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The Mandi Blog-Communication skills and creating a Personal brand

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Business Communication and Creating a Personal Brand An industry insight by Mr Nikhil Kulkarni co-founder of techdarwin.com About the Speaker Mr Nikhil Kulkarni is a NITIE alumnus with an experience of 10 years in the consulting industry with KPMG through campus placements of NITIE. He explained about the career insight into the consulting industry and the importance of creating a personal brand. He went on to follow the path of becoming an entrepreneur and founded techdarwin. His company fills a unique gap in the market no company provides integrated planning and booking portal. His company was focussed on B2B and now is also in process of providing B2C. His Journey started in 2004, he said he was an entrepreneur before starting his company but now he was doing it for his own firm.  India need such entrepreneurs for its Aatmanirbhar Bharat Mission and Make in India mission . To be a Job provider and not a Jobseeker . NITIE MahaMandi 2020 in its first fully virtual event in its 16...

Apeksha Haldia Zyaka ka Tadka|#ZaykaKaTadka #NITIE #entrepreneurship|#NitiePrasad|#MIG

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Mandi Interest Group   Apeksha Haldia ma’am is founder of Zayka Ka Tadka visited the NITIE campus virtually on Independence Day at the inauguration of 16th Mahamandi event of NITIE, to talk about her entrepreneurial journey and inspire the students. Ma’am told us about her Journey. How when she entered the campus in 2007, she did not have any idea about being an entrepreneur. She told us the challenges she faced. There were twin problems on how to get an idea and how to generate funding. She said that idea can be anything from selling bottles, cardboard boxes. Just like a mobile phone cover, someone manufactures it and are doing quite well for themselves. About the funding she told about the FDIs are investing in start-ups and to start a business you don’t require a huge amount of funding. What you want to research can be done on your mobile phone worth less than Rs.10000. She gave the example of herself, that Zyka ka Tadka does not have its own studio and the shoot in people...

Swadeshi Mandi keynote by Mr Abhay Jere

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 Swadeshi Mandi On the occasion of 74 th  Independence Day of the nation, Mandi Interest Group of NITIE  organised its Virtual Annual Flagship event-  ' Swadeshi Mandi 2020'  on the  15 th  of August 2020.  On this auspicious occasion   Mr Abhay Jere, Cheif innovation officer, AICTE   was incited as chief guest and the guest of honour was  Mrs.Apeksha Haldia, Founder, Zyka ka tadka & a NITIE alumna. This was part of annual trademark field-based events-' Mahamandi '  to promote business acumen enterprise development and help develop customer insights and sales techniques among the students. This year it was 16th edition of Mahamandi and first to be in completely online mode. Mr Abhay Jere, CIO, AICTE told us about the importance of innovation in India. He gave the example of global innovation index in which India has moved significantly from 79 in 2014 to 52nd rank. So we have made significant improvements in ...

Swadeshi Mandi- The Maheshwari sarees| 15th Aug|#NitiePrasad|MIG|#VocalForLocal

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 The Mandi Blog  Maheshwari Sarees Swadeshi Mandi-VocalForLocal 1/12Mandi Sir Revolution On this Independence Day , Let us Come together and celebrate the Aatmanirbhar Mission of the government. In these VUCA times Countries, companies, people world over have come to realise the importance of being self-reliance and to disassociate themselves from the single supplier viz China. Our Prime Minister has raised the importance of Khadi, the revival of local art forms that were lost due to the colonial atrocities. Make in India now need to become Aatmanibharta for Bharat. To be a provider of goods and services to the world rather than serving one.  Mandi Sir has taught us a life lesson to which I feel will guide us not just in the short term but during our whole life. These tough times have taught us to important lesson of not just being free in terms of freedom of mind but in our actions. Every MBA student must have faith in the concept of 1/12 Mandi Sir.  In this Pro...