2009年12月16日星期三

IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd. - Surviving & Winning in a Downturn

New Delhi, India, Friday, January 31, 2009: IndiaMART.com architect and CEO, Dinesh Agarwal, Smile Interactive’s Chief Mentor, Mahendra Swarup, Contest2Win founder, Alok Kejriwal and Info Edge Ltd MD & CEO, Mr Sanjeev Bikhchandani – all stalwarts in their field, afresh came calm on to a accepted belvedere - an accident organized by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) hosted at the India Habitat Center on 30th January in New Delhi.

The accident was abounding by a majority of ambitious entrepreneurs, start-up enthusiasts and adventure capitalists. Speaking on ‘Surviving and Winning in a Downturn’, a console discussion, an optimistic Dinesh Agarwal said, “The online business is about confined your barter well, at the appropriate price, and admitting all breach down. And if the markets are adverse mayhem, you have to accept to ambush on abeyant opportunities by realigning your access and rethinking your strategies.”

Using his all-inclusive acquaintance over the accomplished decade, Sanjeev Bikhchandani - accepted for his acclaimed aperture Naukri.com said, “One should accept that there will be no allotment and again adjudge to go advanced with their start-up. Rather than absorption on dream projects, it's acute to accent on allotment in the next division or aural the accepted year. If your activity does not agreement allotment so early, again one needs to realign the business and administration strategies.”

Hosted by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the accident brought calm leaders who accept apparent the improvement of the Internet afterwards the dotcom access and emerged winners; and able entrepreneurs who accept in the bartering abeyant of the Internet. Answering a catechism as to whether a business should opt for online, offline or amalgam model, Mr Agarwal said that it depends absolutely aloft the blazon of business archetypal in convenance and the strategies in aftereffect at that accurate time, because prevailing bazaar scenario.

Fielding a catechism as to the appropriate time to alpha a new venture, an optimistic Mahendra Swarup said that if he could acquiesce to alpha a company, he would do it now, in the downturn, as it is the best time to go advanced with any new affectionate of alpha up.

Dinesh Agarwal added, “Sun Tzu writes in his book The Art of War, ‘when in peace, be at war’. It’s true; recession is absolutely the time if you can accumulate all the ammunition you will charge already things improve”. The technocrat started IndiaMART.com in 1996, survived the dotcom access in 2001, and is today active India’s better online B2B marketplace.

Also brought to the table were case studies of companies that backward afloat during the burst, and what was learnt from their experiences.

About IndiaMART.com
IndiaMART.com is India's better online B2B marketplace. It connects Indian suppliers with all-embracing and calm buyers through business directories, online artefact catalogs, buy-sell offers, printed media and barter shows participation.

Founded in 1996, the aggregation has a attendance in over 100 cities pan-India. With about 1000 employees, IndiaMART.com offers an all-encompassing ambit of value-added articles and casework to over 500,000 associates and over 5 actor all-around buyers above industries and verticals.

IndiaMART.com has won abundant awards over the years including Red Herring 100 Asia & Emerging India and the aggregation has been broadly covered by media such as CNBC, BBC, BusinessMoney, CNN, Businessworld, Economic Times, Financial Express, etc.

About TiE
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a accumulation of acknowledged entrepreneurs, accumulated executives, and chief professionals with roots in the Indus region. There are currently over 12,000 associates and added than 1,800 allotment associates in 52 capacity above 11 countries. TiE’s mission is to advance entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, and education. Dedicated to the blameless aeon of abundance conception and giving aback to the community, TiE’s focus is on breeding and adorning our next bearing of entrepreneurs.

Besides its flagship event, TiECon--the better able appointment for entrepreneurs, TiE now has a advanced ambit of programs including Special Interest Groups (SIGs), TiE Institute, Deal Flow Meetings, TiE Young Entrepreneurs, and, a lot of recently, TiE Women’s Forum and CEO Forum.

For added information, amuse visit: www.indiamart.com/press-section/

Media Contacts:

IndiaMART.com
Arun Tyagi
Marketing & PR
Mobile: +91-9711003832
Telephone: +91-120-3911000
Email: aruntyagi@indiamart.com


TiE
Geetika Dayal
Executive Director, New Delhi
Mobile: +91-9810539848
Telephone: +91-120-4243322
Email: geetika@tienewdelhi.org

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