship and Innovation Committee in association with SRM IEEE Student Branch organized ‘ALPHA’- The IEEE Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 on 18th March,2017.It was an initiative taken along with MGA (Member and Geographic Activities).).It included a
great line up of dignitaries alongside Dr. HR Mohan, (the Vice chairman of IEEE Madras section), Mr. Nivas Ravichandran (Young Professional coordinator for Region 10) and the SB counsellor, Dr.Vijayakumar (HOD of EEE at SRM), heretofore portraying bandwagon of panel discussion. Besides catalyzing a social shift to encourage entrepreneurship, Alpha also aimed at fostering grassroots innovations, innovations in hubs and collaboration with different organisations.

The sessions & features included:
*Building a Consumer Hardware Product in India
*Workshop: Validating your idea
*How to build a minimum viable Product
*How to get the first few customers
*How to build an Online Marketplace start up like Uber?
*How to raise funds for your start up?
*Panel Discussion: Start-up vs. Bootstrap Funding

Thus the event was a great success with the spirit of entrepreneurship alight and everyone attending the summit was enlightened as well as deeply motivated by the guest speakers.

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Alpha succeeded in engaging the budding entrepreneurs and starts up enthusiasts with the fellow entrepreneurs and offered them a remarkable exposure to the start up world. It provided the participants with the opportunity to meet experts from the different start-ups, interact as well as to
network with them. Moreover, it offered an ideal platform for those who had a preset idea in mind and wished to build a startup out of it.

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