India-Africa Entrepreneurship Summit is here
Dear Fellow Entrepreneurs,
The fourth edition of the India Africa Entrepreneurship Summit is less than eight weeks away.
If you have not registered so far, please do so here!
As we finalize the agenda, curate a list of speakers and constitute the panels, we are constantly thinking on how we can make this edition as meaningful as possible.
One way to begin is to start at the beginning. What is our purpose? Why should the India-Africa Entrepreneurship Forum exist? Is there a better and more productive way to achieve the same objectives? Are we benefiting personally, socially, and professionally?
In bringing ideas to fruition, we entrepreneurs are continuously and even unknowingly shaping the future of our societies, nations and humanity at large. This might seem pretentious coming from people who fail 99.99% of the time. Yet, those tiny, insignificant, and often unrecognized contributions—the tinkering, the modifications—do add up to something significant even if it is not immediately obvious or visible to us.
Seven of the top ten corporations in the world with a combined market cap of $14 trillion started out with sketchy ideas and unsure aims. Amazon began as an online bookseller. It makes money from cloud computing. Microsoft started with an operating system for microcomputers, only to find itself leading the generative AI race.
There is joy in meeting fellow entrepreneurs and listening to their stories- achievements, failures and enduring dreams. These stories bring about connections. The connections in turn lead to collaborations and business transactions.
How can we reinforce and strengthen these connections?
While we enjoy meeting once every year at the Summit, can we meet each other more regularly and “do more stuff” together - one on-one, in small groups also?
Launching this newsletter, “India Africa Business Brief”, currently in your email box, is an effort in that direction.
Upcoming Interactions and Partnerships
Various interactions are scheduled over the next few weeks. We will keep you posted on our social media handles and through this newsletter.
We also have a solid team in place: Emmanuel, Pooja, Shubham, Uche, and Navin, who will facilitate these conversations within the forum.
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