Hosted in Hinglish | 2.5 Hours

About the workshop

Do you quit your job and then start your own company or simply start and wait for the revenues to flow in? Helping you make this decision is Sonali Verma, the founder of a travel company. Sonali effortlessly takes you through the ideation, planning and execution process of a new business while helping you tackle everyday challenges that small business owners face. In this workshop you will learn:

• Planning: A quantitative analysis of what you need to start a company 
  – Your startup idea as a problem solver
  – Understanding what impact your product or service will bring
  – Breakdown of the initial investment and funds
  – How to do ground research; primary and secondary
  – Learning the 4 Ps of marketing (online /offline)
  
  

• Execution
  – When and how to get started (blocking a name, hiring)
  – Do you need a website for your company?
  – Defining timelines (personal and team targets)
  
  

• Expansion
  – What is the right time to leave your job and do your business full time
  
  

• Bonus: Managing a start-up venture with a full time job
  – How I worked with a start up to help lay the foundation for my entrepreneurial life
  – Successes, failures and time management with my full time corporate job
  – How you can get to know yourself and your skills better 
  
  

About the host
Sonali Verma is the co-founder of Chindi Safar, a two-year-old, new-age tour planning start-up that organises affordable trips to various parts of the country. In this workshop, she talks about the practical aspects of executing a start-up idea based on her own experience of running a company. This session will help build confidence in your own idea and encourage you to think out of the box and take the plunge to begin your start-up career!  

You can find Sonali on Instagram as unfoldingwaves, where she documents her personal travel adventures.

What you should carry along
Notebook and pen