This is one of the most amazing entrepreneurial program to be hosted in Ahmedabad as it brings together all the awesome entrepreneurial communities and organizations doing good work for aspiring entrepreneurs in Ahmedabad.

eChai Ventures also happen to be one of the partners for this awesome program!

wWhere, founded by Ritam Bhatnagar,  is a new way of exchanging locations and addresses with anyone having an smartphone. Kudos to Ritam for being instrumental in organizing this special evening talk with Ronnie Screwvala.

icreate – International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology – An inspiring ecosystem for next generation entrepreneurs. icreate’s mission is to Facilitate new age entrepreneurial pursuits of youth that focus on innovative applications for wealth generation, employment creation and global competition.

TiE Ahmedabad is part of a global network of entrepreneurs which mentors, supports and facilitates the growth of new enterprises.

GDG Ahmedabad is the official Google Developers Group in Ahmedabad . It is an open group for people who are interested in Google's developer technology; everything from the Android and App Engine platforms, to product APIs like the YouTube API and the Google Calendar API, to initiatives like OpenSocial.

GBG ( Google Business Group ) Ahmedabad is a community where entrepreneurs and start-ups from Ahmedabad share and learn web technologies.

Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry ( GCCI ) Youth Wing connects youth through exclusive programmes like Lecture series, Mentorship, Social Entrepreneurship and Incubation center. Youth Wing aims to create leaders for business and society.

VentureStudio aims to nucleate an ecosystem of innovation that accelerates the development of Ahmedabad, Gujarat to create a national and global impact. VentureStudio offers a product and business creation program for Entrepreneurs /Engineers/ Innovators/Designers at Ahmedabad University, Gujarat, India. Venture Studio is collaborating with high ranking Center for Design Research at Stanford University, USA to create Venture Studio with the backing of investors from Mumbai. 

Startup Saturday Ahmedabad hosts Entrepreneur/startup meets on very second saturday of the month at CIIE, IIMA Startup Saturdays, a part of Headstart Network, are held on the second saturday of every month. 

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Dream With Your Eyes Open - An evening talk with Ronnie Screwvala

Ronnie Screwvala is a first generation entrepreneur who started his journey by introducing India to multi channel TV viewing, by launching the first cable TV network in the country. From being a smalltime cable operator in Mumbai in the early 1980s, he went on to build a Media and Entertainment conglomerate spanning Television, Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, Games and Digital, that he listed in 2005 for a market cap of $ 55 million and that The Walt Disney Company bought in 2012 for an enterprise value of $1.4 billion.

Onto his second innings now, Ronnie is driven by his interest in championing Entrepreneurship in India and is focused through his venture fund - Unilazer Ventures, to build his next set of ground up businesses in high growth and impact sectors. 

Ronnie is also passionate about Social Welfare and is active along with his wife Zarina as Founder Trustees of The Swades Foundation, which operates with the single minded focus of empowering one million lives in Rural India every 5-6 years through a unique 360 degree model with verticals in Water, Sanitation, Health, Nutrition, Community Mobilization, Education, and most importantly Agriculture & Livelihood, to lift them out of poverty permanently.

In Dream With Your Eyes Open,  Ronnie Screwvala details his vast experiences and the myriad lessons learnt from more than two decades of building some successful (and some not-so-successful) businesses, bringing clarity to a quickly changing business landscape and making an impassioned case for the role of entrepreneurship in India's future.

If you’ve ever had an impactful, disruptive product or business idea, been curious about owning your own business, or have already taken the first steps on your entrepreneurial journey, this is the book for you.

If you’ve been running your own company for the last seven-odd years, and scale, brand and value-creation are some of the crossroads for you now, keep reading.

If you think your parents or family would freak out if you dared to suggest ditching your safe haven—your professional job—to pursue your dreams of owning your own business, relax. Better yet, share this book with them.

If you’re an experienced professional ready to take the plunge into starting your own business or committed to growing into an effective leader in the company you work for, read on. This book hopes to demystify failure, inspire success, raise ambitions and help you think big.

Dream With Your Eyes Open shares failures and triumphs, thoughts and anecdotes in a simple narrative that could help you gain better insights into entrepreneurship and give you a fighting chance when it comes to realizing your dreams in a David-versus-Goliath world. Only then will we succeed in harnessing the country’s enormous entrepreneurial potential with the most energetic and passionate people in the world, alive with fresh mindsets, optimism and hope.

This book is about ‘it can be done’, not ‘I did it’. It’s all possible. Just dream your own dream—and when you do, dream with your eyes open.

The book is replete with real-life incidents and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from his career that include building one the largest toothbrush manufacturing operations in India, pioneering cable TV and bringing home shopping to the country, and creating one of India's most innovative and diversified media entertainment companies—one that gave the country its first daily soap, Shanti, and breakout channels like Hungama and Bindass, as well as a movie studio that boasts films like Rang De Basanti, Dev.D, Jodha Akbar and Barfi. Ronnie brings to life the basic tenants of leadership, taking risks, building scale, finding the right idea and knowing when to back it and when to exit.

Venue : J B Auditorium, Ahmedabad Management Association.

Date : 26th June, Friday Time : 6 pm on wards.

This event is open for all. No registrations required. The evening talk by Ronnie Screwvala will be followed by an interesting dialogue with the participants.

For more details you can check the FB Event page : Dream With Your Eyes Open

Also tell us which is that one dream that you saw with your open eye and fulfilled it ? Do share your stories with us in comments. You never know it may be showcased at the event :-)

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