Follow up on my earlier post on women entrepreneurs, here's a roundup of interesting events on the subject:
- Tehelka has a really good article on how adversity produced opportunity for women in Kutch to become entrepreneurs in the sale of embroidered clothes and other traditional Gujurati crafts. A very interesting note:
- "After the earthquake, craft also became a valuable rehabilitative tool, not just for economic rehabilitation but also for expressing their resilience and emotions through their creativity."
- CNBC's TV18 (yes, the one with my favorite anchor - Shereen Bhan) has a program called Young Turks. My repeated attempts to land up on the show have resulted in naught, and now I've given up. However, they're doing a very interesting series of shows on women entrepreneurs - right from party and event organizers, interior designers, to someone who organizes Bombay Heritage Walks (thanks to Astha J for the tip). So if you get the channel on your cable, do check it out - airs every Thursday at 7:00pm.
- Moneycontrol.com has a very interesting article for women on the advantages of being on your own, and ideas for various opportunities and how to tap them.
- The FICCI Ladies Organization made a trip over to Russia (yes of the oil barons, and mafia, and Mercedes' jams at crossways) to promote foreign trade, which has been stagnating at $2 billion for more than a decade now.
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Hi Intrepid,
I happened to chance on your site today and was pleasantly surprised at what i read, especially since I am a woman entrepreneur and need some advice. I (an MBA with a decade of exp.), along with my mother (an educationist) had opened a preschool that has done exceedingly well over the last 2 yrs and we have been happily repaying our bank loans:) We are now getting greedy...and plan to open a senior secondary school...Just one roadblock - the funding to the tune of Rs. 50 crore...While we are confident we can make a success of our venture...we are trying to figure out how to arrange the sources of funds...Any advice?
Ruchira: Great to hear from you, and about the success of your venture with your mom! And let me rephrase the "getting greedy" part to "getting ambitious". You are a very lucrative venture for a VC (Venture Capitalist) or PE (Private Equity) to enter and fund. But you got to be careful. Getting the actual funding can be a very time-consuming effort. You will first need to build a proper business plan. See if you can get hold of the book, McKeever's How to Build a Business Plan. You got to show what you would do with the extra funding. Your banks may not be keen to sponsor Rs. 50 crore, since they would need collateral, and that would be difficult to come by. But you could look at part debt (from banks) and part of it from VCs. Some good VC's would be found on this list http://www.nenonline.org/jsp/resources/resources.jsp
Why don't you email me offline, with details of your business, and maybe we could do an interview of yours on the site?
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